The enviro-religious fanatics at the EPA want to clamp down on backyard barbecues and hotel shower length.
“We expect to limit the overall air pollution PM [particulate matter] emissions from barbecuing and to alleviate some of the acute health hazards that a barbecue pit master can experience from inhalation. The particulate matter present during cooking with and without the grease diverter and PM2.5 filters will be tested and compared to that of current data using a conventional propane barbecue using a fumehood chamber with detectors at CE-CERT. Personal exposure of PM2.5 will also be monitored throughout the experimentation period to determine the degree of acute exposure of particulates to the cook.”
And….
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants hotels to monitor how much time its guests spend in the shower.
The agency is spending $15,000 to create a wireless system that will track how much water a hotel guest uses to get them to “modify their behavior.”
Gee, and to think some people think the Tea Party is irrational for thinking Government is too big and too intrusive. Isn’t it worth having $18 Trillion in national debt to receive this kind of quality effective Government?
It’s also a kick to periodically read about the ultimate environment fringe lunatics & there will always be a steady supply of them in our often self-righteous nation.
It shows us the barrier that if crossed, becomes a joke. Liberals & their lot have a love affair with a tawdry utopia where people don’t move, breathe or flick their bics.
What else is new? Hell, they have already regulated how much water can be in my toilet tank and how much can be flushed at any given moment. Thank the Obama Administration’s EPA for the those pigtail light bulbs. I have a large supply of incandescent light bulbs, believing they will be manufactured again. I believe Congressman Louis Gohmert, has authored a bill to resume manufacture of incandescent bulbs to give the public a choice.
But as long as the helots get their welfare and free condoms, all is well.
As someone raised* on Navy Showers**, I don’t find it inherently objectionable to use technology for encouraging shorter showers — so long as it’s inexpensyive to implement and can be voluntarily overridden
*GITMO was (and presumably still is) partially dependent on expensive desalinization for fresh water because it was naturally dryer than other parts of Cuba — so all residents, Navy or not, were nagged to be frugal with water.
** But not in the sense of “showering with hunky-yet-lonely sailors,” alas.
In other words, “nudge-nudge, but don’t force.”
Fortunately the low flow showerheads enforced in some areas can be fixed with tools. Even with good showers I use less water than LaTrina’s 21 illegitimate crack babies. The govt should be out of my bedroom, out of my wallet, out of my laundry room, & our of my shower. I add Tri sodium nitrate (available in the painting aisle) which was removed from laundry & dishwashing liquid and an ex actually called the cops on me about it after we broke up.
Hillary wants to send people to camps and I don’t think she means the bathhouses in the woods
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/hillary-we-need-camps-adults
In 2003, Throbert, GTMO was still reliant on expensive water, although at least in the JTF-GTMO areas, water conservation wasn’t stressed that much.
My response to a hotel or motel that would implement one of those government schemes (water flow limiters are bad enough) would be to go to the front desk and paraphrase then candidate Ronald Reagan: “I’m paying for this water, Mr. Innkeep.”
Forgive me, Throbert, but I don’t want to even be nudged, be it ever so gently. I want to be LEFT THE F*CK ALONE. (I suspect you do, too.)
Part of the point of going to a hotel is to take a shower that’s as long as you want, without worrying you’ll run out.
If the water bill gets expensive, they can raise their rate, or include an overage charge.