Posted on 03/28/2011 8:58:36 PM PDT by Windflier
Ain't that the truth. Common sense was actually COMMON, only a few decades ago.
As I said upthread, insanity like what we see in today's green movement, is one of the primary reasons the Tea Party sprang up. Americans who still have some of their common sense left, are sick and tired of the drip, drip, drip of liberal idiocies being foisted upon us.
"Green" has nothing whatsoever to do with "saving the planet", and everything to do with transforming America into a totalitarian Socialist police state, where our Constitution and our Bill of Rights are no more.
Asking me that in person is a good way to test my self-control.
Ha. Very good.
I just wonder how much energy it took to sterilize and reuse all those bottles.
But he sincerely believed in his heart that he was an Indian. Really!
‘...and of course there was always Smokey The Bear.”
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Remember back in the day when that commercial said “only you can prevent ‘forest’ fires?” Well, they burned all the damned forests down so now it says “only you can prevent’wildfires’.
Yeah, it’s like washing out the glass jars for recycling. My wife told me, “It’s just a little bit of water.” “It’s just a little bit of glass,” I replied. I honestly don’t know how the equations balance out on this one. I think the critical resource here is landfill.
The very least you'd get out of me would be a serious eye-roll. Depending on my mood, and the circumstance, it might be best if my wife was there to chill me out.
I guarantee you, it took a lot less energy and materials, than simply washing them.
Think about it. Would the bottlers have paid us a redemption fee to turn 'em in, if it was more expensive?
Contrary to popular opinion, there are now more trees growing in America's forests, than there were at the turn of the 19th century. Studies on that have been posted here a bunch of times.
No, it's just the Commie greens trying to take more and more lands out of the control of private hands, and put them under the control of the gubmint. It's for our own good, of course.
“We didn’t take the 300 hp machine, because very few people could even afford a car.”
My parents both had cars since the 20s.
My mother drove a model T to L.A. High in 1923 and my dad drove a model T to San Diego High in 1916.
I had a 1940 coupe with a 3/8x3/8 flathead all ready to go street racing on my 16th birthday in 1952 that I bought and paid for with money I made myself.
The old milk/beer/soda bottles were made from thick, high quality glass with screen printing that certainly cost a pretty penny to manufacture, so it made sense to reuse them back then. (Similar to Pyrex type glass.)
The Model T Ford had a 20 hp engine.
I’m betting that the flatscreens we have today are a lot more efficient than the old thermionic-valve cathode TVs from 60 years ago. Yes, they do use some energy in “off” mode, unless you actually turn the main switch off, but they also don’t take 5 minutes to warm up enough to show a picture. Those old TVs also threw off a lot of (wasted energy) heat, and there was a fair-sized orange glow on the wall behind them from all the tubes inside. And then there’s the whole radiation thing. TVs weren’t safe to sit close to until the mid-70s at least. I’ll take my 35” flattie over a 17” tube-type any day.
At least they wern’t drawn by a horse!
It's GREAT! So totally true!
You nailed it. I remember when I was a kid, 8 to 11 years old, finding soda pop bottles was a great source of income -- the really good ones were worth a dime, the price of an Almond Joy! All the vacant lots and roadsides were kept a lot more litter-free because of us kids scrounging for bottles to take back to the store for cash, which which we would immediately buy the candy that our mothers would never let us have!
The cashier was totally out of line. My response probably would have been: “Who cares, I don’t have that may years left.”/s
The cashier is there to cashier, not to lecture me nor anyone else on anything, including the "environmental impact" of my choices.
I don't mind a cashier asking about a product I'm buying ("Do you like that brand? I've thought about it but haven't tried it yet") or commenting favorably ("Oh, I just love that cereal, my whole family thinks it's the best ever") but no disapproving lectures about anything, period.
The man would then feed this to his hogs; he rotated the pens for the hogs and grew food stuffs after the fecal matter was properly processed into the soil, he fed the folks that paid him to take away his fertilizer; he then slaughtered the hogs and fed the folks that paid him to take away the hog feed.
Recycling for a profit!
In Omaha, they don’t let us recycle glass anymore; I guess it’s so the recyclers don’t get cut up.
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