Crazy Monitor Fee!!!!

[Vic]

Originally posted by: Amol

Originally posted by: Jassi
I have been told that you can barely get a burger combo for $8 in California. If that is true, that sum is paltry.

grossly misinformed

I disagree. I was in Northern CA for more than a week around Christmas and the prices for just about everything are considerably higher than up here. Gas, soda, food (both restaurant and grocery), etc. The price of gas was much higher. The price of regular down there was higher than the price of premium here.

BTW (just venting here), fsck you CalTrans for a more than 5 hour delay in your "tire-chain check" lines just so I could take an AWD car up over a mountain pass with almost no snow on it. <^>:|

 

[badmouse]

So, does that mean you can hand them your old dead monitor when you buy the new one, and they'll dispose of it?

 

[shopbruin]

Originally posted by: gabemcg
why don't they just charge it when you go to recyle the damn thing, or junk it. I'd much rather spend that $8 on some shotgun shells, and blow the everloving $hit out of it! that is... if I had a shotgun

they do the exact same thing when you buy any aluminum cans, plastic bottles or glass bottles.

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: freesia39

Originally posted by: gabemcg
why don't they just charge it when you go to recyle the damn thing, or junk it. I'd much rather spend that $8 on some shotgun shells, and blow the everloving $hit out of it! that is... if I had a shotgun

they do the exact same thing when you buy any aluminum cans, plastic bottles or glass bottles.

Nothing like taxing the masses instead of punishing those that choose not to recycle.

 

[Pepsi90919]

Originally posted by: Jassi
Its $8 .....

SHEESH!

your rhetoric is failing you.

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: Wallydraigle

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: tm37
Nope it goes into the general fund.

His $8 will soon be paying for the schooling and health care for our friends to the south who venture up to national city,chula vista, or one of the other school districts./ public heath that has been sued because asking for profof of residence is "discriminory"

Monitor disposal fee to Mexican bashing in 11 posts... amazing!

To atone for my anti-Mexican thoughts in the past I will now perform an act of penance:

I thank thee, oh Mexico, for thy gift to the world of thine Taco Bell, for it is good.

:laugh:

 

[Mookow]

Originally posted by: Vic
BTW (just venting here), fsck you CalTrans for a more than 5 hour delay in your "tire-chain check" lines just so I could take an AWD car up over a mountain pass with almost no snow on it. <^>:|

So what exactly were they checking for? To make sure that you had tire chains, or to make sure that you didnt have them?

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: Mookow

Originally posted by: Vic
BTW (just venting here), fsck you CalTrans for a more than 5 hour delay in your "tire-chain check" lines just so I could take an AWD car up over a mountain pass with almost no snow on it. <^>:|

So what exactly were they checking for? To make sure that you had tire chains, or to make sure that you didnt have them?

They stopped all traffic on I-5 northbound the day after Christmas into a single line checkpoint just north of Redding, CA in order to force all cars to chain up right there on bare pavement. I'm not kidding. The backup was over 4 hours long (there were 2 other checkpoints further along that delayed at least another hour more).
When I finally got into the mountains (past Shasta and through the Siskiyous, about 120+ miles of highway), there was about a foot on the ground, but it was mostly slush and the highway itself was plowed to bare pavement.

I have one word to describe the whole situation, CalTrans, and California drivers in the snow: pathetic. A normally 9 hour drive from Sacramento to Portland took me 16 hours just so some CalTrans worker could try force me to chain up (on bare pavement!) an AWD Subaru with snow tires (and they did try when I finally got to the head of line, even though all their signs said 4WD/AWD with snow-rate tires were exempt). Ridiculous.

But remember that out west here they close the schools if half an inch falls.... :roll:

 

[MySoS]

Vic just wondering where are you from that it is so cheap and so much better than California.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: Vic
California only, been law for a year, actually supposed to be $10, applies to all retail CRT sales, not just those at Costco.

The only thing that ensures is that CA gets $10 on the sale of every monitor/tv. I would be willing to bet that not a penny of that goes to environmental causes and all of it goes to bureaucracy.

 

[Mookow]

Originally posted by: MySoS
Vic just wondering where are you from that it is so cheap and so much better than California.

If you had bothered to click his profile, you'd see he lives in Portland, Oregon.

 

[PKPunk]

so does this mean it will be cheaper to dispose of a old CRT? because I threw away the good'ol 1980's wood pannel TV a year good and the dump charged me a 50 dollar disposal fee for no other reason than it being a CRT. And last year I had to throw away an old monitor and I called around to 5 different dumps in the area and they all qouted me a 50 dollar fee, I ended up just squeezing it into my trash can.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: Vic
They stopped all traffic on I-5 northbound the day after Christmas into a single line checkpoint just north of Redding, CA in order to force all cars to chain up right there on bare pavement. I'm not kidding. The backup was over 4 hours long (there were 2 other checkpoints further along that delayed at least another hour more).
When I finally got into the mountains (past Shasta and through the Siskiyous, about 120+ miles of highway), there was about a foot on the ground, but it was mostly slush and the highway itself was plowed to bare pavement.

I have one word to describe the whole situation, CalTrans, and California drivers in the snow: pathetic. A normally 9 hour drive from Sacramento to Portland took me 16 hours just so some CalTrans worker could try force me to chain up (on bare pavement!) an AWD Subaru with snow tires (and they did try when I finally got to the head of line, even though all their signs said 4WD/AWD with snow-rate tires were exempt). Ridiculous.

But remember that out west here they close the schools if half an inch falls.... :roll:

I was stuck in that EXACT same line going south the day after Christmas. CalTrans SUCKS. "Oh no, there's a half-inch of slush on the ground, heaven help us!"

 

[episodic]

Originally posted by: PKPunk
so does this mean it will be cheaper to dispose of a old CRT? because I threw away the good'ol 1980's wood pannel TV a year good and the dump charged me a 50 dollar disposal fee for no other reason than it being a CRT. And last year I had to throw away an old monitor and I called around to 5 different dumps in the area and they all qouted me a 50 dollar fee, I ended up just squeezing it into my trash can.

Thats what I was thinking, are there not trash cans there?