Chief, the marketing comment was aimed at the created need for fabric softeners and dryer sheets and that sort of nonsense.

In Ontario, where I live, some communities passed bylaws outlawing clotheslines on the grounds that they constituted an eyesore but, in reality, the intent was an appeal to class snobbery. The provincial government has just passed a law undoing those bylaws in the name of energy conservation. Sometimes governments get it right.