On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 09:03:26 -0500, jmcquown >
wrote:

>On 2/26/2018 5:40 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>> "Sqwertz" > wrote in message
>> news
>>> On Sun, 25 Feb 2018 22:24:33 -0800, 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.
>>>
>>> <yawn> Just another nightly troll because you seem to have nothing
>>> better to do with your time.
>>>
>>> Billions of people use [electric] ovens, Julie.* Have you no common
>>> sense of your own that you need to ask this stupid ****ing shit here?
>>> Jesus, woman!
>>
>> I know they do. I just couldn't figure out why she was so upset about it.
>>
>>
>Tell her to mind her own beeswax. Unless she's paying your electric
>bill I don't see why she should be upset.
>
>Jill

More to the point is the power electric clothes dryers use, very high
consumption and probably more in use than the oven.