On Mon, 25 May 2015 18:57:23 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2015-05-25 6:46 PM, wrote:
>> On Mon, 25 May 2015 17:15:15 -0400, Dave Smith
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On 2015-05-25 12:29 PM, Paul M. Cook wrote:
>>>> > wrote in message
>>>> ...
>>>>> On Sun, 24 May 2015 19:07:32 -0700, "Paul M. Cook" >
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Plus, when the salt is taken out, what happens to all that salt ?
>>>>
>>>> It has commercial applications.
>>>>
>>>
>>> We throw it on roads in the winter. It can also be sold as "sea salt",
>>> cuz that's what it is.
>>
>> From pics I have seen, it's really bad for rusting out cars though.
>>
>
>It is, but it is better than dealing with the damage from cars sliding
>into each other on icy roads.

True. We have plenty of ice on our roads here (as we do right now) but
we don't use salt here. I have seen sand used here. Personally, even
though the black ice is problematic, I think all in all I prefer that
salt isn't used here, I suppose an exception could be made for really
steep sections of roads though.