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Default How do you keep your electric bill under control?

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ImStillMags > wrote:

> On Oct 29, 1:55*pm, notbob > wrote:
> > On 2010-10-29, sf > wrote:
> >
> > > Unfortunately, I think the biggest electric hog is the TV and that's
> > > not getting turned off any more than it is already.

> >
> > Nope. *TVs do not comsume much.


That's what I thought. However, I did a Google, and some use quite a
bit. I couldn't get details, though.

> >*Motors (refrigerator) and
> > non-fluorescent lighting and electric heating are the big hogs.
> > Microwaves, too.


> So are computers and chlothes driers. Chlothes driers are the worst.


Some computers are pretty energy efficient. Our clothes drier uses very
little electricity. However, it heats using natural gas.

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