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Even better solution. Charge $100 to go into the grocery store and that will greatly reduce people driving to stores, shopping and using single-use bags.
by njarboe 5y ago
Even better solution. Charge $100 to go into the grocery store and that will greatly reduce people driving to stores, shopping and using single-use bags.
- temp10298385 5y agoI'm assuming you are being facetious in order to highlight an alleged absurdity of the suggestion. Though in reality the suggestion seems quite sensible to me. Where I am, we've been under the effect of a pretty steep tax on plastic grocery bags that get noticeably passed along to the consumer. The result, from my personal experience, seems to have been a widespread adoption of tote bags. These last a very long time, 5+ years in my own experience. It has not resulted in a decrease in supermarket visits, to the best of my knowledge. Or perhaps I'm misunderstanding your comment.
- imtringued 5y agoI can walk to the grocery store, now I will have to drive to a bigger store because I have to buy everything in bulk. Your fine isn't tied to any externality so it is stupid.