Impose a plastic bag tax to generate funds for environmental purposes and to less our dependence on oil.

This plastic bag tax would be comprised of a 25 cent fee for each plastic bag used at a store. The purpose of this fee would be to generate funds for environmental purposes and to lessen America's dependence on oil. The funds generated by imposing this tax are impressive. For instance , if each person in the United States accounted for 2 plastic bags a month, then this would account for 630,000,000 plastic bags consumed every month. This is a low estimate. A 25 cent fee on this number would raise $157,500,000 a month or $1,890,000,000 in a year. This little fee would go to help clean up the environment. Soon people not wanting to pay a fee would purchase reusable bags for shopping decreasing the amount of bags consumed.