A Thin Code indeed, Cindy.

I'm convinced that PepsiCoke's and the grocers' strategy is to block  
any and every proposed change in the bottle bill (except of course  
outright repeal).  If they can't kill the law, then they will settle  
for slowly starving out the redemption centers.  Fleagle & his cohorts  
will never concede a point to the redemption centers,  
environmentalists, and the vast majority (85%) of the public; thus  
Gronstal and Murphy are sniffling through crocodile tears when they  
whimper about needing "consensus" from The Lobby before they can act.  
Don't we elect representatives to LEAD and to FORGE consensus?!  (It's  
been done, I swear!  Why, back in the day...)

Culver did well to drop his 10 cents/8 cents provision.  Beall's  
minimalist proposal to double the handling fee is devilishly simple:   
if it alone were passed, it would of course boost the economics of the  
redemption centers.  But it would also probably eat up most of the  
unclaimed deposits account, diverting much of $17-20 million a year  
from the bottlers & distributors to the redemption centers.  The  
Corporate Green Shaders profess not to care about small change like  
that; they figure they profit much more from straight throughputs of  
aluminum and plastic, with cleanup and recycling cost-shifted to the  
public.  But if the distributors lost their stake in $20 million--that  
might force them to openly side with the public and redemption  
centers.  Take a side for what?  Maybe to go to 10 cents and increase  
the container volume?!  I think that's how they'd have to rebalance  
the equation.

The other big consideration is that if we can move something, we have  
to get as much as we can in this session.  Another "reopening" of the  
bottle bill won't likely happen again for many years.  (It's not  
gambling, after all.)

Bill



Quoting Cindy Hildebrand <[log in to unmask]>:

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> Interesting, Bill.  I don't recall that the current CAFO  law had "consensus
> support from the Lobby," but there it is in the  Iowa Code.   If the
> Legislature waited for "consensus support from the  Lobby" before   
> doing anything, the
> Code would be mighty thin.
>
> Cindy Hildebrand
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> replace, for  fancy, those old-time comforters. In those days, the   
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