Road salt supply low, demand high as winter looms

Associated Press ^ | Sep 29, 2014 2:32 PM EDT | Jeff Karoub

[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. …

[b4its2late]

Darn global warming is making the winters colder. Go figure!

[rfreedom4u]

Road salt?!! We don’t need no stinkin’ road salt. We’ve got globull warming!

[DannyTN]

That’s like rubbing salt in the wound.

[MrB]

Yeah, no need for road salt these days, what with all the global self-righteousness, er, warming.

[Uncle Miltie]

This is impossible because Global Warming....

[thackney]

I was glad when living in Alaska they used sand and gravel to deal with icy roads over salt.

[blackdog]

Sand..........It’s what works, and is local.

[Da Coyote]

Spread some on the Obamadork.

He’ll shrivel up and rot like the slug that he is.

[GraceG]

Farnmer’s Almanac Sez COLD SNOWY WINTER...

Famer’s Almanac is more accurate than their models, LOL

If you can work from home this winter consider yourself blessed...

[Olog-hai]

The Magic 8-Ball is more accurate than any UN “climate model”.

[cripplecreek]

Replenishing stockpiles is proving challenging, especially for some Midwestern states.

It shouldn't be. Its not like there's an actual shortage.

[Red Badger]

Sand.
Call Florida.
We have plenty..........

[familyop]

They have to keep the automotive industry on foreign soil going. The more road salt, the sooner the desperate will seek more mortgages on $40,000+ vehicles.

[Olog-hai]

At Arctic temps, alkali-halide salts can’t melt ice, that’s why.

[Darksheare]

Let us also not forget that certain states reduced their order for ice melting compounds based solely off of the claims of global warming, with hilarious results.

[Olog-hai]

Shortage, no, but they’re raising the prices, most likely due to the average fuel prices and the government bureaucracies piling on more regulations.

[thackney]

And its use helped prevent my fenders from melting as well.

[Celtic Conservative]

I was gonna say, the salt reserves under Michigan and Ontario are one of the biggest on the planet.

CC

[1Old Pro]

I have an idea, California can use reverse osmosis on ocean water to purify and use to solve their water shortage and they can sell salt to the Northern statesto defray the desalination costs.