Please join us. We are making a push to force this to a vote of the people in some cities. Do you realize that NO city councils have put it to a vote of the people? They just pass it onto their citizens “Thou shall not be allowed to use a plastic bag in this manner because we deem it unworthy. Now go deal with it.”

The tragedy here is not so much that a few liberal city council members can be brainwashed to believe the anti-bag lies, but that they have the power and willingness to force this onto their citizens. I’ve attended several city council meetings, and every environmental group shows up in droves, they pull in mushy brained high school kids, and anything else they can do. Meanwhile, a small handful of citizens speak up to try to protect their rights. And the whole time the proponents know that the people will not fight back so they steamroll this through.

In fact, the people speak out EVERY TIME they choose to use a plastic bag.

Join us. Let’s fight back. At least, let’s put this to a vote of the people in a few cities to let the people vote.

On my blog I have a downloads menu item. If you click on that there are a number of papers that I have written that can be downloaded.

One paper titled “Negative Health and Environmental Impacts of Reusable Shopping Bags” deals with the health issues more extensively than you did in the article above. For example, in addition to bacteria, viruses and virus transmission with reusable shopping bags could make other sick. Also, people who have AIDS or a suppressed immune system may be more sensitive to bacteria in reusable bags then people who have normal immune systems. About 20% of the population fit in this category.

Also, when bag bans are implemented people always complain about all those plastic bags that end up in the landfill. But they have never stopped to calculate all the stuff going into a landfill after a plastic carryout bag ban compared to before. It would surprise you to know that 3 to 4 times the amount of material goes into the landfill post ban than pre-ban. Those plastic carryout bags are sure looking good. see my article titled “Fact Sheet – Landfill Impacts” for the details and the calculations.

There is much more on my website.

Eh indeed personality number 3. Eh indeed!

Exactly, Queegster. I agree. You described California’s D-led legislature to a “T”.