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Old 07-24-2008, 03:23 PM   #6 (permalink)
Joe_Bloe
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Bucket - '94 Ford Escort Wagon
90 day: 36.46 mpg (US)
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Originally Posted by cfg83 View Post
1 - Use a Kill-A-Watt to figure out my outlet energy usage
2 - Assume worst-case-scenario power plant efficiency for calculating energy usage. For example, if the power plant were a gasoline power plant (verrrrrry unlikely), how much gas would be burned to power my engine block heater for X minutes?

CarloSW2
Why not just calculate the dollar cost, at your electric rates, of the electricity you use for the block heater during the tank, convert that to gallons at the same $/gal you paid, and add that to the tank?
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