If your place was built / renovated in the med to late 70s, Washington was massively incentivizing all electric housing as the WPPS nuclear power plants were being built and needed customers to pay for electricity so the state and other bond holder didn't get stuck with huge bills. WPPS was never finished, tax payers ended up paying the bonds and electricity prices have continued to climb.
For more information on the state dictating to the market and destroying the middle class, see the Green policies Inslee has supported (and pay your +$0.50 gas tax increase come January while they outlaw gas appliances in new construction and gasoline powered cars).
Uncle_Bill t1_iqs23gn wrote
Reply to Alternative Heating Options by gallopingants
If your place was built / renovated in the med to late 70s, Washington was massively incentivizing all electric housing as the WPPS nuclear power plants were being built and needed customers to pay for electricity so the state and other bond holder didn't get stuck with huge bills. WPPS was never finished, tax payers ended up paying the bonds and electricity prices have continued to climb.
For more information on the state dictating to the market and destroying the middle class, see the Green policies Inslee has supported (and pay your +$0.50 gas tax increase come January while they outlaw gas appliances in new construction and gasoline powered cars).