This is clearest answer we've yet gotten from @NYGovCuomo officials on how they view push to ban all fossil fuel infrastructure. (Part of this also has to do with wholesale electric markets and how they work, re: emissions/merchant risk.)https://twitter.com/m_jfrench/status/1088176291105386496 …
We should focus on limiting expansion of retail gas use -- i.e. utility gas. Replace oil and gas furnaces with heat pumps while leaving gas, and renewable gas, as a generation-only resource. We need a process of managed decapitalization of gas utilities.
