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Default Silly Chicago-Bottled Water Tax

On Dec 28, 11:07 am, jay > wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:48:59 GMT, Lou Decruss wrote:
> > How does your state or country deal with this? Do you buy bottles of
> > water? Do you at least recycle them?

>
> > Here's an article from today's Chicago Tribune. Some silly stuff
> > he

>
> >http://tinyurl.com/27vmgf

>
> > Lou <----off the rant now

>
> The bottled water industry are huge group of thieves. Gasoline is a real
> value in comparison. Some of this "spring" water is bottled straight from
> the tap in the arm pits of Houston, Texas. lol
>
> I have an RO filter system and the water tastes good. Is it good? .. I
> don't know. We only buy the little plastic things when the convenience of
> the carry is needed. It will be interesting to see what Whole Foods does
> next about all that "other" plastic they deal in besides the T-SHIRT sacks.


Here in St. Louis, the water is always in the top tier of best tap
water, some years #1. Buying bottled water here is moronic, yet
people do.

I'd like to see a 25 cent per bottle deposit on it.
>
> jay


--Bryan