<VV> salt on the roads

[airvair]

You missed the point. It DOES have something to do with price, in fact,
everything. As far as the government is concerned, they buy the salt
because that department has to go with the cheap stuff (salt).
Meanwhile, road repairs are handled by another department, and they
can't force the salt-spreading department to use the more expensive
stuff so that road repair won't cost as much. Everybody's looking out
for only his own department's expenses. And at the state level, nobody
has figured out that the two department's pockets are in the same pair
of pants.

I agree the spreading ice-melting stuff is essential in order to keep
the economy going. But my point is that everyone is only looking out for
their own "department" and NOT the big picture, ALL of which is
ultimately paid by *guess who* the taxpayer.

-Mark

J R Read_HML wrote:
> 
> 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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