What's that about carbon footprints?
December 16th 2009 01:36
With all the talk about cutting energy consumption, you'd think municipalities would be all for it if an individual takes it upon themselves and try to cut our ever dwindling energy supplies.
That may not be the case in one southeast Pennsylvania town. A resident in the town of Perkasie, Pennsylvania, has received anonymous messages as well as calls from the town council asking her to stop.
According to Alexander Lee, head of Project Laundry List, a group espousing a reduction of dependence on electric or gas dryers, the states of Florida, Utah, Maine, Vermont, Colorado, and Hawaii have all passed laws to restrict the rights of local authorities to stop residents using clotheslines. On top of that, five more states are considering similar measures.
Lee further argues the adoption of clotheslines could significantly reduce U.S. energy consumption. Would you believe dryer use accounts for nearly 6 percent of U.S. residential electricity use?
principal opponents are the housing associations such as condominiums and townhouse communities that are home to an estimated 60 million Americans, or about 20 percent of the population. About half of those organizations have 'no hanging' rules, Lee said, and enforce them with fines.
Opponents of such steps are often condominiums or townhouse communities which are home to an around about 20 percent of the population in the U.S., which is a pretty sizable chunk. About half of those organizations have rules against hanging wet clothes and go so far as to enforce them with fines!
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Aside from saving a few dollars, I always think things dried in the wind smell a lot nicer!
That may not be the case in one southeast Pennsylvania town. A resident in the town of Perkasie, Pennsylvania, has received anonymous messages as well as calls from the town council asking her to stop.
According to Alexander Lee, head of Project Laundry List, a group espousing a reduction of dependence on electric or gas dryers, the states of Florida, Utah, Maine, Vermont, Colorado, and Hawaii have all passed laws to restrict the rights of local authorities to stop residents using clotheslines. On top of that, five more states are considering similar measures.
Lee further argues the adoption of clotheslines could significantly reduce U.S. energy consumption. Would you believe dryer use accounts for nearly 6 percent of U.S. residential electricity use?
principal opponents are the housing associations such as condominiums and townhouse communities that are home to an estimated 60 million Americans, or about 20 percent of the population. About half of those organizations have 'no hanging' rules, Lee said, and enforce them with fines.
Opponents of such steps are often condominiums or townhouse communities which are home to an around about 20 percent of the population in the U.S., which is a pretty sizable chunk. About half of those organizations have rules against hanging wet clothes and go so far as to enforce them with fines!
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Aside from saving a few dollars, I always think things dried in the wind smell a lot nicer!
Reading over this, even I think it's pretty preposterous and I'm the one doing the writing! Here's the article I found on the Web!
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