23 Replies to “O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas”

  1. Presumably in SF it’s illegal to drive in the rain as all of the dirt on vehicles gets washed into the storm drains. As far as soap goes, it’s just a long chain fatty acid which bacteria love to eat. Doubt that very much would make it out of the storm drains. One could counter sue the city because they don’t treat storm drain water and all of the heavy metals and, huge quantities of rubber from the steady wear caused by paved roads, are discharged into the environment. All one would need to shut down the SF storm drains would be a single minnow with a latex allergy.
    I’d like to see a picture of the official responsible for this asinine ruling. If female, I suspect she’s probably a hideous leftist hag who probably detests the nubile fit bodies of cheerleaders.

  2. Calif. alone has 4550 full time employees at the EPA to regulate everything from snot to snowballs. They all stay very busy with their pride in regulation paper pushing.
    http://www.calepa.ca.gov/LawsRegs/ProposedRegs/T27/Dictionary.pdf
    This is just one small sector but you can see by the relevance of the paperwork that if 4500 were fired tomorrow the State might even be in a position to regain some sanity and stop the destruction of a once vibrant economy. California and Detroit have so much in common. The only difference is Detroit is now and California is in the near future….thanks to Disneyland and the weather.

  3. California is becoming a loony bin. Soon to turn into a place only Mad Max would love.
    When its society falls apart from the plague of bureaucrats.
    Its become a cheap dress from Chinese factory slaves.

  4. San Jose California Environmental Services Department.
    –
    In the dictionary under Assholes,
    It says: see them..

  5. Loki
    ‘I’d like to see a picture of the official responsible for this asinine ruling.
    If female, I suspect she’s probably a hideous leftist hag who probably detests the nubile fit bodies of cheerleaders.’
    –
    This is her picture-
    And I sent her an Asshole email.
    http://www.piersystems.com/clients/1914/484123.jpg
    She will probably consider it a compliment on a job well done.

  6. Although I pray to the Sweet Saint of San Andreas as vigorously as any of you, in all fairness I’d like to point out that, in Calgary, you will be fined for washing your car on the street in front of your home. The soapy water runs off into the storm drains and directly into the river system. Presumably Calgary commercial car washes drain into the sewer system.

  7. Here locally, the Country Roads people were forbidden to connect their wash bays to the new sewer…..
    Commercial car washes recycle their water for the same reason….the sand settles out and you, in practice are giving your vehicle a brine bath….as if ya washed the sucker in the ocean…..makes vehicles biodegradable…..

  9. In Switzerland, it’s been illegal to wash your car for years. That said, motorsports of any kind are illegal there as well. Whoever said the Nazis lost the war is flat wrong…

  10. It’s not illegal to wash your car in Switzerland. There are commercial car washes like anywhere else, and many parking garages have places designated for car washing.
    You’re also wrong about motorsports. E.g., http://www.riv.ch/en/

  11. I should’ve inserted the caveat about washing your own car with your own hose in your own driveway. I figured the readers here would be able to work that out on their own without being semantics addicts…
    As for motorsports being banned in Suisse, you can thank the BBC for that report.

  12. Figured it out by calling the Thellig team. Roadracing tracks are outlawed in the nation of Switzerland. They even went so far as busting up all the existing ones years ago.
    The point is the same. The liberal socialists are the ‘No Fun Party’ on every continent.

  13. Michael Thellig, the team principal just called back. He says circuit racing in Suisse has been banned since 1951 because of the great Mercedes crash at Le Mans. Somehow rallying and go-karting is okay. Hillclimbing too, just not actual racing on an actual track.
    Typical socialism, huh? Racing is okay, just not on a racetrack. Kinda like healthcare is okay, just not if you can actually participate the way you want to.

  15. Regarding Yop’s comment about Calgary, I was recently told I couldn’t wash my trailer other than at a truck wash – even on a gravel parking pad.

  16. I guess an example of “semantics” would be “motorsports of any kind”…
    It’s not a matter of your own driveway; it a matter of pollution. As we have seen, Switzerland is far from the only jurisdiction that worries about putting oil, grease, and detergents into its storm sewers.
    The “great Mercedes crash at Le Mans” (which killed 84 people) was in 1955. How did that cause the Swiss to ban circuit racing in 1951?
    (The ban was actually in 1955.)
    No country is perfect, but, by any reasonable definition, Switzerland is one of the least socialist countries in the world.

  19. It’s not a matter of your own driveway; it a matter of pollution. As we have seen, Switzerland is far from the only jurisdiction that worries about putting oil, grease, and detergents into its storm sewers.
    So far no one has answered the question I posed in my first post — why are people allowed to drive in the rain? All of the material that comes off when one washes a vehicle comes off in the rain as well. All of the oil that seeps out of vehicle engines floats to the surface of water on roads and runs into storm sewers, a flow facilitated by the pumping and spraying action of vehicles driving through puddles. All of the antifreeze that leaks out of vehicles gets washed into storm sewers. Then there’s the problem of tire wear and millions of pounds of finely pulverized rubber go into — storm sewers.
    Such idiotic legislation is passed by people who haven’t a clue about what they’re talking about and think that a symbolic act is better than doing nothing at all. In BC it’s illegal to shake a bottle of antibiotic tablets into the toilet and flush. However, should the same quantity of antibiotic be excreted in urine, then no one seems to bat an eyelash at the contradiction. When I first heard about this asinine BC legislation I did write on prescriptions that pharmacists were to provide urine collection jugs to go with the antibiotic prescription I’d written. Surprisingly, quite a number of them didn’t understand such a simple concept when I’d get calls back about the prescription I’d just written. Tadpoles can grow breasts from birth control pills but don’t dare wash your vehicle on the road./sarc.
    I don’t wash my jeep because I’m lazy and it rains often enough that most of the dust gets washed off. The only parts of my jeep that I’m interested in keeping spotlessly clean are the windows and I suppose I’d be breaking laws in some cities by using the soapy water that gas stations supply for window washing which runs off my vehicle when I drive away from the gas station.

  20. The leftist insanity is directly connected with to being over run with foreigners.. Europe? California? and any other place run by the lib-left..
    They know in a generation or two all these white idiots will be IRRELEVANT.. Replaced by a different culture..
    So their only defense is to make life so Fracking miserable that not only will people stop coming but they will move away..
    Think of it as green ethnic cleansing 🙂

  22. Hey, I don’t disagree. (I even let nature wash my Jeep, although it’s pretty obvious that detergents remove a lot that rain won’t.) It’s quite possible that detergents in storm sewers are especially problematic, but I don’t have the expertise to comment on that, and I don’t have the time to Google around and pretend I know about this stuff. For all I know, these laws are useless.
    However, I do know 1) that it’s not illegal to wash one’s car in Switzerland; 2) that all motorsport is not illegal there; 3) that the Le Mans disaster happened in 1955; and 4) that Switzerland is a relatively free country. So I commented on those things.

  23. This was Lincoln High?
    I thought they were destroyed by Ridgemont after they trashed Jefferson’s car…

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