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Ask Jigar: Where do you actually start when you want to electrify your life? · Energy Empire

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  So with the support of our friends at Octopus Energy, we're
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  launching a new segment called Ask Jigger.
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  Yeah, the idea is exactly what it sounds like.
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  You send in your energy questions, and I answer them on
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  the show. And the ones I can't answer,
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  Jamie answers. And, like, it's stuff you've
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  actually been sitting with. Like, why is my bill double what
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  it was yesterday? You know, should I go solar now
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  or wait? Like, what the heck is going on
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  with nuclear? Right?
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  Why would people possibly, you know, value a company with no
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  revenues at $10 billion? Like whatever is bugging you,
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  I'll give you a straight answer. Awesome.
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  Well, since I'm here, I'm just going to go ahead and go 1st and
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  ask you the first question. With all the talk about
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  switching to electric everything, heat pumps, EVs,
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  induction stoves, that's the one thing I haven't done.
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  Where do you actually start? Like say someone wants to
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  electrify their life, what's the first thing that they should do?
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  Well, I think the first thing I tell people is not to throw out
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  stuff that works. Like it's amazing to me how many
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  people are like, but I'm guilty like I just want to like replace
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  my my stuff with electrify everything.
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  And I was like, your car still works.
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  Don't get rid of it until you're ready to buy a new car, right.
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  Your your air conditioning and heating system still work.
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  Don't get rid of it until you're ready to get a new one.
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  Right on the stove thing. You know, I think that's a
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  personal choice. I don't know if the stoves ever
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  break. At least I've never had one that
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  broke. But like the induction sale
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  thing is hard though. Like it took my it took me three
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  years to convince my wife that an induction stove wouldn't make
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  the food taste different. And we have that vacation house
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  up in Deep Creek Lake, MD. And so we started with induction
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  stove there and she loves it. And so now she's like, this is
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  great. But we have this like really
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  fancy Wolf stove at in our Bethesda house and so like,
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  she's not moving away from that anytime soon.
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  Awesome. Thank you.
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  Great answer and thank you for relieving me and my guilt about
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  my my only gas appliance I have in my house.
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  I'm going to it is a newer stove.
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  I think I'm going to hang on to it.
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  All right, so we want your questions.
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  Submit your question at octopusenergy.com/ask Dash like
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  Hyphen Jigger and the link is in the show notes.
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