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It’s 2030, just 12 years from now.

Your gas-fired furnace is gone, probably your gas stove, too.

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The City of Vancouver already has placed extreme carbon standards on builders to discourage gas installations in new buildings. Others will follow.

Electric baseboard heaters? Forget about it. All new homes and many older homes will have heat pumps instead, systems currently used in about five per cent of B.C. homes.

It’s a nifty technology that can extract heat from the air outside — even when it’s cold — and it reduces carbon emissions by 98 per cent compared to gas.

Industrial processes fuelled by cheap natural gas have switched to electricity, especially natural gas extraction and LNG processing, which are now fuelled mainly by natural gas itself.

Only collectors will still have gas-powered cars and trucks, like your weird neighbour with a mullet and a 69 Firebird. Whatever, who wants to drive for half an hour just to find a gas station anyway?