On Sat, 31 May 2008 20:13:49 -0500, Jules wrote:

Yep, very common around here. Most hotels have outlets in the parking
lot to plug the block heater into, too (power's cheap enough that they
just provide it as a free service, I suppose)

A block heater isn't going to take a lot of power, a couple of hundred
watts at most. Some what less than trying to charge a 50kWH battery in a
few hours...

--
Cheers
Dave.