If you like to eat grilled food, that’s one thing, but i don’t think the amount of air pollution you’re generating by cooking outside is worth the few bucks saved, if you’re doing it purely from an economical point of view.

Here in the northeast, more and more people are increasingly relying on wood stoves to keep their heating bills down, so we’ve got enough smog and unhealthy ozone days already without encouraging people to burn even more out of doors.

However, i heartily endorse your suggestion to line-dry clothes, something i do all summer long. With my long commute it’s more of a challenge to time clothes washing to those weekend days that are fair enough to hang my clothes out, but I am doing just that. And i can tell you it makes a MAJOR difference in my electric bill when i don’t use my dryer.