Thursday - July 24, 2008

WE MUST ALL DO OUR BIT TO SAVE THE PLANET. SO LET’S GO GWEEN

My first post after an off day and what a coincidence.  Drew has a really terrific post on a subject I was going to lead with based on some doings on this side of the Atlantic.  The lunacy is everywhere and it doesn’t show signs of ending anytime soon.  So may I suggest to all of you that you please do your bit now. Later may be too late.

Follow my example, photo below, and start collecting 100W light bulbs.

Not good enough my light bulb that performs exactly as intended - No - The Gween planet savers want me to change to their more expensive and useless to my needs dim yellow glow.  You folks know what I’m talking about.  Can you honestly read by those eco-friendly bulbs being pushed by the planet savers?
According to their lights I’m an idiot if I reject their arguments with regard to my rejection of their chosen illumination.

There has been serious talk by the EU and it’s being accepted here in UK (of course it is) that the standard and dastardly light that lights well, must go.
They even have a target to the switch off.  Well folks, here’s my answer.

And this is only the beginning. There are only 58 showing here but there are a few more behind, and some 150s not shown.  It has become our policy now to buy 100W light bulbs every week when the wife does a grocery shop at TESCO.  That’s a major chain and I have to tell you honestly they put most of ours back home to shame in some areas.  However, poor,poor Tesco also does some very silly things.  Like caving in to browbeating by a newspaper here called The Daily Mail, which has gotten onto an ecological high horse calling for the restriction or outright banning of plastic grocery bags.

One major grocery chain is now charging customers 10 cents a bag at the checkout.  Tesco for their part, has pulled the stacks of plastic bags from the end of the checkout line, and is putting out three bags at a time.  Customers must ask for more as needed.  Doesn’t matter if you have a cart full of groceries, you must ask for extra bags.  All this in an effort to force ppl to bring their own bags to market.  One problem I see is - how does a customer know exactly from week to week what her/his needs will be?  Just how many of your own bags are you supposed to bring into the store?  Your needs may differ from week to week.  I think I should let my American audience know that over here, most major grocery shops do not use baggers as we do back home.  Customers bag their own stuff altho you can get help if needed.

There’s already one or two small towns that have announced proudly that they are, “Plastic Bag Free.” I’ve no idea how that works or what they’ve done to achieve such an exalted ecological status.

So, my wife went to the market this week and after getting the politically correct three bags, asked for more which they gave her. She pointed out that she had a weeks worth of groceries in her cart, that three bags at a time only succeeded in holding the line up.  Since she was there there at a time when the store
wasn’t too busy and there was nobody else behind her, she started putting only one or two items in a bag and kept asking for more, which they gave with no argument.  Since Tesco caved in to the Daily Mail’s daily harangue, my wife asked why Tesco did not point out the following with regard to the highly damaging, planet destroying plastic bag. 

THESE ARE DEGRADABLE !!! 

THE CASHIER WAS SURPRISED AT THE PRINT ON THE BAG, SAYING HE’D NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE.  I BET TESCO DIDN’T EITHER AND CERTAINLY THE MAIL
DIDN’T EITHER, BEFORE GOING AFTER TESCO TOOTH AND NAIL FOR MONTHS AND MONTHS.  JUST SHOWS YA HOW MUCH RESEARCH THE MAIL DOES, AND HOW SINCERE THEIR POLITICALLY CORRECT CAMPAIGN REALLY IS.

Posted by Drew458     on 07/24/2008 at 08:58 AM   
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