Rid-X (What is X?)
On TV lately there have been a number of ads for Rid-X (I have no idea what X stands for in this case), a product for septic tanks.
Why are we seeing ads like this? How many people are using septic tanks?
Now, I don't have any facts to back me up -- this is really just a guess.
Maybe the distant suburbs and exurbs don't use sewer systems. Since the design and layout of these places is so poor and inefficient (density is bad in their crazy mindset), running pipes for a sewer system wouldn't make sense. So now each person has to be involved in maintaining their own system (which would mean vast increases in non-point source pollution, but that is a subject for another day)
Of course maybe in the long run this is a good thing. Once all the developments in the exurbs and far out suburbs become uninhabitable (they are designed on the premise of cheap gas, which will not be around much longer), we will realize that it would have been a waste of money to build out a sewer system, for them.
Of course the government still wasted money on roads and other projects to support these soon to be wastelands. (And it is largely the government footing the bill, as a recent Washington Post article points out that developers skip out (default) on their obligations -- hopefully more on this soon)
Why are we seeing ads like this? How many people are using septic tanks?
Now, I don't have any facts to back me up -- this is really just a guess.
Maybe the distant suburbs and exurbs don't use sewer systems. Since the design and layout of these places is so poor and inefficient (density is bad in their crazy mindset), running pipes for a sewer system wouldn't make sense. So now each person has to be involved in maintaining their own system (which would mean vast increases in non-point source pollution, but that is a subject for another day)
Of course maybe in the long run this is a good thing. Once all the developments in the exurbs and far out suburbs become uninhabitable (they are designed on the premise of cheap gas, which will not be around much longer), we will realize that it would have been a waste of money to build out a sewer system, for them.
Of course the government still wasted money on roads and other projects to support these soon to be wastelands. (And it is largely the government footing the bill, as a recent Washington Post article points out that developers skip out (default) on their obligations -- hopefully more on this soon)
posted by Andy Weaver at 22:24
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