Comments on: My newest two cents worth: Proposed Penny Executive Order. Legislation probably not needed http://www.whytheheck.com/2009/01/27/proposed-penny-executive-order-legislation-probably-not-needed/ Sun, 20 May 2012 12:35:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: alewis http://www.whytheheck.com/2009/01/27/proposed-penny-executive-order-legislation-probably-not-needed/comment-page-1/#comment-294 alewis Sat, 31 Jan 2009 18:09:26 +0000 http://www.thinkoob.com/?p=355#comment-294 We do import 2/3 of our zinc. It would shock even this jaded government-watcher if pennies were made out of imported zinc. Still, since there is only a certain amount of zinc in the US, what gets used for pennies can't get used elsewhere, which means someone is importing zinc instead of using domestic supplies because there simply isn't enough domestic zinc to go around. Just because it's not imported doesn't make it OK. Zinc mining -- mining of any type -- is about the worst thing you can do to the environment relative to the value which gets created from the activity. Would you take your nail and scratch a big hole where your skin should be? No? Well, that's what mining is. Look at Butte, Montana. Still has a big hole in it and they haven't mined anything there for years. We do import 2/3 of our zinc. It would shock even this jaded government-watcher if pennies were made out of imported zinc. Still, since there is only a certain amount of zinc in the US, what gets used for pennies can’t get used elsewhere, which means someone is importing zinc instead of using domestic supplies because there simply isn’t enough domestic zinc to go around.

Just because it’s not imported doesn’t make it OK. Zinc mining — mining of any type — is about the worst thing you can do to the environment relative to the value which gets created from the activity. Would you take your nail and scratch a big hole where your skin should be? No? Well, that’s what mining is. Look at Butte, Montana. Still has a big hole in it and they haven’t mined anything there for years.

]]> By: baronefan http://www.whytheheck.com/2009/01/27/proposed-penny-executive-order-legislation-probably-not-needed/comment-page-1/#comment-293 baronefan Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:44:57 +0000 http://www.thinkoob.com/?p=355#comment-293 Michael Barone thinks you're totally cool. That means I think you're totally cool. Someone told me we import the zinc we make the pennies out of -- is this true? Michael Barone thinks you’re totally cool. That means I think you’re totally cool. Someone told me we import the zinc we make the pennies out of — is this true?

]]> By: alewis http://www.whytheheck.com/2009/01/27/proposed-penny-executive-order-legislation-probably-not-needed/comment-page-1/#comment-288 alewis Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:07:39 +0000 http://www.thinkoob.com/?p=355#comment-288 Opposition? I will be very disappointed if the zinc mining bosses don't send their goons either to beat us up, or at a minimum to write scathing letters to the editor. They might even pay off the police force to look the other way while they are working us over. Now I know how Joe Hill must have felt. Opposition? I will be very disappointed if the zinc mining bosses don’t send their goons either to beat us up, or at a minimum to write scathing letters to the editor. They might even pay off the police force to look the other way while they are working us over. Now I know how Joe Hill must have felt.

]]> By: undergrad http://www.whytheheck.com/2009/01/27/proposed-penny-executive-order-legislation-probably-not-needed/comment-page-1/#comment-287 undergrad Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:04:27 +0000 http://www.thinkoob.com/?p=355#comment-287 where is the opposition? What is the argument against this? where is the opposition? What is the argument against this?

]]> By: tomjoyer http://www.whytheheck.com/2009/01/27/proposed-penny-executive-order-legislation-probably-not-needed/comment-page-1/#comment-283 tomjoyer Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:04:53 +0000 http://www.thinkoob.com/?p=355#comment-283 In Canada they recently did away with pennies and no one seems to mind In Canada they recently did away with pennies and no one seems to mind

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