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Why would people want to be so ridiculous. This just harms everything and everyone
This is like saying not recycling is dangerous for the environment. We can recycle until our hands fall off, and the corporations doing the real harm will still destroy the world.
We should all try to be responsible, but let's not be unrealistic.
I think so too, maybe. The issue is that oil in the water system / water table is just more directly damaging than simple plastic etc.
You're also going to pay for it in your rent, as they will increase it even more to cover any extra costs
Here in Malaysia we have people buy back cooking oil so they can turn it into biodiesel. You'll be literally pouring money down the drain, so you can spend more money unclogging it later on.
... 'Building Equity' and 'Investment' are basically the same thing, twice.
Also, given the ongoing housing market collapse in most of the US: lol.
If you rented the median apartment for the last 15 years, instead of paying for a median home mortgage, and put the difference, the savings, into say the stock market?
Your investment would be doing better, on average.
Also oops your homeowners insurance went up by 50% in a year, now your escrow is underfunded, turns out you now live in a flood/fire/hurricane zone, yay climate change!
Yes, very much stability and freedom to personalize in your HOA, which has basically a 90% chance of being a completely corrupt embezzlement/fraud scheme.
Oh and don't forget that you have to pay for all maintenance, your insurance will do its damndest to pay for nothing, and maybe your home built in the last 10 years is just a pile of garbage that you didn't get an independent inspector to check out for flaws before you bought it.
... but yeah its not good to pour oil down your drain, thankfully the ability to have some mason jars or something to pour it into is not exclusive to homeowners.
That one about investing the savings is horse shit. Apartment rent these days is essentially the same cost or more of just buying. Plus, at the end ofnthe say, you still don't have a home. Your saved stock market money still won't be enoughto ever buy one because pricing is inflated now. Plus, you are retiring and don't have a place to love because you have no income to pay rent with.
No, it isn't.
You don't have a home if you get forced into foreclosure either.
You can live a whole life not owning a home.
Over the last 15 years, a 401k you're making steady contributions to, from the gap between then median home mortgage and median rent, that returns more than all the total costs that go into homeownership, and the home's appreciation.
Yeah, this isn't true everywhere, housing markets are local and regional.
But broadly, what I've said is true.
I'd show you the math, but you've already made up your mind, and you're arguing about switching to this strategy now, which is a totally different discussion... so you probably wouldn't be able to keep the math straight anyway.
No, buying is more expensive, that's why people rent. That down payment would be a huge initial investment. Once you're old and your portfolio has grown, you can pay rent anywhere in the world, not just where you earned the house.
You know you can sell a house and get a different one somewhere too right?
Used cooking oils are pretty valuable and draining away them is a waste (and would cause more problems later on for other people). I like to dilute them in diesel and use it as fuel.
That'll be very fun for the municipal waste water treatment and sewer maintenance people I am sure. We love fatbergs!!! /s
Not sure it would be waste management's problem first...
It wasnt in order.
oil down the drain builds up in your p-trap, eventually clogging the drain entirely.
If you, like me, are a homeowner that use to pour your old cooking oil down the drain like an idiot, you might want to consider dumping it into a lined "home depot" bucket of kitty litter. The you just pull out the bag, tie it, and put it in the trash.
Where I live we have special bins to deposit used oil.
yeah but why not save it and use it to make flaming arrows? (unfortunately illegal to do so in California)
Everything fun is banned in california. They're like catholics that way.
well we got weed first.
but yeah, no flaming arrows is a bummer… makes sense with all the wild fires.
Ninja throwing stars being banned is some fucking bullshit though.
and no ferrets just because a couple people taught them how to steal jewels.
and i can only have a fixed blade knife if it’s completely open carry suspended from my waist, but a folding knife is fine (brand new law).
i don’t want to tuck my jacket into my bowie knife handle…
and no fixed blade knives in parks but like, how many people are killed with fixed blades vs folding? like .001%?
You should look up knife laws in Australia if you think California is strict. I just found out about this a few weeks ago, but in most of the country, it's illegal to carry a knife AT ALL unless you have a clear purpose for it. I wouldn't be able to carry the 2.5" folding knife I keep on me at all times if I were Australia unless I was on the clock and expecting to open some packages.
Just as good as throwing Car Batteries into the ocean.
Coming soon to Boston Harbor...
The Boston EV Party
Seems risky, as the landlord might be slow to fix it and you have to deal with stopped up pipes in the meantime. Maybe just dig a hole on the property and dump it in.
If it's good enough for motor oil, it's good enough for vegetable oil.
/s...it's not good for motor oil. Well, it's not good for the environment. Motor oil couldn't care less.
It's good for recycled bio-diesel.
Do you not have ~~water~~ *waste oil depositing sites where you live?
We genuinely do not.
Where I am, it's a bit of a time juggle, only on wednesdays from 7 til 12, but I can bring motor oil, filters, kitchen oil what have you free of charge.
America just hates the environment that much lmao. The best solution available to me is pouring used oil into a plastic bag, double bagging it, and throwing it in the trash.
It might not be you who pays for fixing the pipes (debatable), but it's definitely you who has to deal with not being able to use your pipes for potentially quite a while.
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