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GOP Cancels Biodegradable Packaging, Brings Styrofoam Back
« on: February 28, 2011, 08:53:19 PM »
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GOP Cancels Biodegradable Packaging, Brings Styrofoam Back
Posted by marmar on Mon Feb-28-11 07:37 PM

    Treehugger, via AlterNet:



    GOP Cancels Biodegradable Packaging, Brings Styrofoam Back


    Okay, so it's not exactly earth-shattering green political news -- but it's still indicative of the new anti-environment attitude that's swept into the US House of Representatives. Four years after our nation's esteemed governing body decided to stop using one of the most destructive, ungreen materials in existence, our lawmakers have decided it's time to cancel the program that supported biodegradable packaging, and to bring Styrofoam back.

    Wonkette has a gloriously epic rant:

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   "Foamed polystyrene" is a miraculous invention that manages to be completely awful through every step of its near-eternal "life cycle" -- it is manufactured with petroleum that must be imported from Middle East dictatorships, toxic "styrene oligomers" migrate into the food it holds, it's highly flammable and produces black poisonous smoke, and most of the 25 billion polystyrene cups tossed every year will take more than half a millennium to degrade. And that's why the Republican-led House of Representatives made it an immediate priority to cancel the House cafeteria's four years of biodegradable food and beverage packaging.


    Congress switched to biodegradable packaging, along with a number of other green initiatives like composting, as part of its
    Green the Capital program .................(more)

    The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/509010/gop_cancels_biodegradable_packaging%2C_brings_styrofoam_back /

 :bigbird: take that, envirofreaks.
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Re: GOP Cancels Biodegradable Packaging, Brings Styrofoam Back
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2011, 09:05:28 PM »
So what's the big deal.

Congresscritters want their coffee to stay warm, and to stay in the cups, not on the desk.


Just more DUmmie mental masturbation.  :jerkit:
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Re: GOP Cancels Biodegradable Packaging, Brings Styrofoam Back
« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2011, 09:19:03 PM »
Soooo... Domestic petroleum couldn't be used to make polystyrene foam?  :lmao:
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Re: GOP Cancels Biodegradable Packaging, Brings Styrofoam Back
« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2011, 09:33:23 PM »
GOP saves $500,000,000 a year by cutting out overpriced packaging in the capitol.
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Re: GOP Cancels Biodegradable Packaging, Brings Styrofoam Back
« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2011, 10:06:53 PM »
GOP brings Styrofoam Back to Capital ...

Ok ...

I got another headline that'd be nice to see  ...

GOP finds and brings backbone back to DC ...

I know, know .. of course it'll never happen. :/
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Re: GOP Cancels Biodegradable Packaging, Brings Styrofoam Back
« Reply #5 on: March 01, 2011, 06:19:55 AM »
Well now, one wonders the environmental costs of styrofoam cups in the basement of the Capitol Building as compared with the environmental costs of the disgraced ex-Speaker's personal great big huge luxury military jet.
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Re: GOP Cancels Biodegradable Packaging, Brings Styrofoam Back
« Reply #6 on: March 01, 2011, 07:09:00 AM »
Styrofoam cups?  Really?  Bobo is homeless and all they can gripe about is styrofoam cups??
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Re: GOP Cancels Biodegradable Packaging, Brings Styrofoam Back
« Reply #7 on: March 01, 2011, 07:31:49 AM »
Yes, and Speaker Boehner is allowing smoking on the golf course again.  Now, bring back the real toilets and let us keep our incandescents.  Also, phosphorus in the dishwasher detergent.  Also, f*** the snaildarter and any other creepy crawlie critter that impedes economic activity, including the basic human right of water in that California valley. 
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Re: GOP Cancels Biodegradable Packaging, Brings Styrofoam Back
« Reply #8 on: March 01, 2011, 07:33:50 AM »
Quote from: jukin on February 28, 2011, 09:33:23 PM
GOP saves $500,000,000 a year by cutting out overpriced packaging in the capitol.

Which is necessary to help defray the cost of frivolous lawsuits filed by Dennis "The Menace" Kooksandwich for unnecessary dental repair caused by his own failure to exercise due caution while masticating.  ( wait can I say that on the public interwebz?) :whistling:
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Re: GOP Cancels Biodegradable Packaging, Brings Styrofoam Back
« Reply #9 on: March 01, 2011, 08:35:17 AM »
It ain't easy being green.
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Re: GOP Cancels Biodegradable Packaging, Brings Styrofoam Back
« Reply #10 on: March 01, 2011, 08:51:21 AM »
Quote from: chris_ on March 01, 2011, 08:35:17 AM
It ain't easy being green.

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Re: GOP Cancels Biodegradable Packaging, Brings Styrofoam Back
« Reply #11 on: March 01, 2011, 12:25:40 PM »
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Wait.  What?  This is a treasured American icon of childhood.  WTF? 
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Re: GOP Cancels Biodegradable Packaging, Brings Styrofoam Back
« Reply #12 on: March 01, 2011, 04:26:16 PM »
Quote from: Janice on February 28, 2011, 10:06:53 PM
GOP brings Styrofoam Back to Capital ...

Ok ...

I got another headline that'd be nice to see  ...

GOP finds and brings backbone back to DC ...

I know, know .. of course it'll never happen. :/

I dunno, bringin' back cups that'll keep their coffee warm is a first step. Imagine the Greenie leeches who aren't gonna get that fed subsidy! Why do ya think the DUmp is cryin' in their bong water? It ain't because they're savin' the planet, I guarantee ya!
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Re: GOP Cancels Biodegradable Packaging, Brings Styrofoam Back
« Reply #13 on: March 01, 2011, 07:46:52 PM »
Quote from: diesel driver on February 28, 2011, 09:05:28 PM
So what's the big deal. Congresscritters want their coffee to stay warm, and to stay in the cups, not on the desk.
Just more DUmmie mental masturbation.  :jerkit:
HA! Well said.
This should put the tree huggers panties in a bunch. :hyper:
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