Man, this is going to really upset all those libs carrying around bottled water in the cup holders of their SUVs
SAN FRANCISCO — Citing environmental concerns, Mayor Gavin Newsom has issued an executive order prohibiting city departments from buying bottled water.
In a decision announced Thursday, Newsom said the ban would take effect July 1 and extend to all city and county water coolers by Dec. 1.
Tony Winnicker, spokesman for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, said Newsom’s decision would save taxpayer money and combat global warming.
More than 40 million gallons of oil are needed to make the plastic water bottles Americans purchase each year, according to data cited in the mayor’s announcement.
How will yuppies survive without their bottled water? The horror! The outrage! The silliness (at least the global warming part.)
I supposed Newsome felt that the city workers, apparently pampered (God forbid they should have to pay for their own water. Woops, sorry, not supposed to mention God in a story about San Francisco), wouldn’t buy into the premise that it costs the taxpayers quite a bit of money to pay for their trendy water.
(SF Gate) In addition to city departments, all city concessions, city-funded events and functions in city buildings will be prohibited from using city money to buy bottled water by July 1. By Dec. 1, all city departments located on city property must switch from bottled water dispensers to dispensers that attach to taps or water pipes and use water from the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park.
Those dispensers cost about $400 each, but the city’s environmental director, Jared Blumenfeld, said that in the long run the cost will be cheaper than the $500,000-a-year bottled water bill the city currently pays.
Saying it is about global warming (snicker) allows the city workers to buy into the plan.
