On Tuesday, February 27, 2018 at 1:43:02 AM UTC-7, Julie Bove wrote:
> "Dave Smith" > wrote in message
> ...
> > On 2018-02-26 1:24 AM, 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.
> >
> > I can't see the point of offering advice. Your friend told you to look at
> > the meter. That would tell you how much power it is using. It would take
> > enough brains to look at it with and without the oven on to compare the
> > consumption rates, but you won't do that.
>
> I don't know how your meters work. Not even sure how mine works except that
> there are needles that go back and forth. That tells me nothing.

Julie, you must have been raised by cave-men...you are certainly naive about
many aspects of modern life. The Internet has answers for most of your questions
and could be your prime source of information IF you were capable of discerning
truth from fiction and really wanted to spend the time.
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