Your dentist must be a Communist.
Posted on 07/26/2007 1:17:56 PM PDT by vadum
"Don't drink the water" is a warning doctors and public health officials typically give travelers going overseas. But lately some environmentalists and city officials have been saying the same thing. Only this time they're trying to prevent American consumers from drinking bottled water.
Their reasoning? The energy used to package and transport imported bottled water contributes to global warming. If environmentalist groups have their way, grocery shelves will no longer carry popular products like Fiji from the South Pacific island and Evian from France.
Companies like Fiji and Evian emphasize the cleanliness and purity of their water. Fiji says its water comes from a source "far from pollution" and is "designed to prevent any possibility of human contact." Evian's spring water comes from the French Alps. You would think this water ought to be an environmentalist's dream.
Instead, their bottles provoke nightmares. Allen Hershkowitz of the Natural Resources Defense Council says, "It's ironic that on some of the labels of the bottles, you see snow-capped mountains and glaciers when in fact the production of the bottle is contributing to global warming, which is melting those snowcaps and those glaciers."
Complaints like that have led San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom to issue an executive order banning city departments from purchasing bottled water, even for water coolers.
And Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson ordered his city's Fire Department to replace the usual chests of bottled water and sports drinks used to quench firefighters' thirst. Every firefighter will now be given a refillable 10-ounce container instead. And, get this, two city personnel will be assigned to fill them as they fight fires. I thought only high-schoolers got the job of water boy.......
FROM: http://www.capitalresearch.org/news/news.html?id=482
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An example of the water filtering lobby at it’s finest. PUR and Kenmore strike again!!!!
Who needs bottled water? Spa snobs willing to pay $18 for a bottle of European glacier meltwater.
I rarely drink bottled water, because I can get it free at work from the ice/water dispenser. Tastes fine.
“contributes to global warming.”
here’s where this idiocy is going. EVERYTHING that living creatures do, including living, contributes to global warming according to the standards of these idiots.
The truth is that the earth is in equilibrium. The earth restores itself to equilibrium after it is disturbed. The earth is in equilibrium with the living creatures on it. Stopping all living activity wouldn’t ultimately change the equilibrium of the earth, and there would be no one here to know it.
But it wouldn’t be a bad idea to encourage the nihilistic leftists to end their parasitic existence on this earth.
Yet.
Normally, if somebody wants to buy water from halfway around the World and somebody is willing to sell it, they would make their transaction and everything would be hunky-dory.
But suppose the Green Weenies have their way, and there is suddenly a law preventing the transportation of bottled water over long distances for sale. Every transaction would have to be evaluated to determine environmental impact. Some would be permitted and some would be forbidden. There would have to be some authority somewhere with the power to tell people what they can produce and what they can buy.
On the very simple matter of water, presumably there would be some kind of a cut off on permissable distance to transport water. Perhaps 500 kilometers would be acceptable, but more than that would be prohibited. If that was the standard, every producer would have to report the production site of every bottle of water, and acceptable locations to sell that water would have to be defined.
Then there is the problem of areas that do not have a viable water production facility within the prescribed radius. These areas would have to be defined and acceptable production sites assigned to them. And if a producer is later sited within one of these specially defined zones, the right to sell water would have to be taken away from the producers outside the zone, because a lower distance producer would then be available.
Of course, the elimination of most producers from any one zone would leave fewer producers at each individual location. This could lead to monopoly behavior by the remaining producers, which would have to be policed. Furthermore, the producers in any one zone might not be able to meet their entire demand. The controlling authority would then have to balance the concerns between the price being bid up unacceptably or water being transported over distances greater than prescribed by the law.
And, of course, low cost producers would have a huge incentive to transport their products farther than permitted by law to sell at inflated prices in the areas where only high cost producers exist. One could predict with certainty that a robust black market would develop almost immediately. This would require a policing authority that could keep track of where each bottle was coming from and where it was coming to. Since the Kwikie Mart two miles down the road might be just within the radius of a particular supplier from one that is not, each individual store would have a unique set of permissable suppliers, so the problem of determining exactly which waters could be sold where would get very complicated.
And we haven’t even gotten into the problem of mobile sellers or water bottles being sold on buses trains or aircraft.
At the end of the day, it would almost certainly be necessary to tax each bottle of water in order to support the bureaucracy that would be required to enforce the transportation limit law. But it’s a small price to pay to save the planet, right?
It's not a mystery. It's not the water you are paying for. It's the packaging and the convenience. Seems simple enough. Having your thirst quenched on the go is worth $1.25, regardless of how many gallons of tap water you can buy with that.
I haven’t bought or consumed bottled water since the 1980’s, and I was ashamed of it then, even filthy stinkin’ rich as we were. My parents never knew, thank heavens.
“Bottled water is bad for young children. I just came back from my dentist who told me there is no fluoridation in bottled water and without it kids get more cavities.”
The fluorides added to municipal water supplies are waste products from the phosphate fertilizer industry; fluorides are poison; fluorides do not prevent tooth decay. People who understand this buy bottled water to avoid the fluorides.
Iceberg ice, now that’s another story.
“You’d besmirch good single-malt with ice? Heathen!”
Right on! No Scotsman would order single-malt other than neat! And no Scotish pub would serve it on the rocks without holding their nose!
Which in turn makes more water... I just ran a computer model on this and it said:
"ZOMG!@!!@# IT'S A FEEDBACK LOOP QUICK TAKE AN AXE AND SEVER THE POWER LINEZ RUNNING TO YOUR HOUSES OR WE'LL ALL DIE!!!@1!@!@!!1"
Uh, they’re talking about people flying overseas. Across the whole dang Atlantic or Pacific and these morons are worried about a few lousy bottles of water causing global warming?
Why don’t they just tell them to stay home if they believe in man-made global warming, er, climate change.
Paisley, one suspects...
the infowarrior
Let it sit a while and the chlorine smell goes away.
Fluoridation prevents tooth decay in young children. Not in adults, but in children, when their teeth are forming. This is 1940s technology, not in dispute.
There is some recent controversy about fluoride being a carcinogen. But if you read the actual literature (versus the scare-sheets put out by the Area 51 types), you’ll see that the minimal and unproven risk of increased cancer versus the certainty of preventing tooth decay makes fluoridated water a good choice for young children today.
Your dentist must be a Communist.
Every liberal I know personally drink bottled water!! Hahahaha!!!
I told him that. That he didn’t care about our Precious Bodily Fluids!
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