Stuff like this annoys me even as an American. Their Florida example represents a large chunk (probably even a majority) of this country. People driving 5 ton pickup trucks to work and the grocery store. Hot humid climates cooled to frigid temperatures 24x7. Plastic wrapped in plastic wrapped in plastic. Dumping of sewage and pollutants into rivers and lakes on a daily basis. Plenty of states are now banning the inclusion of environmental science and talk about climate in school curriculums.
Meanwhile I live in a state where we are taxed to the teeth for energy use. Plastic straws are banned. We have to sort trash in 5 or 6 different ways. People refuse to acknowledge that their conservation efforts for a year are undone by some guy in Texas in five minutes, and would rather make their (and everyone else's) lives more inconvenient to score brownie points.
Meanwhile I live in a state where we are taxed to the teeth for energy use. Plastic straws are banned. We have to sort trash in 5 or 6 different ways. People refuse to acknowledge that their conservation efforts for a year are undone by some guy in Texas in five minutes, and would rather make their (and everyone else's) lives more inconvenient to score brownie points.