Clothelines

This article was written on November 9, 2007 but never published by the local paper.
The people of Ontario are applying additional pressure on the province to lift the idiotic municipal ban on clotheslines in the back yard; bans to please the sub division developers who feel a clothesline in a back yard tarnishes the sub division.
The province has admitted energy conservation and climate change are in their list of peak priorities but have a tendency to pay no attention to the benefits gained from the use of free wind and solar energy vs energy used by clothes dryers and air pollution discharged from the same dryers.
The following is an exert from an article I wrote on clotheslines back on August 4,2007; "Drying laundry outdoors rather than wasting energy adding to power bills smart residents make use of free wind and solar energy to dry their clothes that have huge benefits for the environment. Is one not conscious of the fact a typical clothes dryer consumes 900KW-hours of energy each year and discharges 840 kilograms of air pollution and greenhouse gases? Steer clear of all this by hanging laundry on a clothesline but, I should mention watch out for a lawsuit as in numerous municipalities in Ontario it is against the law to hang laundry out to dry. The law may change, Queens Park has the power to pull the law banning the use of clotheslines."
The Liberals' McGuinty has been admitting clotheslines vs; energy conservation is a concern but has exposed lack of enthusiasm to do something. Back in 2003 the Liberals passed an energy conservation leadership law, after their election that included a clause which allows the province to do away with local bans on clotheslines forced by developers but the Liberals have never exercised the clause which means clotheslines in some communities are against the law. The bottom line being people are without doubt looking for ways to save electricity and money meaning this way makes a lot of common sense?