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He has to be off, way off. He's not using $4/mo on an Echo at 10c/kWh. We pay more than double that rate and our electric bills were frequently under $50/mo before we got an EV.

The one thing I learned using my kill-a-watt a few years back, is that "vampire draw" is likely something that only applies to VCRs from the 80s. I plugged it into a power strip full of USB and Apple chargers, and the consumption over a week is stunningly close to 0.

Every small device I measured was utterly insignificant, despite all the articles over the past decade telling you to plug all your chargers into a power strip and flip it off when not in use.

Bigger things I can understand. Our "smart TV" almost certainly draws tens of watts in spying^H^H^H^H^H^H standby mode.