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Fairfax Considers Car Wash Ban In Front Yards
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| 10/1/2007
| wayne freedman
Posted on 10/03/2007 6:45:26 AM PDT by racing fan
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More crazyness where I live.
To: racing fan
How. pray tell, do they reuse the grime?
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posted on
10/03/2007 6:46:52 AM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(Fred Dalton Thompson for President)
To: racing fan
Wow. You live there? Please tell me you are the town shrink and business is good.
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posted on
10/03/2007 6:47:50 AM PDT
by
Tenacious 1
(No to nitwit jesters with a predisposition of self importance and unqualified political opinions!)
To: racing fan
How many members of the town council own car washes?
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posted on
10/03/2007 6:48:03 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
To: racing fan
I don't see cops policing this one.
That being said, my local town just banned car-washing at home. We're in the midst of a pretty bad drought. They also banned lawn-watering, and some other stuff, too.
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posted on
10/03/2007 6:50:38 AM PDT
by
wbill
To: dfwgator
How many members of the town council own car washes?Very good question. And do they think that driving to the car wash and back represents the "green" approach? Let's see - 5 miles there, 5 back - that's 1/2 gallon of gas wasted for each weekly car wash. And the car wash uses water, and some fairly strong soap as well (especially the brushless version). Plus, it costs more to have it washed than it does to do it yourself.
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posted on
10/03/2007 6:53:48 AM PDT
by
meyer
(Illegal Immigration - The profits are privatized, the costs are socialized.)
To: racing fan
>>This ordinance would empower police to write tickets in extreme cases. <<
Huh? Full contact car washing?
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posted on
10/03/2007 6:54:12 AM PDT
by
shove_it
(nonillegitimous carborundum)
To: NonValueAdded
How. pray tell, do they reuse the grime?
:::::::
Sell it to Taco Bell?
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posted on
10/03/2007 6:55:13 AM PDT
by
loungitude
(The truth hurts.)
To: racing fan
From the article:
"I think it's an American's right to participate in a community for the good of the community," says Vice Mayor Maggiore.
I don't know whether to laugh, scream or cry.
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posted on
10/03/2007 7:03:51 AM PDT
by
frossca
To: racing fan
I would be almost certain that in this era of environmental law suits the manufacturers of car washing detergents have thought of this problem and made the ingredients biodegradable and non toxic. I would also think the local police would have more important tasks to do than being environmental nannies. Is there no crime in this community or do they have so many cops on the street they need to give them something to do?
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posted on
10/03/2007 7:05:38 AM PDT
by
The Great RJ
("Mir we bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
To: meyer
Very good question. And do they think that driving to the car wash and back represents the "green" approach? Let's see - 5 miles there, 5 back - that's 1/2 gallon of gas wasted for each weekly car wash. And the car wash uses water, and some fairly strong soap as well (especially the brushless version). Plus, it costs more to have it washed than it does to do it yourself. You left out the fact the water will end up in the same place as it does when they wash the car at home, in the streams and oceans, which is what they are bitching about.
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posted on
10/03/2007 7:20:36 AM PDT
by
calex59
To: racing fan
"They would probably just issue them a warning and that would be an opportunity to educate the person," says Lindy Kelly, town manager. Spoken like a true conmmunist dictator. Let's now set up education camps for car washers./SAR
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posted on
10/03/2007 7:22:05 AM PDT
by
calex59
To: racing fan
"Paging Dr. Bonner...."
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posted on
10/03/2007 7:25:58 AM PDT
by
Rb ver. 2.0
(Reunite Gondwanaland!)
To: NonValueAdded
In reality, most parties expect some kind of compromise like biodegradable soaps, for instance. However, those would not spare the environment from all the all other stuff soap would remove, and the nearest full-service car wash is three miles down the road in San Rafael. Here's another idiot remark. The "other stuff" that is washed off of cars is road grime(dirt, road tar, etc), all this stuff washes down to the ocean when it rains, I guess we are going to have to ban rain except over ocean areas so that "other stuff" doesn't run off into it and kill the fish. The stupidity of leftists is amazing, but what is more amazing is the stupidity of the conservatives who vote them back into office year after year.
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posted on
10/03/2007 7:28:07 AM PDT
by
calex59
To: racing fan
says Lindy Kelly, town manager.If women ruled the world we would be mothered to death.
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posted on
10/03/2007 7:28:33 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(BOMB, BOMB, BOMB,.......BOMB, BOMB IRAN)
To: dfwgator
That was my first thought as well. Someone is profiting from this on the council. Just like a zoning/sewer moratorium we are going through in trying to sell some land. Oddly, commmercial was not part of the issue for some inexplicable reason. I almost called the council on it in the most recent letter I wrote.
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posted on
10/03/2007 7:33:03 AM PDT
by
doodad
To: wbill
Global warming causes hurricanes AND droughts.
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posted on
10/03/2007 7:35:26 AM PDT
by
mountn man
(The pleasure you get from life, is equal to the attitude you put into it.)
To: racing fan
“They would probably just issue them a warning and that would be an opportunity to educate the person,” says Lindy Kelly, town manager.”
My goodness, do these people even realize that words have meaning. Now the cops will become green teachers and educate the ignorant soul who washed his/her car at home. If this does not represent the myopic thinking of the left, I don’t know what else could.
To: racing fan
There's a town council proposal to ban residents from washing their cars in front of their houses, for fear of what the runoff may do to fish in their creeks, and downstream in the ocean.
For fear of? No tests, no science involved, just fear? Why don't they build a water treatment facility?
Freakin' "watermelons" will be the death of freedom in this country and they're worried about fish.
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posted on
10/03/2007 7:39:22 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: calex59
You left out the fact the water will end up in the same place as it does when they wash the car at home, in the streams and oceans, which is what they are bitching about.Actually, a sizeable portion of the water used to wash the car in the front yard ends up watering the lawn, while the rest goes down the storm sewer (assuming there are storm sewers in that area) and on to the river, lake, ocean, or whatever.
There's nothing uniquely wrong with this water - it just contains a portion of the airborne and road grime that will get washed down into the earth, streams, and oceans when it rains anyway.
This is probably one of those "property value" issues, like bans on outdoor clothslines and that kind of thing. We can't have the peasants looking like peasants now, can we?
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posted on
10/03/2007 7:40:19 AM PDT
by
meyer
(Illegal Immigration - The profits are privatized, the costs are socialized.)
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