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Article: DESPITE RATE BOOST, NATURAL GAS HEAT STILL CHEAPEST, EXPERTS SAY ENERGY CONSULTANT SAYS ELECTRICAL BILL ALMOST TWICE AS HIGH FOR INSULATED HOME.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- August 3, 2000
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Natural gas remains the least expensive way to heat your home, even with this week's 27.5 percent rate increase, energy experts say.
They caution consumers to think twice before switching fuels for home heating.
``You'd be an idiot to use this an excuse to convert away from gas,'' said energy consultant David Baylon, with the Seattle energy consulting company Ecotope Inc.
By his estimate, an average monthly electric bill of $102.08 to heat a new, well-insulated 2,500- square-foot Seattle home is almost twice what a consumer would pay to heat the same house with gas.
The homeowner heating the same house with oil pays an average $77.58 ...