Comment by BugsJustFindMe

I always wonder how much saving water and electricity washing dishes actually matters in relation to everything else we do. In the US people run their HVAC basically 24/7 either heating or cooling for a lot of the year. Our televisions, video game consoles, and computers are giant electric space heaters that run all day long. So what's the proportional burden of warming a few gallons of water? And I do mean warming, because people who wash dishes by hand don't make the water nearly as hot as what dishwashers use.