[Zeke]

If you use Google view you can see the number of lawns and swimming pools in SoCal.

Both should be outlawed. I have only 250 sq ft of lawn and it takes too much water for my liking. Soon it will be watered by only gray water. My whole front yard is planted with natural and not thirsty plants. One deep rooted magnolia that shades the house in the morning as well as the low growing plants. I had a feature strip of grass out there that I'm going to hit with Round Up this weekend. I'm tired of dicking around with it when bordered pebbles with stepping stones will serve the same purpose, to allow the mailman to cross the yard w/o having to go down the neighbor's steps and back up mine. He has a tough route when it comes to steps and stairs.

I digress. Lawns suck, literally and there is no need for this. I can wash a car completely using 5 gallons of water and the 2-3 bucket system. Keeping them highly waxed helps a lot. I'm not paying 18 bucks to get my truck washed even if they use the same water for a year. They use a lot of energy which is also part of the problem.

I wash the dishes in the sink and I use the DW as a drying rack. I do lot of stuff like that and So Cal Edison says I use 38% more electricity than 20% my neighbors. I didn't know we had cave men living nearby. I do leave lights on all night as we live in a high crime area. It's not just my neighborhood, which is a very nice historical district, but we are surrounded by what most of Long Beach looks like, a fooking ghetto. Thieves patrol the place like ants.

Cops are nowhere to be found. They're too busy over in the ghetto while some of that population is over here stealing anything they can.

I digress still, sorry. [/rant]