These states are basically begging you to get a heat pump
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Death is coming for the old-school gas furnace-and its killer is the humble heat pump. They're already outselling gas furnaces in the US, and now a coalition of states has signed an agreement to supercharge the gas-to-electric transition by making it as cheap and easy as possible for their residents to switch.
Nine states have signed a memorandum of understanding that says that heat pumps should make up at least 65 percent of residential heating, air conditioning, and water-heating shipments by 2030. (Shipments" here means systems manufactured, a proxy for how many are actually sold.) By 2040, these states-California, Colorado, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, and Rhode Island-are aiming for 90 percent of those shipments to be heat pumps.