My in-laws have a natural gas well on their property.
Because of this, they have an unlimited supply of free natural gas! They run everything possible on gas, including their oven, dryer, water heater, barbecue grill and gas furnace. There is no worry over the cost of heating. Their lake house is always too warm, my family knows that no matter what time of year the people I was with and I visit my partner’s parents, we’re going to sweat profusely. They don’t use the money they save on heating bills to invest into central air conditioner. They suffer through the Summer with nothing but electric box fans! Although the summers in our local area are fairly short, the humidity is awful. The temperature occasionally soars into the mid nineties. The lake house can get extremely hot and stuffy. As soon as the weather begins to cool off, they turn up the thermostat and run the gas furnace. On those afternoons when the temperature is mild enough to open the windows and love some fresh air, they blast the gas furnace. My family has supper on Thanksgiving and Christmas at my in-laws house, however even if the outdoor weather is snowy and down to sub zero temperatures, the people I was with and I pack shorts and T-shirts. All of us argue over who gets to take the garbage out to the garage where it’s cooler, but when my mother-in-law isn’t paying attention, the people I was with and I try to sneak a window open or lower the thermostat. By the time the people I was with and I leave, I normally have a exhausting headache… I don’t suppose why my in-laws need to keep their lake house so warm. It’s so uncomfortable that the people I was with and I never stay all that long.