I am amazed and rather horrified at the notion that line drying washing is undesirable. Even in Ireland where drying clothes outside is year round, a race against the elements, many people do not have dryers, and even when they do it is only as back up to outside drying. I do not have a dryer, they are very heavy users of electricity.

I find the notion that outside drying is undesirable from an aesthetic aspect is sad and twee. How synthetic is your life if you can't cope with a line of washing blowing in the breeze? How can whole neighbourhoods be dictated to by home associations on what they can do in their own backyard. I could understand objections to scrap cars or endlessly barking dogs, but noxious laundry? Wake up and contribute to the Power of One campaign. If every one person does one thing to save power, we may yet save the planet.