Bills Bills Bills

I have a problem with companies like Dell and Pacific Power (I am only picking on them because I am staring at the bills from them right now) who go on and on about how to make your life greener and how I should "GO GREEN! Pay bills online to save paper!" Obviously I have no problem with the concept of using less paper and doing things electronically, I have a problem with them writing that 12 times on an envelope that also includes 4 pages of advertisements. I have a better idea - why don't you money-grubbing whores stop accepting copious amounts of revenue from these advertisers and save the paper yourselves? Or is your game plan to make a few easy bucks from them while simultaneously trying to annoy me until I finally pay online?

Most of my bills I actually do pay online already; Pacific Power is an exception because their website wasn't working for like 3 months and I have never gotten around to doing it since they fixed the site. I did, however, write "fix your website..." in the memo line of one of my checks. Power to the people.

Dell's website is also a pain in the ass to navigate so they can shove their online payment system up their asses. I have a specific issue with them regarding the environmental soundness of their operations. I save paper by paying online but you are manufacturing printers and giving them away like ecstasy at a rave meanwhile charging out the ass for ink. Either poor college kids think they lucked out on a free printer and are losing hundreds of dollars on ink or they are throwing them away a month after they get them in favor of a cheaper option. Sure, maybe they are recycling them but the waste produced by electronics is only partially recyclable: here. China may be the most attractive option for creating a toxic waste shit storm, next to maybe Eugene, but it's still messed up.