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[quote=Anonymous]Well, you could go with a fact-based approach.

I googled the cost for you and found a breakdown of costs on a web site. See https://michaelbluejay.com/electricity/laundry.html

This guy says the electricity cost of drying your laundry depends on whether you have electric (49¢) or gas (34¢).

The cost of electricity to wash per load is based on the water temperature.

Wash/Rinse Setting  Electrical Use of kWh/load  Cost per load

Hot / Warm                4.5  kWh                         68¢
Warm / Warm             3.5  kWh                         53¢
Hot / Cold                   2.8  kWh                         42¢
Warm / Cold               1.9  kWh                          29¢
Cold / Cold                  0.3  kWh                          4¢

So, with your 2-3 loads per week, 
1 cold = 4¢ + 49¢ = 53¢
1 hot = 68¢ + 49¢ = $1.17
1 warm = 29¢ + 49¢ = 78¢

Per week, if you have an electric dryer, that's $2.48. Multiply that x 4 weeks = $9.92.  (Subtract 1.80 from that if you have a gas dryer.)  So, assuming this complete lunatic would think that if you did half your current amount of laundry, that would be a "reasonable" amount, I'd slap a five dollar bill on the counter to keep the peace and say "here you go for the extra kilowatts I'm using per month. Suck it." [/quote]

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