Berry Hill egregious taco packaging saga continued (with photos)

So I’m a green freak, but Berry Hill’s (360 & Westlake Dr in Austin) breakfast taco packaging is over the top by any standards. They make McDonald’s DLT burger box look like a Prius next to this Hummer of a to-go order. One would hope that tacos protected by tin foil and Styrofoam and accompanied by a whole utensil set and chips would be a culinary masterpiece.  Sorry, they’re not even that good. If you want great breakfast tacos then go to Texas Honey Ham on Bee Cave. Those tacos are AWESOME and appropriately packaged.

That is a lot of packaging for 6 tacos!

Looks like a lot of food, but is it? No.

The picture below is not a packaging rant because I’m not sure which way makes sense. Ideally, the plastic box would be reusable. We could buy the appropriately packaged cheese and restore it in the convenient box. The strange part is that the price is identical. I would expect that the more durable package costs something extra.  This confirms that retail pricing is not logical – people buy on impression and instinct.

More questionable packaging? Same amount of cheese, but lots more plastic.

Dead horse or just proving the point? alt energy = cheap oil

Several people have sited this New York Times article by Thomas Friedman about Dutch energy independence recently.  The basic theme is that their response to the 70s embargo was to purse energy independence as a national strategy.  Their methods are not 21th century sunshine and light green tech – they are a mix of innovation, stewardship, and smart efficiency improvements.

We can’t just hope that radical innovations solve the energy problem, we need a multifaceted approach with a sound economic model.  Dutch Treat?

Added Note: Another dead horse?  Read Friedman’s call for a national energy independence plan.  He compares our President’s mistaken push to drill more oil to his post-9/11 “go shopping” directive.  Now that was a moment of shining leadership!

And suddenly…it’s a CRISIS!

There is some very bad energy MoJo consistently coming from prominent Republicans (McBush & Gov Perry) calling our current energy situation a Crisis. It’s not – it’s our new way of life get used to it.

Calling it a “crisis” is a transparent attempt to link us back to th 70s and the Jimmy Carter era. I believe that McBush wants us to hook that idealistic, but ineffective president to more recent Presidential hopefuls. The word crisis also implies that it’s a temporary situation that we can “fix” and then go back to our regular lives. Sorry McBush, but the days of wasteful consumption are ending. Welcome to the Age of Constraints.