Got into an interesting discussion on what matters in communication.

Nuance gets missed a lot when people tell half-truths. For instance, an astonishing amount of folks say they want gas as their heating system because of power outages.

Most gas-fired systems still need electricity to operate. Which, anyone who has lived with one during a power outage, already knows.

That half-truth is that a gas-fired system can more easily be supplied with emergency power. But most people don't have that.

@TechConnectify That's interesting. Why is there no way to use them without electricity? Where I live there's no need for home heating, so the only gas we use is either for stoves or showers (as in the shower pipes are heated by direct flames in a gas heating unit just before reaching the showerhead) and these devices can be ignited without electricity (though they do usually have electric sparkers for convenience)