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Thread Number: 90762
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
POD 6/27/2022 |
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Post# 1152617 , Reply# 1 6/27/2022 at 10:04 (666 days old) by DADoES  (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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Post# 1152638 , Reply# 3 6/27/2022 at 15:27 (666 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA) |
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We had the same thing growing up--house built in 1960 in suburban St. Louis. It was a program funded primarily by the local electric utility (Union Electric)...it was an Edison Electric effort (Reddy Kilowatt/investor-owned electric utilities rather than that nasssty socialistic public power). If the builder put in enough electric outlets/circuits then they got a promotional kickback from the local utility. Same thing happened with gas--Blue Flame Homes and/or Balanced Power homes. There are some faintly ridiculous ads out on Youtube talking about this.
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| Post# 1152654 , Reply# 4 6/27/2022 at 19:21 (666 days old) by Maytag85 (Sean A806) | ||
GE may have touted their Live Better Electrically homes, but there’s no mention what you would do if the power were to be out for a few days or how high the cost of electricity would be. It was NOT fun having any power 2 days last thanksgiving, was without power from Thursday to Saturday, wasn’t able to have any thanksgiving dinner or to heat up food so I ended up having to have takeout food instead. I was able to shower since I have a dependable Bradfordwhite gas water heater, but wasn’t able to heat up any food since I only have a electric cooktop and not a gas cooktop. If I had a gas cooktop, I at least would have been able to make some thanksgiving dinner even if it meant no turkey. All electric homes are nice when there are no power outages but when the power goes out, you can’t do anything which is a ROYAL pain especially if it’s thanksgiving time.
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Post# 1152657 , Reply# 5 6/27/2022 at 19:40 (666 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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