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California Droughtrage - LA County Supervisors Have Cars Washed 3 Times A Week
Great news - Californians have managed to reduce water usage by 31% in July, surpassing the mandated 25% reduction amid the worst drought in centuries. However, this dramatic reduction is in now way thanks to local government in Los Angeles, where, as Daily News reports, the majority of LA County supervisors have their take-home cars washed two or three times a week, service records show, and actually washed them more frequently than before Governor Brown's orders.
California decreased its total water use by 31.3 percent in July, surpassing a goal set by Gov. Jerry Brown four months ago to cut urban water use by 25 percent, according to figures released Thursday, but, as Daily News report, no thanks whatsoever to LA County Board of Supervisors...
Despite living in one of the most car-centric and image-conscious cities in the world, many Los Angeles drivers have cut their carwashes during the crippling drought.
Not so for the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
The majority of the supervisors wash their take-home cars two or three times a week, service records show, and actually washed them more frequently after Gov. Jerry Brown ordered a 25 percent cut in urban water use. As the county’s washes continue to consume tap water, some other local governments have pledged to skip washes for months or are using recirculated water.
“When government takes the initiative, it really says something about their leadership,” said Rachel Stich, spokeswoman for Los Angeles Waterkeeper, an environmental group that started a pledge drive for dirty cars. “If they’re going to be asking their residents to conserve water, everybody needs to be stepping up.”
Meanwhile, city officials in Long Beach, Santa Monica, Burbank, Malibu and San Gabriel have all pledged to stop washing their cars for two months, as part of the L.A. Waterkeeper drive.
And in the final irony,
County officials are studying how to save water at their carwashes, a representative said.
Top county officials get their cars washed in the basement of the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration downtown, at one of three carwashes run by the county government. They can receive a car allowance, or have the government purchase them a vehicle, which is then washed, maintained and fueled by taxpayers.
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Let them eat suds.
Cleanliness over godliness?
I been fuckin' tellin' y'all about the LA'ers for a while.
See see see see see
Buncha wasteful narcissistic inbred fools.
I mean they even have people in places like Compton making hit movies about destroying the very fabric of Western Civilization
Yes sir..K.nukes...and those from said bastard state that think they will just meander down to the Republic of Texas will NOT be welcomed!!!!
And now, since conservation efforts have been so 'successful', the LA DWP wants to raise water rates.
I'm shocked. No, really. Shocked.
Who the hell needs to wash the car twice a week? The Governor should take away the offenders car and close the car wash...if he had any actual integrity.
I doubt the governor can. That is up to the tax serfs. Good luck getting those fucktard's noses out of their phones long enough to notice!
Don't disparage the unions. You might get black balled...
http://www.breitbart.com/california/2015/08/13/l-a-dumps-black-balls-int...
I'm betting Jimmy Hoffa is under there somewhere.
They can afford to, it's simple math.
See, if the state needs to reduce water consumption by 25% to survive, and actually reduces it by 31%, then there's a whole extra 6% of consumption to play with - so why not wash the car a bit more often?
sure, wash as often as you like
more than enough tears of the poor for extra rinsing
"The tears aren't coming. The tears just aren't coming." ~ GOB Bluth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKb8Dpwyloc
Water conservation regs, like most laws, are for the little peeples.
Let's not forget who puts up all the $$$ for these movies and music to be made. Who controls the cultural narrative?
Exactly. It's all good and environmentally correct because the car wash runoff is recycled as drinking water.
"It's good to be King!" in the Kleptoligarcy.
Bankster's probably wash theirs every day.
S'okay. They get pissed on 5-7 times per week.
Yeah, couldn't they just pay the squeegee mob to piss on 'em and wipe 'em down with newspaper? Much more ecologically friendly...
Having the bullet riddled doors and fenders changed twice a week. Coming soon.
What is it with American's obsession with lawns and flashy cars? If it isn't food or a shelter belt why water it? I love riding around Scottsdale in my used dusty car with 100,000 miles on it or my truck that actually has a purpose and checking out all of the assholes that have all of their wealth tied up in their shiny Mercedes with oiled tires. Insanity all around.
I've wondered this, also. A lawn is for playing sports or having a party on, otherwise, why spend money (resources) to just have a green space you only look at when walking from your car to your house?
"why spend money (resources) to just have a green space you only look at when walking from your car to your house?"
Because your neighbors see it too?
have all of their wealth tied up in their shiny Mercedes with oiled tires
Pfuuh... Shit is most likely leased. LOL
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
That's the LA ethos. Bleeds into the system via Hollywood and excess, like a giant toxic enema into the bowels of mankind.
Cuz you ain't pimpin' Govt Aristocrat style unless that Crown Victoria is shiny as a muthahfuggah...
Some of those fuckwrs have lobbied to get Teslas because they don't pollute.
Aaaaaaarararrarrarraggggghhhhh!
...And they probably actually think that they deserve Teslas. Unbelievable...
Drown them in grey water.
zero investigate reporting. car washes and mobile car washing services have to use recycled water in Los Angeles county. they don't make us drink it yet, but they do insist on using it to water parks and wash cars. it's been a restriction for years.
I was thinking exactly the same thing. Every car wash I've seen for the peons uses recirculated water.
Nope, they re-use some of the water from previous car washing, but much of it still comes from the municipal water source.
That is why there is still a grease interceptor that catches some of the car wash water and sends the dirty water to the sewer system and not storm drain system. Whoever downvoted you should first know how a carwash is designed. I have worked on one site where they made some crazy recycling claims, but the grease interceptor still goes in. You also can not put stormwater into the sewer system. It may be recycled but its just like recycled Las Vegas potable water.
Worked on a parking lot for a catering service and the trench drain during rainy days had a sensor to send the stormwater to the SD. Otherwise the trench drain sent the food truck washing down water to the interceptor out to the sewer.
Obama gets hosed by Reggie two or three times a week weather Brown likes it or not.
Someone please tell me why these public servants have "take home cars"???
Where is my take home car? Why don't the lazy piece of sh!t public servants drive their own cars to work like taxpayers do? Don't make a fool of yourselves and suggest these lazy sh!ts are working long hours or that they might have to race to work in the middle of the night -- that's just bullsh!t and we all know it.
Forget about washing the "take home cars" -- throw those lazy bastards out into the real world and make them pay for and drive their own cars just like real taxpayers.
Cars? They should be taking public transit.
Every city government should require its politicians and chief bureaucrats to drink city tap water, take the city's public transport, and send their kids to the city's public schools. For starters.
I think all parasites, excuse me, government employees, should have a salary somewhere under the poverty line.
Exactly, they are supposed to be public servants.
Because its part of their benefits package - just like it is with private sector jobs. They have expense accounts too, and allowances for all kinds of crap - just like private sector jobs.
It is the reason a guy like Don Knabe has made a career out of being in city and county government. Good ol Don entered California politics (are you ready for this) in 1978 - you can look him up on Wikipedia. Local taxpayers have been paying Don's way for almost 40 years.
Taxpayers get a per mile allowance. I haven't heard of a company supplied car since the tax code was tightened during the 90s (and even then it was in decline).
The problem is these criminal government employees don't obey the laws they enforce on taxpayers. Supposedly, if the supreme court reads the Constitution, government employees are not above the law (Nixon wasn't anyway).
At the very least, these car washing public employees should be charged with tax evasion -- same as would happen to the taxpaying public.
If the union has an issue with it? Charge the union under RICO -- same as has happened with private citizens.
Give him credit, he's been washing his car every other day before the drought.
Seriously, who friggin has enough time to wash their car that many times a week?
County employees wash their cars for them.
who also have county cars. califonia, its a whole different place.
I haven't washed my car in months.
The Mandarins enjoy getting their free cars washed a lot for free. It's even more fun during a drought. What did you expect?
I estimate that I will have to wash my guillotine at least three times a week, maybe four.
Depends on utilization rates, though.
Zion is a scheme, not an ethnicity.
Cleanliness,
in this case, is next to godlessness.
Feature, not a bug, of progressivism.
It's the drought, stupid! All the dry weather has made things dusty - so of course you have to wash cars more often! (If you are the ruling elite!)
My neighbor, corner lot fun.
This guy decides to build a wall around his yard, and hire some ILLEGAL aliens to put Succulent plugs in his yard around the first 15-20 feet of the perimeter.
It looks like " hair club for houses". he just had the ILLEGALS use wood chips. No stone, or bricks to display the succulents.
Then the idiot builds a cheezy wood treated, "slat wall" to encompass the ramaining part of the yard.
This fucker, I live in Old School-Ville, has got to be employed by .gov.
My house overlooks the ocean, and this clown is living on some land that has no view, that used to be [Green Houses]
WOW if I wash my car every 2 months that's allot
And my car gets a wash and oil change once a year, whether it needs it or not -- and it's still running fine after more than 20 years.
So much for weekly washes and 3-month oil changes.
This calls for a Classic: "They don't give a fuck about you, at all, at all, at all!!!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESAmKudsKKY
Oh no they washed their car with recycled water...
And who paid for it?
The taxpayer, that's who!
No car used in ordinary service needs to be washed more than once a month.
Can you say nepotism/favoritism/kickbacks?
Nevermind the 1,000s of factory farms in the middle of a desert, what will save California from drought is elimination of thrice weekly carwashes for the rulers.
These sociopathic, self-aggrandizing meglomaniacs aren't having their cars washed. They don't own it and they don't give a shit. I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't even drive their county-issued cars because they'd be too embarrassed to be seen in a .gov-tagged, GM-subsidized generic.
The only thing being washed is cash via fake car wash reciepts submitted with expense reports. I'll bet these guys get an extra $100/week of untaxable income for washes alone.
This is where the story is--all the angles these dickhead bureaucrats use to line their pockets in every way imaginable. But the media will miss it because they are so easily distracted.
Should have bought a laser tag joint instead.
I'm not sure what is worse. That they were doing this or that they (or their management) didn't have the brains to figure out that people would be offended by this
Abbie Normal has me beat, but I think several times my 18 year old truck missed it's annual wash.