Posted on 07/24/2008 10:25:11 PM PDT by BJungNan
By Wiley Smith; July 24, 2008
Just saw that Los Angeles banned plastic bags and will charge 25 cents for each paper bag the store supplies to customers.
Three percent of the bag fee will be returned to the retailer (0.045 cents), 3 percent (0.045 cents) will go to the state, and the rest (0.16 cents) will go back to the city to fund an education campaign.
Of course, some enterprising individuals likely will be selling the bags for less, buying them at a landed cost of 0.05 cents and doubling their money for a sell price of 0.10 cents a bag - and they will still be under the store mandated sell price of 0.25 cents per bag.
Get your bags here and save! Bags! Bags! Get your bags here!
That is if the vendor wants to sell only paper bags. If that same vendor also sells plastic bags, then he can really make out good. In usual form, government is about to create a cottage industry, and underground market in bags – except it will be above ground because the ordinance does not make it illegal to sell bags.
Except
http://www.desertvalleystar.com/desert_hot_springs_plastic_bags_07-24-08.html
Didn’t they force plastic bags on us for the “ecology” after Jimmy Carter’s gas shortage?
Doesn’t anyone remember that?
I remember Carter. Actually, he gave us so much to remember I don’t remember that. I do remember learning that paper bags took trees, that paper in a land fill, buried in dirt, did not decompose, that you could read a buried newspaper 50 years later.
I think the idea here is to get everyone to carry their own bags to the store but the part about favoring paper over plastic is the perplexing part.
I really have no problem with this. I’ve got two plastic bags stuck in trees in my front yard. They’ve been there for six months. I’ll never get them down, I’ll have to wait. I started bagging my groceries in a cardboard box I get at work. It saves time and when I delivered my mom’s groceries in a box, she exclaimed, “Just like the old days in New York!”
Yep!
Then, the greenies were buying their cloth bags from I THINK Whole Foods. Come to find that some of them had lead in them.
It must be REALLY DIFFICULT to be a liberal...there's a boogie man around every corner.....
Hey, what boogie man? Where did you see him? You sure? Oh wait, I'm not a liberal.
The part about the plastic bags being in trees is a good point. Paper bags would not have been stuck there for six months. Have to give on that point.
I went to 3 stores today and accumulated about 30 plastic bags to add to the million I already have.
I live in L.A. and we have the most idiotic and racist Hispanic city council members, probably second only to San Fran and Newark. I’m looking forward to hoarding paper bags for future sale in 2 years, why not? Probably sell them to some illegal on Sta Monica Blvd for 20C, they wouldn;t even know the difference.
Just put a recycle value on them and the homeless will have a whole new line of work, for cash.
When you go to the grocery store, just tell the bag boy to put everything back in your cart and then have him walk out and put it in the trunk of your car. Leave some boxes in the trunk of your car.
If everyone in LA does this, then the law will be overturned faster than you can say "Do you need some help out?"
Nice stealth tax using enviro-nazism. I expect this will migrate countrywide when the revenue potentials are seen by other city governments.
Any love you have for plastic grocery bags will vanish the DAY you’re driving down the road, and you get one stuck on a flange bolt on your car’s catalytic converter. Your preference for plastic bags will evaporate just as quickly as the stench of melted polycarbonate fills your car.
The plastic hits the hot metal, and it just melts right on there, and that car’s gonna smell like burnt plastic from that moment until the last molecule of it bakes off three thousand or more miles later.
And I don’t care if it turns out to be 2,500 miles; I guarantee it’ll seem like 25,000. I mean you’ll be begging your insurance agent to have the car TOTALED before it’s all over. But they won’t go for that because the junkyard won’t buy a used car with plastic baked onto the exhaust.
So, there you are, out in traffic just stinkin’ up the whole world, and people are lookin’ at you sideways, and rollin’ up their windows at you.
You’re an automotive LEPER!
And the only reason you don’t have to drive around with your head out the window shouting “UNCLEAN!!! UNCLEAN!!!” is that everyone can SMELL you comin’.
So, your buddy from the office pokes his head into your cubicle and says, “Hey, I’m havin’ a big barbecue and pool party at my place this Saturday afternoon. Can you and the family make it?”
“Oh, yeah, I think we’ve got something in the morning, but the afternoon’s clear. We’ll be there. Should I bring anything? Meat? Side dish?”
“Nah, I’ve got the whole menu taken care of. Just do me one favor: park three or four houses down the block. I wouldn’t want the smell from your car to mingle with the beef ribs on the grill.”
“Uuuhhggg.”
And if it was your WIFE’S car??
Oh, man, if it was your wife’s car I’ve got news for you: it’s YOUR car now; she’s goin’ down and get a NEW one that DOESN’T stink. And don’t think she’s gonna let you park your Stinkmobile in HER garage with HER car. Uh-uh. YOU park at the CURB!
On the NEXT block over.
After all that mess, pity the fool who asks you, “Paper or plastic?”
ROFL!!!
I feel your pain!
Glad you liked that.
Just like the stories in the newspaper: it’s all true, but the facts have been changed to protect the guilty.
;-)
I’m still laughin! :-)
When you go to the grocery store, just tell the bag boy to put everything back in your cart and then have him walk out and put it in the trunk of your car. Leave some boxes in the trunk of your car.
If everyone in LA does this, then the law will be overturned faster than you can say "Do you need some help out?"
Brilliant idea...
I would have never expected the kind of responses we are getting here. This one is really funny and the narrative in the other post is pretty entertaining too.
they multiply under the sink. I haven’t caught them in the act, but I know what they are doing down there...
LOL mine are doing the same thing every once in a while I thin them out(genocide) and burn them in my burn barrel I hate plastic bags I always ask for paper.but the wife will take anything they give her.
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