When Dish Soap Is Illegal Only Criminals Will Own Dish Soap

• March 31, 2009

Sigh…

SPOKANE, Wash. – The quest for squeaky-clean dishes has turned some law-abiding people in Spokane into dishwater-detergent smugglers. They are bringing Cascade or Electrasol in from out of state because the eco-friendly varieties required under Washington state law don’t work as well. Spokane County became the launch pad last July for the nation’s strictest ban on dishwasher detergent made with phosphates, a measure aimed at reducing water pollution. The ban will be expanded statewide in July 2010, the same time similar laws take effect in several other states.
But it’s not easy to get sparkling dishes when you go green.
Many people were shocked to find that products like Seventh Generation, Ecover and Trader Joe’s left their dishes encrusted with food, smeared with grease and too gross to use without rewashing them by hand. The culprit was hard water, which is mineral-rich and resistant to soap.
As a result, there has been a quiet rush of Spokane-area shoppers heading east on Interstate 90 into Idaho in search of old-school suds.

Meanwhile, while Washington expends taxpayer money on enforcing dish soap regulations, dangerous sex predators are routinely let out of jail because we lack the facilities and funding to keep them in.
The world has gone mad.

Tags: Asshats, Domestic Issues, Politics

http://Array Hannitized

And nobody is saying there wont be any dish soap, just dish soap that is saturated in phosphates.

So you dishes will be clean, just not spotless. We survived all these years without phosphate enriched dish soap.

We will continue to survive and do ourselves good by enabling the purification process to be improved.
Bodhi

You just have to remember comrade, that the government knows best.

Now sit down, relax, and have a Brawndo….
ellenkelly

make some good soap then that you can get clean clothes and clean dishes, before you take it off the market. this is crazy. just something else to cause problems. colorado don*t sell carson granules either but the people like them so they go where they are sold.
Hannitized

COWBOYS used to wash them dishes by hand.

And if you ask Proof, I will be even some of them washed their dishes after goin “a-fishin” and grilling them on the same pan?
jimmypop

when do they ban food? the damage growing that stuff causes HORRID damage to the environment?
ellinas

Hand wash them dishes.
Carol

I know for a fact those green products don’t work. I tried them. Not to save the world but for my allergies!!
http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

Buzz – We went through this yesterday.

Move along…nothing to see here.

That’s what you say every time you have nothing else to say.

“Hannitized” – And nobody is saying there wont be any dish soap, just dish soap that is saturated in phosphates.

Where I live, we have these things called sewage plants that take care of that kind of stuff.

It’s real progressive. You should get on board and leave the Luddite crap behind.
http://twitter.com/r0ckH0pp3r sayanything-3285

this will stimulate the economy in Coeur d’Alene. increase sales of water softeners here in WA.
all good for the economy and ecology!

nope, nothing wrong here!
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Anthony

The government bans dish soap so the Lefties tell us to hand wash the dishes. Whats the point of modern amenities if you can’t use them? Dish sopa gets banned, dish washers stop selling, and suddenly we need to bail out the home appliance manufactures.
Buzz

We went through this yesterday.

Move along…nothing to see here.

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