Residents near NYC will not be able to obtain access to NG in new construction. The gas pipelines serving the area are maxed out to capacity and new state regs prevent the building of new pipelines. This means new construction will need to rely on oil, LP or electric for heating.
If the regs were put in place to decrease the "carbon footprint,' then they will prove to be counter-productive: heating with electricity is atrociously expensive, so it will be avoided. Oil burns with more co2 production than NG, and LP will have to be trucked in- thus ultimately burning more fossil fuel than with the piped NG.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/03/...y-con-ed-says/
Be sure to read the Comments after the article. Many written by people knowledgeable in the energy field, they seem to provide some important details. I'm not knowledgeable enough to judge their veracity or applicability, but they sound good....Any critique?
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