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^ Top   #1   05.24.2008

OverDrive "One Sick Puppy"   Member Since: May 2008 Location: Moving Along...... Trucker? EX-10 Years Posts: 2,020 My Trucking Photos: 1 Thanks: 185 Thanked: 616 Times My Truckers Blog : 2

Bottled Water--a waste of resources This is one of my pet peeves, and many of the brands having French names didnt help. People have been weaned from the teat but not from the bottle. I see so many folks (young & old) who carry these bottles around like pacifiers. Read somewhere that bottled water costs more than gas, at about $10/Gal! My neighbor has a Reverse Osmosis system below his kitchen sink, which removes everything, and the water out of it tastes flat. I have just a charcoal filter under my sink, which removes just the chlorine and some metallic tasting elements, and it tastes much better. I have hauled bottled water from 'natural springs' like pumped-up underground water, that was run thru massive reverse osmosis systems; but to get some taste to it was told they added back some minerals. Besides the energy to make this artificial, over-priced water it needs to be put in a plastic container--made from oil! Stat: The Earth Policy Institute estimated that to make the plastic for the bottles burns up something like 1.5 million barrels of oil, enough to power 100,000 cars for a year. Nearly 90 percent of the bottles are not recycled. I have some bottled water in my fridge but for my picky guests. When driving, I use the same plastic bottles and just refill them from my tap or truck stops along the road....

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^ Top   #2   05.24.2008

379 Peterbilt MIA (Banned or Retired)   Member Since: Nov 2005 Location: Wisconsin Trucker? 19 Years Posts: 852 My Trucking Photos: 1 Thanks: 23 Thanked: 61 Times

I have my own well, and it comes straight outta the ground, tastes great. Free. I'll start buying bottled water when 2/3s of the earth is covered with Heineken..

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Phil1Fla Light Load Member   Last Seen: 2 Weeks Ago 03.07 PM Member Since: May 2008 Location: Alachua, Fl Trucker? 35 Years Age: 63 Posts: 272 My Trucking Photos: 0 Thanks: 54 Thanked: 29 Times My Truckers Blog : 6

Quote: Originally Posted by OverDrive I have some bottled water in my fridge but for my picky guests. When driving, I use the same plastic bottles and just refill them from my tap or truck stops along the road.... Well Like you I reuse my water bottles. I only buy when I run out of bottles. they are good for 3 to 6 months. and then they develop cracks.. then when I lose enough I go and buy a cheep case of bottled water. Besides they bottle the Dannon and Coke water 2 miles as the crow flies from my house. So I have the same bottled water as they sell for a lot less. __________________ A thought (The trucking game! Never any rules for the management or DOT and a lot of BS from them. Then all rules for the drivers for we are covered in bull!!!) 73's Phil/KG4JRR

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danc694u "Village Idiot"   Member Since: May 2007 Location: Mississippi Trucker? 23 Years Age: 49 Posts: 8,839 My Trucking Photos: 11 Thanks: 369 Thanked: 2,372 Times

Latest research, I posted a link about a month ago (I ain't digging it out). Shows drinking water from a clear plastic bottle, at a rate of 2 bottles a day. CAN contain the equivalent in chemical content, as 1 birth control pill. Just what us guys need. So, that would explain some of the SF, CA issues __________________ Insuring polititions fear that which goes bump in the night. Seek out their personal homes and family members. -- SU 83 __________________

^ Top   #5   05.24.2008

Phil1Fla Light Load Member   Last Seen: 2 Weeks Ago 03.07 PM Member Since: May 2008 Location: Alachua, Fl Trucker? 35 Years Age: 63 Posts: 272 My Trucking Photos: 0 Thanks: 54 Thanked: 29 Times My Truckers Blog : 6

right. well what else can be said. __________________ A thought (The trucking game! Never any rules for the management or DOT and a lot of BS from them. Then all rules for the drivers for we are covered in bull!!!) 73's Phil/KG4JRR

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