Every parking lot and road is soaked in oil. You can experience it yourself when it first starts to rain, the roads become super slick until enough rain has washed some oil off.
You want to fine and impound the cars of poor people who can’t afford a perfectly sealed vehicle?
It’s illegal in most of Europe to wash your car outside of special parking lots (usually at/near fuel stations) for good reason.
All that oil is a problem. Owning a car should not give you permission to pollute the environment.
Might as well water the flowers in the public park with used motor oil while you’re at it. Dispensing oil is expensive and insisting on proper waste procedure clearly discriminates against poor people.
How is it legal to wash cars in a parking lot? So the soapy runoff just goes straight to the watershed?
Don’t you have laws requiring the water to be sent down the drain for treatment before discharge?
There is far worse shit than a little soap draining off a huge parking lot.
And no, you can’t really treat storm drain runoff. There’s no way to treat billions of gallons fast enough that it doesn’t back up and flood the area.
https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/water-science-school/science/water-qa-how-much-water-falls-during-storm
That’s why you wash cars in special built lots that send the waste water to the sewers.
Nothing else should be draining off the parking lot. If there is, fines should be assessed or cars should be impounded.
Every parking lot and road is soaked in oil. You can experience it yourself when it first starts to rain, the roads become super slick until enough rain has washed some oil off.
You want to fine and impound the cars of poor people who can’t afford a perfectly sealed vehicle?
It’s illegal in most of Europe to wash your car outside of special parking lots (usually at/near fuel stations) for good reason.
All that oil is a problem. Owning a car should not give you permission to pollute the environment.
Might as well water the flowers in the public park with used motor oil while you’re at it. Dispensing oil is expensive and insisting on proper waste procedure clearly discriminates against poor people.
Yes.
We must protect the watershed. The government needs to do their job.