Resourcefulness and Determination Prevail over Envirofacism

The Washington State Department of Ecology ("Ecolonazis"), is, as one would expect under the umbrella of a socialist democrat administration and legislature, a rigid organization, much like Al Gore followers, unwilling to consider different opinions and research. Thus the great declaration with respect to global warming (now called “climate change” to protect the stupid) that “the debate is done.”

In Spokane, (including all of Spokane County), as well as Whatcom County in Northwest Washington, the ecolonazis decided to outlaw the SALE of dishwasher soap that has phosphates in it. For you unenlightened surely you must remember the days of rivers, including fish with tears in their eyes, saddened because the phosphates made bubbles on the river.

Sad indeed.

Ecolonazis decided that clothes washing law wasn’t enough meddling in individual lives. In mega-liberal Whatcom County (home to a state university, what can you say!) and in more conservative Spokane County (home to a less liberal state university) on the east side of the state (where I live), it is no longer legal to sell dishwasher detergents with phospates, whether or not they clean dishes. One intent of this law may be to see how well the ban is accepted in two very different parts of the state, politically, with little effective public outcry.

Citizens may have and use the horrid phosphate products but no one can sell them. In other words, I am not a criminal (in the eyes of the law but certainly must be in the eyes of the ecolonazis) if I have the product; in the perfect world of the environazis I just won’t be able to buy it anywhere.

Associated Press (“AP”) JUST had a story on this very issue although the story wrote only about Spokane County. It included interviews and a brief discussion of the intent of the law. What intrigued me most in this story was how folks demonstrate that when legislation is not perfectly oppressive, they can and will work around it. Coeur d Alene, Idaho is only thirty miles from Spokane. In Idaho, you know those backwards people, it is NOT illegal to sell the older products that work. I headed over there a few weeks ago, bought myself a few tubs of the sinister detergent and brought several back to folks at work who wanted it as well. While in the store, with my cart full of these tubs, I made it a point to ask several store employees if they could guess where I live. Every one of them said “Spokane” after looking at my cart. Recently I visited the service desk at Costco in Spokane Valley on another matter and a woman came to the same counter to request a refund for unsatisfactory substitutes she had purchased. I asked her if she read the AP story and she had; the counter clerk lamented that Costco should stop selling the alternative products because everyone who had tried them was turning them in for a refund.

The Washington Lake Protection Association (I may not have stated that name correctly) says we can wash our dishes by hand if they are not clean from the dishwasher. We can but that is sort of silly, no? Expect a lot of dishwashers for sale on e-bay. And, washing dishes by hand requires more hot water (energy) than does using the dishwasher.

Oh my lord! There goes the carbon footprint!

The Association is sad. After all, they were the ones who got Ecolonazis to pass that law, thus conserving their own resources rather than attempting to sell the public on their position and instead transferring to the state the costs of further research and enforcement (with no state objection of course).

In Whatcom County (more "liberal" Western Washington) I am quite sure there are many folks who will happily eat off of dirty dishes in order to spare the life of a fish or see running water without algae and bubbles (none of these benefits have been successfully proven to me) but for those who would rather have clean dishes, Costco in Burlington, Washington, in Skagit County adjacent to Whatcom County to the south and other Western Washington locations, still sell the horrid product. That is, until Ecolonazis proclaim, without peer review, that the sole reason all our rivers and lakes in Whatcom and Spokane Counties are pure, is the willingness of citizens to eat off of dirty dishes. Again, the aim of the lake protection association, with Ecolonazis along as the happy puppy is to eliminate the horrid product statewide. At that point, most folks will eat on dirty dishes never quite sure why the government forces them to do so, but happy in their belief that their government would not mislead them. Me? I will still drive to Coeur ‘d Alene and buy the dishwasher soap that cleans my dishes.

The environmentalists have done a great deal of economic damage to this country over 30 years but they will unsuccessfully work their way in to my kitchen.