Clark: Confessions Of A Soap Bandit

I’m standing in a checkout line at a Post Falls supermarket, watching a nice lady ring up the glossy green boxes of Cascade dishwasher soap that I put in my cart. Ding. Ding. Ding … When she gets to about box five or six I begin feeling a bit self-conscious. So I decide to make a little small talk. “Er, so do a lot of Spokane people come over here to Idaho to buy soap like me?” The checker smiles thinly. Then she repeats the words “a lot” maybe five times. Suddenly, it dawns on me how environmentally irresponsible we soap bandits have been. We shouldn’t all be driving to Idaho to buy phosphate-laden dishwasher soap, which a bunch of eco-fascists have banned for sale in Spokane County. We should carpool. That would be the Al Gore thing to do/ Doug Clark , SR. More here .

Question: Can you blame Washington soap bandits for driving to Idaho to get better detergents for their clothes washing?