Philobiblon

In many parts of America, even drying your clothes outside is banned – you have to use up electricity inside, even if the temperature outside would fry an egg. And as for solar panels or wind turbines… forget it.

Surburbia really is, when you think about it, deeply, deeply weird – not to mention incredibly snobbish (since class has a lot to do with these rules, as the linked article makes clear).