Posted on 10/11/2009 8:27:50 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Debate Follows Bills to Remove Clotheslines Bans By IAN URBINA
CANTON, Ohio — After taking a class that covered global warming last year, Jill Saylor decided to save energy by drying her laundry on a clothesline at her mobile home.
“I figured trailer parks were the one place left where hanging your laundry was actually still allowed,” she said, standing in front of her tidy yellow mobile home on an impeccably manicured lawn.
But she was wrong. Like the majority of the 60 million people who now live in the country’s roughly 300,000 private communities, Ms. Saylor was forbidden to dry her laundry outside because many people viewed it as an eyesore, not unlike storing junk cars in driveways, and a marker of poverty that lowers property values.
In the last year, however, state lawmakers in Colorado, Hawaii, Maine and Vermont have overridden these local rules with legislation protecting the right to hang laundry outdoors, citing environmental concerns since clothes dryers use at least 6 percent of all household electricity consumption.
Florida and Utah already had such laws, and similar bills are being considered in Maryland, North Carolina, Oregon and Virginia, clothesline advocates say.
The new laws have provoked a debate. Proponents argue they should not be prohibited by their neighbors or local community agreements from saving on energy bills or acting in an environmentally minded way. Opponents say the laws lifting bans erode local property rights and undermine the autonomy of private communities.
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Yes.
The sad part isn’t the global warming loons, it would be the local loons that outlawed it in the first place.
Live and let live.
I see no problems with allowing people to use clotheslines.
However, if they chose to live where it isn’t allowed, they need to accommodate.
i.e., undermine the iron fist of a retired shopkeeper turned mini-Hitler
Stupidity in motion.
That said, I rarely used my clothesline over the summer. “Global Warming” made it too cool and wet. The clothes would mildew before they dried.
Looks like soon we will all be modern stone age families just like the Flintstones, all to save the Earth from global warming which isn’t happening anyway, and if it was, we couldn’t do anything about it.
“Opponents say the laws lifting bans erode local property rights”
How about my right to do what I please on my property? Or “show me your Constitutional right to not be offended”?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
Anyone who moves to one of these planned communities is a fool anyway. They willingly sign their lives away, and then they complain that the planning committee “won’t let them fly a flag”, or “won’t let them plant roses”, or any number of other things that they themselves agreed in contract not to do. I have NO compassion for their plight.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
Wait a minute, it’s a trailer park? Are you kidding me?
“Opponents say the laws lifting bans erode local property rights and undermine the autonomy of private communities.”
Oh the irony.
Where’s the outcry against large, flat screen TVs? They’re the real energy wasters.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
My mom used to put the laundry out to dry, except winter. Nothing was soft but it saved on electricity. My parents were afraid of returning poverty. The old tree still has the crease from the clothes line it enveloped.
Didn't California outlaw flat screen TV sets larger than a certain size for that reason? I know the bill was introduced into the California legislature a few months ago but lost track whether it passed and was signed by the governor.
Jack
“Reporting from Sacramento - Concerned that the growing popularity of big-screen televisions could make it harder for California to keep pace with electricity demand, state energy regulators are poised to crack down on energy-guzzling sets despite opposition from a powerful electronics trade group.
The first-in-the-nation TV efficiency standards would require electronics retailers to sell only energy-sipping models starting in 2011. Even tougher efficiency criteria would follow in 2013.
The California Energy Commission is slated to unveil the new standards today, followed by a 45-day public comment period. The commission is expected to approve the measure in early November”
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-bigtvs18-2009sep18,0,1102526.story
One of my jobs when i was a kid was to bring the clothes in from the clothes line. I loved the way they smelled. Clothes lines are good!
http://reviews.cnet.com/green-tech/tv-consumption-chart/
"Samsung HL-S5679W 56" 149.85 Watts"
As I write this i am sitting next to a table lamp with a 3-way bulb. At the moment I have it set on "High", 150 watts.
Now, if I can just get someone to trade the lamp for a Samsung HL-S5679W 56" flat screen TV, I can say that I have "gone green" and saved energy!
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