On Dec 28, 10:48*am, Lou Decruss > wrote:
> When I was a kid there were drinking fountains everywhere. *Now
> they're hard to find. *Stores and restaurants want you to buy water.
> I could order from a fast food place and get a glass of water. *Now
> they want to sell you a bottle. *At best they want to charge you for a
> cup. *I see people on the bus, the train, in their cars, jogging,
> shopping, and it seems everyone has a bottle of water!!! *
>
> Where do they think all the plastic is going? *
>
> Now the Chicago city idiots have seen a reason to tax these bottles.
> $.05 a bottle. *Rather that implement a better recycling program they
> just want to make the extra 10.5 million per year in revenue. *If they
> made a deposit on them litter would be eliminated. *But that would
> make too much sense. *
>
> How does your state or country deal with this? *Do you buy bottles of

Chicago isn't a state or country. It's a city.