Comment by ACCount37

Sounds like a way to distract from the real environmental issues with yet another "plastic straws" debacle. A fake issue that makes for some nice headlines in the media - but when you run the numbers, it obviously doesn't matter and never did.

Distract from the real issues like, you know. Clean energy projects in the US being throttled on federal level due to lobbying by the oil companies - lobbying that borders on regulatory capture. At the time when the oil prices are rising globally - and the demand for energy in the US is rising too.

Unfortunately, you can't stop an environmentalist from throwing his weight behind the cause that's being promoted the loudest. So influence groups can just push one meaningless "headline cause" after another, and keep them distracted from anything that matters in perpetuity.