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Citizen poll results: Do you support the BC government's plan to ban new standalone gas heating appliances by 2030?

The poll ran from January 25 to February 1. Of the 945 votes, we can determine that 455 are from within the community.
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Prince George Citizen polled 945 Prince George Citizen readers and asked the question: Do you support the BC government's plan to ban new standalone gas heating appliances by 2030?

The poll ran from January 25 to February 1. Of the 945 votes, we can determine that 455 are from within the community. The full results are as follows:

Yes, let's use hydro more for our heating 1.54% local, 1.80% total    
Yes, we have to reduce our carbon emissions 5.49% local, 5.61% total    
Not sure 8.35% local, 6.88% total    
No, it'll cost too much 26.81% local, 27.41% total    
No, we don't have the hydro capacity 57.80% local, 58.31% total    
  Local   Total

Results are based on an online study of adult Prince George Citizen readers that are located in Prince George. The margin of error - which measures sample variability - is +/- 3.17%, 19 times out of 20.

Prince George Citizen uses a variety of techniques to capture data, detect and prevent fraudulent votes, detect and prevent robots, and filter out non-local and duplicate votes.