Posted on 08/09/2010 9:45:32 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
First the greenies came to take away our lightbulbs in the U.S. and force us to buy more expensive ones. Now the greenies are on the march in Australia with the unkindest swipe of all: forcing Australians to pay 42 percent more for toilet paper.
In a report recently put out by Tim Wilson of SustainableDev.org (.pdf of report), we find greenism being used as a cover to foster protectionist trade restrictions in Australia. Wilson reveals that toilet tissue companies in Australia are using fake green concerns to keep competing foreign toilet paper products from reaching the country. These restrictive polices will cause the cost of toilet paper in Australia to climb as competition is eliminated.
Further he cites the use of fake green policies serving as cover for restrictionist policies in other countries, too. Not just by governments, but corporations and even unions are using fake green issues to serve their desires to dampen free trade internationally...
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
Forget the lightbulbs, they previously changed the flush power of toilets from 1.9 to 1.6 gallons per flush. Even that was bad!
Save the trees, burn a greenie instead.
I have a pair of 6 litres per flush toilets that work just fine. In the year I’ve had them, I have needed to give a second flush exactly twice with one, and once with the other.
Low-flow toilets and the relevant hydraulic flow engineering have come a LONG way since their introduction, and you must admit that using 5 gallons of drinking water to dispose of a pint of waste is a rather profligate use of a valuable resource.
YMMV, JMHO
Ha, I love it. Great cartoon.
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