zxcvbob wrote:
If you use an electric clothes dryer, you will make up that $37 in a
couple of months. (A gas dryer will take a little longer.) That
energy star washer is probably a front loader, and the clothes will
come out damp instead of wet and they take less than half the time to
dry.

The front loader also only take half as much soap. If you use a full
measure of soap you will "suds lock" it.

In this case, both washers are top loaders.