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Your original message wasn't clear. I assumed you meant that I was venting CO2 directly into my house, which I am not.
If you mean that I'm generating more CO2 by running my dryer, then you are still mistaken. I keep my house temperature constant. If I weren't running my dryer and venting the waste heat into my house, I would instead be running my heater more, and generating just as much CO2.
Well - you actually ARE. Electric dryers have a HIGHER CO2 footprint than a gas one, some of which is generated by the local heating unit, and in your case vented directly back into your well insulated house. Electrical heat has approximately twice the footprint over direct consumption of gas.
The choices are yours, and I can certainly see your point during those times when you ARE running the heater. It's just one I prefer to avoid when at all possible, in particular during those times when the heat isn't required (most of the year).
[SIZE=3]I read this and wonder what the problem with underwear is. I suspect most of the readers wear them at one time or the other, and are still able to sleep through he night. After all they are nothing but clothes. Some small and others LARGE. I think the HOA should allow the cloths lines and lobby to keep the tight leotards out of the Malls which may keep you awake at night. [/SIZE]
I read the Time article and then hopped onto the NC General Assembly website and promptly wrote an email to my state senator and representative asking that they support their colleague Suzanne Harvey on legislation that would make those clotheslines proscriptions unenforceable. I had no idea this was even being discussed in the legislature.
If the realtors lobby is against clotheslines, then build up your endurance and prepare for a fight. They're powerful and they are not our friends.
Clotheslines will make the housing market tank? LOL. It's already tanked in most of the country. Must be something besides clothes drying on the line that caused that, do you think?
Rep. Suzanne Harvey plans to introduce a bill in 2008 that would say hanging laundry outside cannot be fully prohibited. "We all have to do at least something to decrease our carbon footprint," Harvey says. "And once you start seeing your nice neighbors hanging clotheslines, that can take down stereotypes." WRITE TO YOUR REPRESENTATIVES. They need that kind of ammunition. We all SHOULD have a choice. And I agree with Rep. Harvey, we are not taking conservation seriously enough. We need to be way more responsible about being green (and way less snobby).
[SIZE=3]I read this and wonder what the problem with underwear is. I suspect most of the readers wear them at one time or the other, and are still able to sleep through he night. After all they are nothing but clothes. Some small and others LARGE. I think the HOA should allow the cloths lines and lobby to keep the tight leotards out of the Malls which may keep you awake at night. [/SIZE]
Agreed....My SpongeBob SquarePants boxers are HIGHLY decorative. I can't imagine why people object to them fluttering in the wind.........
All kidding aside though - They're a great idea if they can be tucked into the back a little (just so they're not "in your face"). I've never found them to be "value-depressing", although there are the occasional TMI moments (like - I didn't need to know that he/she wears THAT)....
HOAs are a two-edged sword. My wife and I just moved from a golfcourse community in Florida. We had an HOA and hated the picky little rules (no clotheslines, no sailboat on trailer on the side of the house, no backyard fence since we backed up to the course). But one day the cable company dumped a 5' tall cable/HD cable box and modular slab in our frontyard, which btw was a zero lot line (40' x 105') lot. We hit the roof! Our HOA hassled the cable company so bad that the box was gone, and replaced with an in-ground vault within days. So there are two sides. I don't think the cable guys would've listened as hard, or as quickly to my wife and me squackin'. but it was obscene... even the guys who were sent by the bosses to place that box said it was ridiculous.
Mike G. (Durham, soon closing on house in rural Rougemont-- No HOA!!!!)
Ultraviolet (UV-C) light that comes from the sun for free and at no cost to our environment just happens to be a germicide. It kills microorganisms, dust mites, bacteria and fungi. All for free with no side effects. In "light" of that information, I would especially like to hang my underwear on a clothesline....and everyone elses' too.
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LOL. It's already tanked in most of the country. Must be something besides clothes drying on the line that caused that, do you think?
