Recently I made use of the local laundromat. Now while the jury is still out as to whether or not laundromats lower your IQ, it did get me thinking of something else.
Now the reason I was at the laundromat was to dry my clothes. After endless days of rain, and a need to wear certain items again, I buckled on my usual ban of clothes driers. The reasons I don’t have a clothes drier are simple. The waste a hell of a lot of electricity, and they are lazy. Lazy you say? Well yes, people these days take the quick and easy way out of things and just pop clothes in for a quick dry, with out thinking of the damage they are doing to the world.
So here is my plan, ban driers from homes.
If a drier is there, people use them. If you make it that they would have to go to a local laundromat to use a drier, then the use of them would decline. Now I hear what you are saying. What about the petrol to get there, what about mums with babies who need nappies, what about, what about, what about. Well it all just comes down to time management. For me, this was the first time I have used a drier for personal use in about 15 years. I did use the one at work to dry my uniform after getting drenched one day, but that was outside the circumstance of using it simply because I’m lazy.
So what do you all think? Good plan, or just a crack pot idea from a cow?
Written, typed and authorised by Daisy Cow.
I think banning driers for personal use in ones home is leaning ever so slightly towards nannystateism. The assumption that because one is available [in the home] we would just use it is possibly a generalisation based on your own experience? For mine, I have a drier, but it is used only when it is most diabolically wet, which as I reside in a tropical area, can be for sustained three month periods sometimes. After a while, even the line in the garage cannot cope with the demand and the humidity, so as a defence against public indecency, one must use the drier.
You are correct when you note that they use lots of electricity which is bad. However, this use of electricity becomes evident when the friendly power company presents their account for payment. Personally, I dislike viewing excessive amounts on this document and therefore manage my power use accordingly, which includes devolving the drier to essential use only.
What the above is probably trying to demonstrate, is that market forces will provide the necessary balance, and regulation should be avoided.
Maybe we should go back to having to put a penny in the meter to keep it running. Then people might think a bit more about their electricity use. Of course if we just reduced our use of coal, brown coal especially (brown is only nice on cows) then there wouldn’t be such an issue.