If the goal is the help the environment, then it might be more beneficial to use the appliance until it reaches end of life.
This. Reminds me of the cash for “clunkers” debacle that took plenty of perfectly good ICE used cars off the market.
At the end of the day, the point of this post is simply that utility companies should be a service for the community and not run for profit.
Especially this.
I’m on oil (and a renter so it’s not like I have a choice) but a friend of mine is on a heat pump and loves it. She has backup heat too, a wood stove and I believe either heating oil or gas. But most of the time she runs the heat pump and the wood stove.