Fleecing Shoppers’ Green

Commentary Americans unlucky enough to be living in deep blue states are subjected to the Established Church being imposed upon them. One of its articles of faith is that the man-made end of the world is nigh and the faithful must flagellate themselves to atone for their gaseous greenhouse sins. Thus California, for instance, is set to abolish the internal combustion engine by 2035, and its residents are required to do the penance of being forced to buy electric cars that go dead within a few hours and cost a fortune to repair. In New Jersey, however, citizens never imagined that a 2022 ban on free disposable plastic grocery bags (and even on the old-fashioned brown paper shopping bags they replaced), which supposedly would save the Garden State from boiling into a desert wasteland in a few decades, was actually a scam hatched by government and business working together to line the pockets of supermarkets with green millions—green as in currency, not conservation....