E-Crazy

I am a liberty loving, environment trashing, warmonger and all so maybe this piece will sound a bit crass but here it goes...

This save the environment thing is getting a bit out of hand, I think. Mesa County started charging $0.42 a pound for electronics to be "sent away" so we quit filling our landfill. My first question is: Who is going to go out in the desert and pick up all the TVs and computer monitors that the public will dump out there to avoid the fee? I'm sure they will become great target practice, targets. My second question is: Who is making the money off this deal? Does the company that Mesa County sends the electronics make money on both sides of the deal, meaning do we pay the company and then the company re-sell the waste to someone who recycles it into a product? I tried to find this information out yesterday, but couldn't find it anywhere. If this recyclable material is valuable, like copper, why don't we get paid for it, instead of us paying them to take it?

Another E-problem I have is all this hype about battery operated and hybrid cars. It is a hazard to dispose of a regular auto batteries. What kind of pollution is it going to be with these giant batteries in these cars? What about the people in auto accidents with these big cells full of acid in there car, is that really safe? I'm sure we can fix the problem by charging the public a couple of thousand bucks to dispose of their car, so they can "recycle it". If people die in an accident involving a battery, we can just call it our contribution to eliminating global warming, reducing their "carbon foot print" to nothing.... Oh wait I forgot, people are carbon so I'm sure we can't bury them because of the hazardous waste thing, and we can't cremate them for fear global warming, what do we do? Soylent green comes to mind.

E-lighting....These lovely little twirly Chinese made bulbs called CFL's aren't they great? I bought a handful of these things an put them in my house because I am cheap, and I wanted to save money on power. The next month Xcel came to my house and changed the electric meter. Now my power bill is $60 more a month, hummmm is it the stupid little bulbs? By the way don't break one, cause you will have to call out the hazmat team to clean it up. I'm sure there is a way to get fee at the landfill for all the mercury we are dumping in there with these bulbs, such a win-win, right? One more thing, did you know that incandescent bulbs give off heat? I wonder how much heat is lost in one's home by the use of CFL as opposed to incandescent bulbs? I guess you better turn up the thermostat so we don't get cold.

So as I wait for the world to collapse from all the environmental problems, that only the Americans are creating, I will be a good boy read my computer screen under the dim glow of CFL lighting, pay my Cap and Trade taxes, drink from a water bottle and eat my soylent green, with no questions asked. Thank you Mr. Gore, oh wise Internet Inventor, Thank you.