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Default Solar ovens (was Microwave baked potato?)

Omelet wrote:
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> In article >,
> T > wrote:
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> > In article >,
> > says...
> > > In article >,
> > > T > wrote:
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> > > >
> > > > That's ok, last place I was in had an electric water heater. But during
> > > > the winter my electric bill would shoot up to $350.
> > > >
> > > > Here the electric bill hovers between $80 and $112 winter/summer.
> > >
> > > Mine runs about $170.00 to $270.00.
> > > Depends on how cold I want to keep the house.
> > >

> >
> > Ouch! Electric heat huh?

>
> Electric cold.<G>
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> >
> > Well, come winter the oil bill will be interesting. It's a 150 gallon
> > tank and prices are hovering around $2.50 a gallon right now. A tank
> > lasts about a month and a half.

>
> Damn.
>
> My house is all electric. On purpose...


It's not a big deal really, when you have an oil bill for heating you
have a low electric bill. Spend $100 on oil instead of electricity, it
mostly balances. Of course in the summer you're using electric for A/C,
but you are using little or no oil during those months.