On Monday, February 26, 2018 at 1:24:43 AM UTC-5, Julie Bove wrote:
> I was chastised the other day by a friend of a friend for using my oven. I
> said that I liked to use it a lot in the winter for baking and such because
> it helped warm up the house and that meant I could often keep the heat off
> when it was on. She told me that it is very costly to run an electric oven
> and that I shouldn't use it. Told me if I didn't believe her to go look at
> my meter next time it was on. I can't see that would help me as I am not in
> the habit of looking at my meter so don't know what it does to begin with.
>
> Anyway... Is there any truth to this? This person has told me a lot of other
> things that were wrong.

If you use electricity as your primary heating source there's no difference.
I use natural gas as my primary heating source, and it is cheaper (for me)
than electricity.

Cindy Hamilton