<VV> salt on the roads

[J R Read_HML]

If you don't salt the roads in the SIX county metro area around Chicago, you 
will bring a gigantic economic machine to a virtual stand still.  I'm sure 
that is true of many other major cities.

If it had anything to do with the price of salt, they'd use something more 
expensive if it could/would keep the roads from turning into pot holes each 
spring.  Fixing the roads is the expense and inconveinence.

Later, JR

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "airvair" <airvair at richnet.net>
To: "richard white" <sarge9444 at yahoo.com>
Cc: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 10:53 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> salt on the roads


> The problem is simply economics. A number of years ago, I read an
> article that stated that salt costs (to buy) about one to two cents per
> pound. Yet it causes 80 cents of damage to cars, bridges, roads, ground
> water, environment, etc., none of which the salt purchaser has to pay
> for dirctly. Environmentally safe salt substitute costs at least as much
> as 24 cents per pound, and is therfore too expensive for the road
> departments to consider. The public hasn't figured out that the pocket
> the road departments have and the pockets that pay for all the damages
> is in the same pair of pants (the public taxpayers.)
>
> -Mark
>
> richard white wrote:
>>
>> Not that I know any thing but couldn't all this salt
>> be contributing to a degradation of the soil? It has
>> to run off too somewhere. You would think the tree
>> huggers would jump on something like this. Perhaps in
>> advertently saving our cars.
>> Rich
>>
>>
>>
>
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