[Greenbuilding] ENERGY STAR Clothes Dryers Program Launch

[Grace Annam]

On 2012/07/24 19:05 PM, John Salmen wrote:

> This has been a funny conversation. I am surprised at the defensiveness in
> the reactions.

Likewise!

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 7:18 AM, Paul Eldridge 
<paul.eldridge at ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:

> So, you'll have to forgive me if I sound a little testy about having
> to defend the use of our dryer, but I feel that I've more than
> carried my weight.

I have to forgive you?  Well, if I must, then I suppose I must.  You are 
forgiven.  Te absolvo.

I was using your case to generalize, not trying to get on your case. 
Apparently I succeeded without trying, though, and wouldn't THAT be nice 
in other walks of life!

We used to own a dryer.  Now we don't.  We live in an intermittently 
rainy climate, generally humid in the summer and generally frozen in the 
winter.

It's inconvenient, I agree.

It would have been easier to switch away from using the dryer if we were 
charged for our electricity commensurate with all of the costs of that 
electricity, including costs of generation, which include upstream costs 
of extraction of fossil fuels and downstream costs of pollution from 
burning them.

But we aren't charged in that way, and so the feedback loop is skewed, 
and so we make our choices such that the benefit tends to accrue to us, 
while the costs tend to accrue to others.

That was the point I was trying to make, which perhaps was not in view 
from your position behind your redoubt.

Grace