On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 17:52:07 -1000, dsi1 > wrote:

>On 6/26/2011 4:57 PM, Dan Abel wrote:
>> Most people have to pay to heat that tap water. You have to heat not
>> only the water that you actually use, but also all the water you let run
>> down the drain while it was coming up to temperature. Afterwards, you
>> are left with pipes full of hot water, all of which you paid to heat.
>>
>
>Of course someone has to pay to heat up hot water. That wasn't my point.
>At the risk of stating the obvious, I'm trying to save a few minutes of
>heating the water on the stove.

Electric teakettle.