Here almost everyone cooks with gas .
The amount of electric power which a family can have at a cheap rate is so small - 3 KW - that you cannot use two different strong electric devices together - oven an drier, or washing machine,...
Of course you can have more, but it becomes a lot more expensive.
Anyway, the most new gas stoves have thermic security devices - mine does not allow the gas to pass unless there is fire.