Supporters of last year?s plastic bag ban in North Carolina might want to read this brief item from Fortune:
According to Franklin Associates, a waste management firm, it takes four times more energy to produce a paper bag than a plastic one. Think of all those trees being milled and processed.
One points out this information not to offer an endorsement of plastic bags or cloth totes, or to scare you away from driving to Harris Teeter. (You?ll have to follow the link to understand the last disclaimer.)
Instead this blurb illustrates the following fact of political debate: ideas that sound good on paper often fall apart when subjected to increased scrutiny. Too many people refuse to apply that scrutiny, a problem Thomas Sowell describes as a failure to think ?beyond stage one.?
