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mitch@mills.edu (Mitch Gass) writes:

>I've been avoiding getting a dishwasher for a variety of
>reasons.  Among them is that all the dishwasher soaps 
>I've seen contain phosphates.

Go to a health food store.


>				  I know that using a
>dishwasher uses less water and energy than washing dishes
>by hand; ...

Nonsense.


>	Are there organizations that rate the
>energy efficiency of dishwashers, the way that is done
>with, say, refrigerators?

Elbow grease beats machines every time. When was the last time you saw a
dish in a restaurant clean enough to see your reflection in ?


-- richard

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     "It is obligatory, within the limits of capability, to commend the
      good and forbid evil."     _Kitab_Adab_al-Muridin_, by Suhrawardi

                richard childers          pascal@netcom.com