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Tax Disposable Batteries

Tuesday, December 11 2007 @ 09:15 PM EST
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We're in the middle of the gifting season. It's time to give a gift your great grandchildren and successive generations will love: stop buying disposable batteries. In fact, it's time to tax the disposable ones into history.

Yes, the aisles are full of them, and more located conveniently at the checkout: a myriad of disposable batteries full of lovely chemicals that do a wondrous job of polluting the environment once they're disposed of. The rechargeable types actually don't cost that much, and chargers are also inexpensive, too. One is only mildly inconvenienced by occasionally having to charge a lithium, NiH, or other rechargeable battery. The 20-packs of AA batteries are a total waste-- and they're actually hazmat. Yet our low-voltage devices, plentiful numbers of them per person, are hungry for power. This year, my friends, make them rechargeable and defeat the battery company foolishness. Let's tax the heck out of non-rechargeable batteries and drive them out of the market place.

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