# Dryers: gas vs electric redux 2022

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dryers-gas-vs-electric-redux-2022/957728>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 13, 2022, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dryers-gas-vs-electric-redux-2022/957728 "2022-01-13T14:22:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2022, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dryers-gas-vs-electric-redux-2022/957728/21 "2022-01-15T12:25:09Z")

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> [@iamthewalrus\_3](#):
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> Back of the envelope: as long as it’s economical to run gas-fired power plants, gas dryers will be more efficient than electric ones.

> [@echoreply](#):
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> Cheapest long term: gas dryer

In the end, this is what I was really looking for.

I’m only willing to entertain the idea of standard gas or electric. No heat pumps or clothes racks or Mr. Fusion 3000 drying rays. 😉

But it was interesting to learn about the heat-pump ones.

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_As long as the tangent was brought up and the thread is largely done…_

- Clothes lines suck in almost everyway possible. Labor intensive, crappy job of drying, occasional bird poo strikes, doesn’t work in the winter or the rain. Tough on windy days and I live in a windy bayside town. I do not want to use clothes racks in the house. It is 2022 not 1968 in NYC.

- Any dryer needs to have the capacity to match the washer sitting next to it. Anything less is just too inefficient by far.

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**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2022, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dryers-gas-vs-electric-redux-2022/957728/22 "2022-01-15T12:42:35Z")

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> [@What\_Exit](#):
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> Gas creates less static? _(Can I stop using dryer sheets?)_

Interesting. I have a gas dryer. I don’t use dryer sheets. Even if i had a lot more static, i wouldn’t, because i don’t like the smell, or how they make things feel. But…i really don’t have issues with static. I had attributed this to rarely taking the laundry out of the dryer immediately. But maybe it’s because it’s gas?

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**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2022, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dryers-gas-vs-electric-redux-2022/957728/23 "2022-01-15T12:44:16Z")

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> [@What\_Exit](#):
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> Can I stop using dryer sheets?..

(with gas)  
Not in my experience.

mmm

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