Washington Post story points out that electric toilets now grace 68 percent of homes and account for 4 percent of household energy consumption. Recent innovations have made monthly costs for the toilets’ electricity use decrease to only $2.59. And even in some nicer public washrooms, certainly at all major hotels, you can find them. Whether you choose to make this investment in technology and comfort (there likely is an i-Pod doc somewhere) depends upon your willingness to part with as much as $4,000. I took the place with the much more old fashioned type of loo- a big or little flush option and the water from the tank also served as a little handwash basin.]]>