Posted on 12/19/2011 8:43:54 AM PST by freespirited
With the Seattle City Council expected to vote on a plastic bag ban Monday, is it time to bid farewell to something Seattleites use 292 million of a year?
The bill would banish single-use, carryout bags in not just grocery stores, but department stores, clothing stores, liquor stores, drug stores and home improvement stores.
Customers would be able to buy paper bags from retailers for 5 cents each. Customers on food assistance would be exempted from that charge.
With seven of nine council members sponsoring the bill – and support from environmental and grocery-store groups – the future doesn’t look too bright for plastic.
But bags would have a lot of company in a big graveyard of things once common in Seattle, and now legislated out of existence. Were these the good old days? Or a sign of how far we’ve come?
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.seattlepi.com ...
send them to meeeeee. Two paper bags are all the firestarter I need for my woodstove. I always ask for paper!
Well this will sure encourage shopping in seattle.....not!
So, I see. Of, course the trouble is in getting people to buy them.
” Sounds like the Eco-Boost man should meet the Marlboro man in short order...”
Is this gonna be a sequel to Brokeback Mountain?
I suppose we can use duffle bags or our pillow cases. ;-)
It’s the unfortunate name for one of Ford’s new top of the line engines. A 3.5-liter twin-turbo V6 good for 365 horsepower and 420 pounds-feet of torque. It’s an option in top-end F150 pickups, Flex SUVs, and the Taurus SHO sports sedan.
Basically, it gives the power and grunt of Ford’s big truck V8s but the gas mileage of a V6. It’s one hell of a piece of technology and I’ve yet to hear a bad review of one. Unfortunately, Ford stuck it with an “Eco” name.
While I give Ford huge credit for not taking the government cheese the way that GM and Chrysler did, and while they’re probably making the best products of any domestic carmaker right now, their marketing department still pushes the greenie-weenie agenda as hard as anyone. If you go to Ford’s website they really push all the hybrid versions of their cars in your face and talk about how “green” their stuff all is, instead of how well they’re built or how fast they go (or just how good their gas mileage is, etc.).
}:-)4
“Anyone else see a market in people on “food assistance” getting bags for free, and selling them for 3 cents?”
you kidding...that would be work
Well, after some googling it turns out that the typical single-use plastic grocery bag, like one you’d get at Walmart, isn’t biodegradable. However they are photodegradable. That’s not good enough for the enviros, though.
Sounds like something that might have helped congressman WEENner.
Next big thing? Selling plastic bags
Notice that they left out a ban on plastic bags that protect liberal Seattle newspapers from the frequent rain.
Don't ever even think about moving to Austin. They are asking people quit throwing food into the garbage and compost and not even putting it into garbage disposals. That is NOT a joke.
LOL, I sure hope not.
I think Ford and other companies are defensive about their ‘green’ stance these days. We’ve let the liberals write the agenda to the point that it has gotten downright psychotic, the demands and the reactions to them.
Ford has been on my radar, since I had been a Mercury customer back to around 1995. Then they just deleted the brand.
So yes, I like Ford, but this and some of the subjects you touched on do concern me.
Very true and well-said!
...dear God, why? What do they want you to DO with it?
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IIRC, the twin-turbocharged EcoBoost engine was originally going to be called the “Twinforce” V6. Nice. Then gas hit $4 per gallon, and Ford decided to emphasize the gas-saving nature of the engine rather than its relative horsepower...
Ford’s using old-fashioned American ingenuity and advanced technology to make lots of power in a durable engine while using less fuel. And Ford isn’t taking government handouts to stay in business.
I have a Flex, and I’d love to upgrade to the one with the Eco-Boost V6, with 100 more horsepower and the same gas mileage. But, my next planned car purchase is a new Mustang GT with the 412 HP 5.0. :)
That's absolutely true: we keep a large supply of plastic bags for just that purpose. They are also much easier, once so utilized, to tie off and hurl out the car window at the local Occupy protestors.
Great post. It got more reasoned as you went along. Ha...
One thing that should be said, I think it is very appropriate for our auto manufacturers to be implementing engines that operate efficiently, and cut gas consumption.
At highway speeds, it’s great that some of the newer engines take half the cylinders off-line.
If the engines still have the power when they need it, like you intimated, that’s great.
Whatever reduces our oil imports from the Middle-East is just fine with me, as long as it is reasoned like what you addressed.
Keeping Austin Weird is the biggest joke since the hippie movement decided to plant its roots here in the 60s. I hate the leftover 60 movement and that is why we moved out of the city in 1990.
You had better not get caught throwing out a natural Christmas tree. I used to take some and sink them in the fishing wells, but people griped about getting hooks caught in the limbs. They never bitched about all the fish they caught.
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