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For the energy it takes to recycle one paper bag, 84 plastic bags can be recycled instead. Paper bags also take up 7 times the landfill space as plastic. And once in a landfill, plastic bags lock up their carbon while paper bags return their carbon into the atmosphere in the form of greenhouse gases.

In short, liberals are idiots.

For the energy it takes to recycle one paper bag, 84 plastic bags can be recycled instead. Paper bags also take up 7 times the landfill space as plastic. And once in a landfill, plastic bags lock up their carbon while paper bags return their carbon into the atmosphere in the form of greenhouse gases.
In short, liberals are idiots.
In short, liberals are idiots.
In short, liberals are idiots.
In short, liberals are idiots.
In short, liberals are idiots.

All of what you wrote is worth repeating, but part of it is worth repeating over and over again.

Well said.

For the energy it takes to recycle one paper bag, 84 plastic bags can be recycled instead. Paper bags also take up 7 times the landfill space as plastic. And once in a landfill, plastic bags lock up their carbon while paper bags return their carbon into the atmosphere in the form of greenhouse gases.

One more point:

This proves to me that it's not about the "greenhouse gases". That it's NEVER been about the "greenhouse gases".

Just like the bans on e-cigarettes show that anti-smoking is not about the "second hand smoke" and was NEVER about the "second hand smoke".

Well said. The communists in the Austin city counsel banned the bags and most of the businesses have switched to the old style paper sacks with the you’ve-got-to-be-kidding-me handles glued to the top. Same trash, different format - except for the businesses that force me to bring my own sacks to which I respond by taking my business to neighboring towns and therefore increasing my use of fossil fuels.

It is also worth noting that the number of 20 items or less lanes have expanded and the number of full service lanes have shrunk at our local grocery store, so my family is not alone in its refusal to tote our own sacks.

And those reusable grocery bags...yuk. Some of them that people are using trip after trip are really starting to look moldy. I am certain some people are not washing them like they should and they’re are being touched by the baggers who are in turn touching the purchases of everyone in line behind them. The germs left by spoiled meat residue and unwashed fruit can really make you sick.

I have no idea what the Clown Counsel thinks they’ve accomplished, but at least once every few months they find some way to keep us updated on the local news about how wonderfully everyone has adapted to the new bag ban and how great it is for the environment. It’s their regular Kum Ba Yah moment which is a bunch of feel good hogwash that only the self absorbed liberals feel good about.

The rest of us just feel like we had a decision forced on us that we did not agree with by 7 people with way too much power.

Plastic bags only came into existence becaus paper bags were banned in the early 80’s. We had to ban them due to global cooling and to prevent the coming ice age!

Yet, if you question the current envirofascists, then you are the science denier. Never mind that they are wrong EVERY TIME and wrong with EVERY PREDICTION.