Salt on a Margarita glass is the closest I get to the stuff in the winter.
Posted on 09/29/2014 11:51:32 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The reward for surviving last winter’s frigid temperatures and record snowfall, several states are learning, is drastic price increases for road salt—in some cases, five times as expensive as last season.
And that’s even if they can get it.
Replenishing stockpiles is proving challenging, especially for some Midwestern states, after salt supplies were depleted to tame icy roads last winter. Price increases of at least 20 percent have been common in several cities, including Boston and Raleigh, North Carolina. …
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SShhhhhhh, now how are they going to artificially raise prices.
Ever get behind a vehicle on a freshly sanded road? Ever see what’s left of your paint after that?
Totally bogus. There is no shortage. This is all manufactured. Choking off supply is the only way possible to increase the inelastic price of this commodity.
One of the joys of retirement is that I don’t have to go anywhere when the weather goes bad. I can park myself by the living room window and watch the working stiffs slip slide all over the place.
Sand and salt are for two different purposes.
Sand for giving the ice some grip and salt for melting and breaking up the ice.
That huge supply area covering eastern Michigan and Ohio + the western 2/3rds of Pennsylvania and New York also happen to be among the biggest consumers of road salt.
We have a dofus named Tom Wolf who is probably going to be our next governor running adds telling us that the tax money for our schools and public pensions is right underneath our feet-- we just have to start taxing our natural gas deposits.
Meanwhile, his same political ilk won't dig up the salt underneath our feet until we agree to extortion of more local taxes.
Should be plenty of excess salt around. Moochelle has pretty much had it all removed from our food.
I can’t believe some enterprising person has not set up desalination plants using water from those two oceans on both sides of your graphic.
Salt, brine, and sand all have a purpose in helping to make winter roads safer.
A wise motorist will also get snow tires (mounted to cheap steel rims) to use during snow season before swapping wheels again.
I can. Its pointless to do so with all the operational salt mines in existence.
My brother just filled his fuel tank (heating fuel). It’s going for 3.22 a gallon right now
Salt on a Margarita glass is the closest I get to the stuff in the winter.
I'm guessing it's not so much a shortage of salt, as it is of transport to get it where its needed. Farmers have been hit by lack of transport for their grain. Due to rails being used to transport oil, because of lack of pipeline.
Just wait until your property taxes are raised to pay for it.
There’s always a salt shortage at the beginning of winter because there is never a salt reserve from the previous winter. Every road department makes it a point of emphasis to use up all their salt, regardless of snow conditions, at the end of the winter. Leftover salt means a cut in salt budget for the next winter. We can’t have that.
“Sand..........It’s what works, and is local.”
And there is plenty of it. You can dredge the harbors and pump it directly into railroad cars and ship it cross country.
When I lived up north we always used to carry a bag of kitty litter in our trunk in the winter. Works fine on slick spots.
It’s no longer global warming. It’s climate change.
Yeah.... oh well.
Why Al Gore has assured us that there will soon be palm trees growing in North Dakota. Never mind what happened last winter.
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