Entry FeedI am the only one who is really, really annoyed by the plastic bag tax?
For lunch today I went through the drive through at Swiss Chalet. They asked if I wanted a bag with that. Are you kidding me? I get charged 5 cents on top of my order at a fast food restaurant? All food should have to be packed in paper. That should haven't been part of this stupid bylaw. I am tired of ordering $40 or $50 worth of food, and having to pay an extra 5 cents for a plastic bad.
Look, I don't want to trash the planet for my kids any more than the next person. However, I am far from being an environmentalist. I actually used to bring my reusable bags to the grocery store before the bylaw was in place. Now, I seldom do, my own private protest against this city that sucks.
I have a hard time believing in global warming, since I haven't seen the docudrama with the polar bear falling into the ocean. Instead, I read Michael Crichton's State of Fear. And I have suffered through the past few years of terrible winters and mediocre summers. (NOTE: This is my first time ever in my life getting snow tires on my vehicle, so my prediction is that it will not be a snowy winter.)
Honestly, I think that almost 7 billion people on our planet is far too many, and we haven't exactly allowed Malthusian Population Checks to really keep our population in check.
It is not that I love wasting plastic bags, or sticking them in land fills for a few hundred years. I just hate ordering from Green Mango and having them ask me if I want a bag with that.