WHAT IS THE MOST EXPENSIVE APPLIANCE IN YOUR HOUSE FOR ENERGY?

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A tech columnist looked around his home and wondered, 'All these TVs and cable boxes and computers and computer gear and chargers for various adapters have to be sucking up a lot of power, right?' What are the biggest power hogs in his home. The heavily used agglomeration of PC / two monitors / printer / hard drive / speakers in my downstairs study costs a bit more than $10 a month. The PC in our bedroom costs about $6 a month. The upstairs laptop? Less than $1. So what were our apartment's power hogs? The lights and the dryer. I estimate our lights cost us around $30 a month, nearly a third of that from a chandelier with eight bulbs. Then there's the dryer. I don't know exactly how many watts it uses, but estimate it's costing us at least $25 a month. How do you guys save energy in your home? With the rising cost of oil, we need to spread the word about the most energy wasting things in the household.