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This is a story from KVEO on the plastic bag ban and reuseable bag use in Wal-Mart.

Brownsville Mayor Pat Ahumada:

I am proud to say that I am the Father of that ordiance (plastic bag ban ordinance). It took me two years to pass it. And the city commission finally passed it. And it was well received by the retailers and corporate citizens like Wal-Mart, HEB, and others. Brownsville has been taking the lead. We are the first in the state. Austin has asked for our help to help them pass their ordinance.

Commissioner Camarillo:

It’s a great, great feeling for our of us to see people walk out with reuseable bags and hopes that they’ll come back the following day and the next week bringing their bags and not use plastics. So it’s very, very exciting to see the people excited about the ordinance. They say we’ve actually heard about the ordinance. Trust me. We will bring our bags back. So that’s a good feeling.

According to an article on the KVEO Channel 5 website, Reusable Bags for Brownsville Businesses, Brownsville leaders say the city is the first in the state require all businesses to stop using plastic bags.

FALSE. Laredo and Austin both tried it out.

What’s funny is that so many of the environmentalist wackos in Brownsville say stuff like “I know I’m in the Valley when I start seeing plastic bags in the trees coming on Hwy 77.”

Look at this comment from the Brazos Valley in Central Texas:

I agree that they are an eye sore. It drives me crazy when I drive to parent’s house near Whitney, TX or anywhere for that matter, and see those bags stuck in the trees and the fences. I have even seen cows eating them! In regards to Nancy’s comment: I believe the paper bags are made of recycled paper, so that would help with the concern of having to cut down more trees the meet the demand of the paper bags. If they aren’t, they need to be.

Local environmentalist have even stated that our local flag is the plastic bag. They must be borrowing it from the El Paso Mayor who says the same thing about his city.

Much of the talk of banning plastic bags is to reduce litter in Brownsville. The city of San Francisco banned plastic bags, but it didn’t reduce litter.

According to the American Chemistry Council, a study on San Francisco’s ban, enacted in 2007, showed more people switched to paper bags, which required more energy to produce and generated more waste. The same study points out the city’s own litter audit found the ban didn’t reduce litter.

I’m beginning to think that the surveys and support that the pro-ban people claim exist must be fishy. Are we that much different from Laredo who had no support for this according to this site.

And why didn’t McAllen go through with the plastic bag ban when it was in vogue two years ago?

Answer: Because it’s bad for business.

What does the world outside the Valley think of our Al Gore wannabe Mayor?

A picture is worth a thousand words.

WEIRD!

Al Gore, meet Senator Scott Brown (RT @ihatethemedia) http://is.gd/6GRee #masen #brown #climategate #capandtrade #tcot #tlot

(From the Washington Times)

Can this marriage be saved? The union of junk scientists, on the prowl for government handouts to pay for their computer games, and eager politicians sniffing an enormous new source of tax revenue was a match made in a dark alley. The always gullible mainstream media was the guest at the wedding, and everybody won. Only the public was duped.

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