We like gas here, it's very controllable, not too bad to keep clean,
and, like KateG, I like being able to have a hot drink and a meal if you get power cuts (as we do every now and again).

Incidentally, we bought ours, (in the UK), as a reconditioned one
from the gas company, (they are "snatch-backs", where people couldn't
pay the hire purchase), just a few months old and looked like new.
I don't know if they still do these, ours is 11 years, and still
looks good.
Might be worth asking if you can get anything like this near you if the money is tight.

Cheers

Cattail !