27.77%	Yes
72.22%	No

Comment: I've seen a tv program, showing the devestation, caused by plasic bags, on sea birds, and fish. We would be much better off to use cloth bags, and better for the ecosystem. from Pensacola. Florida by Dorothy

Comment: Just another way for the government to steal more of your money from Ft Walton, Fl by Carl

Comment: I think instead of penalizing people --why not reward those who use *green bags* ie:money/percentage off purchases-it's a positive reinforcement start!...BTW: I have been using *green bags* for grocery & retail purchases for more than a year. from Pensacola FL by LJ

Comment: I'm from La,after hurr. Katrina all you could see was plastic bags everywhere, hanging in trees filled with stagnet water. Thats not healthy for people, or the environment from Milton,Fl by Remonia

Comment: My daughter went to crochetpaternscentral.com and found info on cutting the bags into loops and hooking the loops together to form a ball of plastic yarn which she is crocheting into a reusable bag. You can use the material for anything you would use yarn for. Recycling and reusing recycled materials is symply a matter of using a little ingenuity. from Cantonment by Roger

Comment: No, I don't think there should be a ban, but I do think it should be easier to recycle. I always reuse my bags, and I also use cloth ones. It should be up to each individual to make up their mind. from Pensacola, FL by Denise

Comment: The DEP shouuld encourage recycling, but a bag tax or ban is rediculous. The problems they use as an excuse for promoting the idea of a tax or ban are minor and do not rise to a problem that needs fixing. from Crestview, FL by Tom

Comment: We don't even have a good recycling system! Who would collect the money? The EPA? I don't think we need bag police and I don't think we need to increase our costs. I strongly oppose this proposal. from Navarre, FL by Barbara

Comment: its about time! they can switch to recycled paper bags... from p'cola fl by h

Comment: More recycling should be done and if the ban were to go into effect then thats more job loss.AND these reusable shopping bags are not made in the USA! What does the USA make any more? from pensacola,fl by Luke

Comment: We need to focus on helpng people instaed of trying to get them unemployed. I think the Sierra club needs to stop smoking what ever they are smoking. Too many issues in the world than a flippin bag. from Pensacola,Fl by Flower

Comment: I support a ban on regulators who want to choke businesses and our freedoms with over-regulation and taxation. from pensacola by james

Comment: no i don't think they should ban us from using those plastic grocery bags. what are we going to use to bring our grocery home in if we don't have those plastic bags. from Gulf Breeze fla by REGINA

Comment: NO. I re-cycle the plastic bags when I walk my dog in the neighborhood and pick up the "droppings" with a plastic bag. from Gulf Breeze by Diane

Comment: how many people are out of work and tallahassee is worried about plastic bags. here's the kicker though i will be able to go buy plastic garbage bags and carry them to my car in my canvas bags. ??????? from crestview by c

Comment: That is ridiculous. What about the fixed income people who go to the grocery store and have to give up some groceries because they have to pay for bags. from Pensacola/FL by Diana

Comment: The plastic bags have many uses such as lining small trash cans and carrying food and water to games or on trips. I wish people would use common sense disposing them. We do not need another tax on the people. from Pensacola by Betty

Comment: someone trying to make a buck off the people again i think we should use paper bags put the timber people back to work from pensacola by t.k.

Comment: Why not just change to paper? However, I always use the used bags for garbage. But if plastic won't "go away," why not just go back to paper? I am, personally, sick and tired of government controlling every area of our lives. I believe we are more in bondage, now, in this country, than our ancestors were in the land they fled before "The Boston Tea Party." We now have tea partieS all over the country. I have to continously remember Psalms 37. My brother had become so distressed about the state of our country, that I sent him a link to Psalms 37. He says he is now reading it everyday and memorizing it. What some dread, is "at the door." from Walnut Hill, FL by E. Marie

Comment: What happened to the paper bag? Stores started to use plastic because it was cheaper. Now the cost of oil is up so the cost of plastic the bag is up. Plastic bags was the worst thing they could have ever used. from Navarre, Fl. by C J

Comment: NO! I think it should be AMERICAN's right to choose and if the MAJORITY thinks it's a public hazard than let's have it on ballot when we vote. I don't like the north coming down here and telling us southerns what to do! from FL by beverly

Comment: We should protect wildlife but more importantly I more care even more about how the media got involved with the Roads Inc and the county commisioners business. I don't understand why they didn't allow a LOCAL company to rebid and keep the money here in our own town instead of making a stink and giving it to a out of state company. That would have been more jobs and more money for Pensacola and don't say it was to inform the public because the public really didn't care who did it but the county commissioners should have been able to change their minds to go with a lower bid. They actually should have went with the local company to start with but now the job isn't going to benefit Pensacola at all thanks to the medias involvement. from Pensacola by Kim