In article i5Tbi.21246$xq1.10947@pd7urf1no, Noozer wrote:
I just had a thought...

Pushing everyone over to CFLs from incandecent bulbs is supposed to save a
lot of electricity, right?

Well, how much power does it take to cook a roast for a family of five in
your average electric oven? Bet we'd save a lot more money if we forced
everyone over to microwave/convection systems.

Since most ovens are not electric and on any given moment there are
usually planty of lightbulbs and no ovens running, I think lighting is
something to go after more than ovens.

The biggest consumer of electricity is electric motors in climate
control equipment and refrigeration equipment - compressor motors, fan
motors and blower motors.

Lighting is second to that group. It appears to me that third place is
electric heating.

I would think that the cost of electric stoves makes a lot of people
do much of their cooking with microwaves and convection ovens more
than electric stoves anyway.

- Don Klipstein )