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Old 03-26-2008, 11:54 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by AndrewJ View Post
I'd treat a hotter thermostat as a slight, unquantifiable gain. The theory's all there, but it's just not something that I'd expect to actually be able to see in my gas logs.

Sure you may see a difference if you bump up the temps a few hundred degrees, but at only +10º you aren't likely to see much.
Thats pretty much what I was thinking.
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