Monday, December 23, 2013

Faucet good, hydrant bad....


I'm no fan of U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA), he's a right wing ideologue whose concepts of constitutional, economic, social and civil realities don't match up with mine.

Nevertheless, give credit where credit is due….

Last week Toomey crossed over from the dark side and joined the other Pennsylvania senator, Democrat Bob Casey, to sponsor a bill that would prevent the EPA from implementing a thoughtlessly costly new rule.

Seems the Environmental Protection Agency intended to protect the environment of your throat and mine by requiring local governments everywhere to replace malfunctioning fire hydrants with new, certified, expensive lead-free hydrants, and discard any existing spare hydrant inventory.

As Toomey pointed out, the rationale for this EPA rule was really bogus, namely, that sometimes people drink the water that comes out of fire hydrants, and we don't want anyone drinking lead-contaminated water.


Of course we don't want anyone to routinely drink lead-contaminated water.

Let's all pledge to resist the impulse to drink water directly from a fire hydrant.

Let the world know: in America, we don't drink water from fire hydrants.

Tell your friends.






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