Kerry Jackson and Tim AnayaEditor’s note: This has been excerpted with permission from the Pacific Research Institute. To order “The California Left Coast Survivor’s Guide,” click here.
Properly packed survival kits can save lives. Those wanting to survive the Left Coast would be advised to take with them into the wilderness a plastic tube tent, an emergency sleeping bag, a fire source, tinder, a signaling device, light, water, a knife, duct tape and a few other things.
Altogether, the items will weigh about two pounds, can sustain life for 72 hours or more, and are compact enough to be stuffed into a resealable plastic bag.
Well, maybe not in California. Consumer-grade plastic bags have become prohibited goods.
Lawmakers initially banned the highly useful thin-gauge single-use bags in retail stores. They were replaced by bags that are four times thicker and are designed for multiple uses, good for garbage can liners, picking up pet waste, lunch sacks and in an emergency cheap luggage.
But then lawmakers went after those, too. Given the zeal and impetuousness with which they and coastal elitists have tried to eliminate so many modern conveniences, it would surprise no one if they did. California policymakers are at war with plastics of all types, and while it makes for good politics, it doesn’t make good sense.
California is the land of the banned. And plastic bags aren’t the only products to be sacrificed on the steps of the green temple. Other items that are either restricted in some way or are entirely verboten include polystyrene takeout food containers, natural gas connections in new home construction, new gas stations, plastic shampoo and conditioner
bottles in hotels, milk and juice cartons, condiment packages, plastic straws and utensils, and gasoline-powered lawn equipment.
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They want to ban plastics, but love the “single-use plastics” of the power plant world: https://energybadboys.substack.com/p/disposable-power-plants-wind-and
This is why most (if not all) economists or just regular people with any common sense believe that “let consumers decide what to buy”-don’t let the legislatures or other government entities decide for you.
The legislators will and can only think how the banned products affect them (or their aides do)-not how it affects ALL consumers. This might not be because they are mean spirited they just see the trees (themselves, their families and friends) not the forest, ie they ignore and dismiss legitimate reasons to buy something that they hadn’t thought of.
An example: There are many movies out there. Some people like comedies, some musicals, some suspense, some horror. Or maybe some other kinds of movies that star certain cast members. What if the legislature banned only some movies- but didn’t ban the ones it liked?
This is an example that when the legislature bans a product-ANY product- it is actually supressing consumer choice and happiness.
Jewish people-in describing the reasons for the Holocaust-usually point to the apothegm: They came for gays or the handicap or whomever, AND I did nothing. Then when they came for me because I was Jewish, there was no one left to stand up for me.
Let the consumers and sellers decide what is to be purchased and sold. If this continues in California, then this is the beginning of the Avalanche-and not the end.
But but but, you don’t understand! Your betters know what you need before you know you need it. They are, after all, gods to their voters. Right? Right?