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I once rented an apartment with a modern 2 in 1 washer dryer and it was easily the worst appliance I ever used. Bar none. The whole ordeal would take like 4 or 5 hours because using very little water means you need a 90 minute wash, and the dryer is of course too anemic to be much better than just setting the clothes out to dry on every available piece of furniture you own.

I'll take a little bit of inefficiency on my end as a consumer. I am the little man after all my footprint is small enough compared to what globalized industry is wreaking on the planet. I shouldn't be made to feel bad to have a washer dryer that is actually a time savings compared to a washboard and clothes line.

FWIW in CA your rate also depends on your provider. I am paying like 16 cents a kilowatt hour.

So dry your laundry manually if you prefer.

IMO dryer is for when it's impossible to dry indoors/outdoors because of cold/humidity.

I often did. Of course I had three other roommates at the time so it was not a sustainable solution to have four loads of clothes dispersed across the apartment if we happened to run into eachothers laundry schedules.

> I am paying like 16 cents a kilowatt hour.

wow, that is so low.

PG&E charges from 29-50+ cents per kwh and the average is 35.

I couldn't imagine 35 cents. Here in the midwest we're paying 8-11cents. My water bill is billed quarterly and I don't use much over the base amount you get included with the service charge. We're talking 100$ for sewer, garbage, and water per 3 months. I have 4 bathrooms.

Municipal power, baby.

more like "regulatory capture, baby!"

That's a bit of a strawman - I'm sure there are old washer and dryers that were also terrible, it's not inherently a property of all modern washers and dryers.

I'm sure there are, just on my anecdotal experience I've never dealt with one. And considering the simplicity of the old washer and dryer its hard to imagine you even get much of a lemming. Simple machines tend to work well for a long time no matter what they are or what they do.

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