Eli5 if electric vehicles are better for the environment than fossil fuel, why isn’t there any emphasis on heating homes with electricity rather gas or oil?

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Eli5 if electric vehicles are better for the environment than fossil fuel, why isn’t there any emphasis on heating homes with electricity rather gas or oil?

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> why isn’t there any emphasis on heating homes with electricity rather gas or oil?

Isn’t there? Maybe it varies by where you live, but I’ve seen plenty of recommendations to use heat pumps for heating (those operate on electricity). More so than recommendations to drive electric car.

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