Posted by Mike (WA) on April 01, 2012 at 10:48:56 from (75.172.121.76):
In Reply to: Re: Gas Dryers? posted by LJD on March 31, 2012 at 17:33:12:
I did go through an analysis on a building that is presently unoccupied, so minimal electric usage- $28 "basic" fee, some more for security lights, and 4.9 cents a killowatt for usage. They charged 3 taxes as a percentage of the sum of the basic, plus security lites, plus usage, that amounted to about 12% of those items. Which is less than I thought it would be.
I still think you have to look at the "marginal" cost of each commodity, when making this decision. The original poster has both gas and electric service already, each with its own fees, taxes, basic charges, etc.- so the decision on how to power a dryer would only involve more electricity/ less gas, or vice versa. But your other post made it clear that there is such a big disparity in cost per BTU between gas and electric, that gas would always win.
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