B.C.'s race to a post-carbon economy will change everything

It’s 2030, just 12 years from now.
Your gas-fired furnace is gone, probably your gas stove, too.
The City of Vancouver already has placed extreme carbon standards on builders to discourage gas installations in new buildings. Others will follow.
Electric baseboard heaters? Forget about it. All new homes and many older homes will have heat pumps instead, systems currently used in about five per cent of B.C. homes.
It’s a nifty technology that can extract heat from the air outside &mdas