Bleaching Ourselves to Death

Mises.org ^ | February 28, 2011 | Jeffrey Tucker

[SeeSharp]

San Fransisco’s push for low-flush toilets has created a serious problem. There is not enough water flowing through the system, and so the back up has created a gigantic, city-wide stink. This can be fixed but only by pouring massive, unthinkable amounts of bleach into the sewer system, a prospect that has many people very alarmed. It’s the old story: intervention begets intervention. Perhaps we should think a bit less about “saving” water and start thinking about saving civilization.

[SeeSharp]

You just have to laugh.

[Valpal1]

Couldn’t have happened to a nicer place.

God is an iron.

[Ev Reeman]

San Francisco: shit for brains.

[DBrow]

This is why Michelle Obama’s efforts to reduce the amount we eat is ever so more critical.

For the children.

[bill1952]

Perhaps we should think a bit less about “saving” water and start thinking about saving civilization.

Should be engraved in stone over the doors to the EPA...

[ArrogantBustard]

So ... San Fransicko is full of crap?

[Cyber Liberty]

We now have the proof of what we’ve known all along....

[lmr]

Indeed. Low Flow toilets sound nice to the enviro-Nazis but no one stopped to think that the sewers themselves have to maintain a flow of water to keep everything moving.

Sure, the solution is a harsh chemical and MORE WATER. In the end, they probably wouldn't have 'saved' anything. Morons.

[JeffChrz]

I didn’t think the bums on Market were the only cause.

[al44]

Somehow I get the picture in my mind of the San Franciscans singing “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life”.

[Tennessee Nana]

Oh poo...

[Mobties]

Ah, the sweet smell of Carol Browner’s socialist environmentalist wacko legacy.

[La Enchiladita]

Being San Francisco and all, I would think they would use Patchouli instead of bleach. Problem solved!!

[blueunicorn6]

Well, the answer to this is easy. Everyone in San Francisco saves up and flushes once-a-day at the same time.

[jusduat]

Your problem solving ability is noted.

[GizmosAndGadgets]

Well, the answer to this is easy. Everyone in San Francisco saves up and flushes once-a-day at the same time.

Yes, except that government will now have to involve itself, requiring meters on the outbound-side to monitor the time and volume of your flushes and fine you if you demonstrate that you are unwilling to participate in this community effort ;-)

[ROTB]

Except for the part about “saving up”, unless we’re talking about a citywide #1 “fest”.

[rfp1234]

pouring massive, unthinkable amounts of bleach into the sewer system

That could really screw up the ecological balance of Fungi in the SF Bay ecosystem. But that's nothing that a few more billion $$$ in federal research stimuli can't solve [/s].

[LouAvul]

created a gigantic, city-wide stink

They're wrong. That's not the sewer. It's the hippies.

[Blue Collar Christian]

Probably half the stink would go away if the men washed their penises.