Progressive wonderland San Francisco, the American leader in social authoritarianism, has already gone after Happy Meals, golf, goldfish, plastic bags and just about everything else.
Now they want to control your water bottles.
Remember when hippies used to be for more freedom? They wanted less rules, like in that “Signs” song by Five Man Electrical Band song. No YouTube video I could find but here is a cover by Tesla:
Their children, creepy progressives, have gone over the top in micromanaging lifestyles for everyone because they feel they are the intellectual elite and therefore will save us all by making sure no one can do anything that does not match their cultural world view. This is a city where naked gay nudists think government is too left wing and controlling. That says something. Now they think the people of Frisco are irresponsible with water bottles. So they need a new law. Mostly it is about command and control of behavior.
“This is the appropriate next step to make it easier for San Franciscans to get out of the bad habit of using environmentally wasteful plastic water bottles and into the good habit of using reusable water containers,” said Board of Supervisors President David Chiu.
Their method seems to work. They have gotten Republican representation down to 14% so they are well on their way to establishing Muammar-Gaddaf-Libya levels of diversity.
Is there any science basis to this effort? Will it lead to less recycling, which used to be a good thing? No. It’s mostly a government mandated subsidy for bottle water spigot manufacturers and a new way to annoy businesses. Even normal left wing people think it’s crazy.
“If you are in an office, your kitchen has a sink, the sink has a faucet and that faucet puts out Hetch Hetchy (reservoir) water,” San Francisco Building Owners and Managers Association representative Ken Cleaveland said. “It’s just one more new law that San Francisco is implementing on top of hundreds of other laws to make, rather force, compliance in sustainable practices.”
SF considering ways to curb plastic water bottles By Fenit Nirappil, Associated Press