Re: 9 year old fridge: repair or replace?

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From: Logan Shaw
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:04

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Seerialmom wrote:
> Know what would be nice?  A site like fueleconomy.gov for appliances.

http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=refrig.display_products_html

> I mean how much more efficient are the refrigerators now than they
> were 9 years ago?

It doesn't appear to go back 9 years, but if you have an existing fridge
you want to compare, you can measure its performance with a Kill-a-Watt
tool or something.  (Just leave the fridge plugged in through the
Kill-a-Watt for a few days and do the math.)

   - Logan

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