The city of Los Angeles has banned plastic grocery bags, but requires that stores charge a fee for every paper bag.
Yes, who better to make your business decisions for you than a bunch of idiot politicians who couldn’t run a lemonade stand?
The city of Los Angeles has banned plastic grocery bags, but requires that stores charge a fee for every paper bag.
Yes, who better to make your business decisions for you than a bunch of idiot politicians who couldn’t run a lemonade stand?
I’m pretty sure that if they have to BUY bags, regardless of what they’re made out of, they are already charging you for them. That’s pretty basic business 101 kinda stuff.
What a wonderful way to improve the quality of life for an entire city’s population. No longer will they be forced into the stress of the “paper or plastic” decision.
To improve overall health and reduce overeating in Los Angeles they will adopt the “No-Bag” policy. All patrons must only buy what they can carry in their hands. They will be charged for this bit of help from the Nanny state.
Governor William J. Le Petomane: What the hell is this?
Hedley Lamarr: This is the bill that will ban all plastic bags in Los Angles and convert the state hospital for the insane into the William J. Le Petomane memorial gambling casino for the insane plastic bag-less person.
Governor William J. Le Petomane: [Standing up proudly] Gentlemen, this bill will be a giant step forward in getting rid of plastic bags so we can live in communities that no longer have to deal with the scourge and cost of single use plastic grocery bags…and in the treatment of the insane gambler!
Harrumph!
LA got nothing on SF, where they have been so successful in rationing toilet water that the sewer system does not have enough water to move the solid stuff downstream. Somehow appropriate to think they are drowning in their own…
Bellingham (Washington) did this a while ago. I’m always tempted to buy about $250 worth of groceries and then carry it to my car two or three items at a time, leaving the rest on the cashier’s counter while I make my trips.
Instead I just don’t do most of my shopping in Bellingham
By the way, no exemption for the sellers of antique books. I chatted with a guy who was buying a giant roll of cellophane to wrap the books if it was raining when customers bought them (ie almost all the time up here). yup. That’ll fix the environment.
…and wasn’t it tree huggers who made them switch to plastic in the first place? So at what point are they going to ban hybrids because the amount of pollution they create while being made and unmade? Does it really take these people this long to figure stuff out or do they let it go on for 35 years because they can never admit they’re wrong…..about everything, 180 degrees wrong usually.
* as a perfect example: From TREEHUGGER.com no less.
There was a time when nothing said liberal elitist snot like bottled water and now they’re the ones banning it.
The supposed purposed of the plastic ban and paper bag fee would be to force the consumers into buying (apt to be dirty) reusable shopping bags?
Just remember that Prius drivers are ‘saving the planet.’
Of course, they would save the planet faster if they adhered to the slogan:
“Save the Planet! Go kill yourself.”