Electric, it can't explode or gas you to death. Also, if you don't have gas lines it's less likely your neighbors will have gas and explode to burn your house down.
That's always been a slightly irrational fear of mine. Whenever I was visiting relatives that had gas ovens and ranges, I swore I was always smelling gas.
Maybe you were.
And no $30 monthly bill even if you only use $1 of gas that month.
I hated electric until I had it in an apartment once. It wasn't so bad (old-style spiral open-air elements) and you could turn the heat way down, whereas with gas it would still boil over small things at the lowest setting.
And for a oven, gas just sucks. Electric gives good radiant heat (infrared), which helps brown things well. Though I mostly just use a toaster oven with the quartz glowing elements and convection. Quick, and can still hold a full-sized pie dish. I use it multiple times a day.
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