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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 08:39 PM Original message |
Australian town set to ban bottled water |
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junior college (290 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 08:48 PM Response to Original message |
1. Sounds reasonable |
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Wabbajack_ (669 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 10:29 PM Response to Reply #1 |
9. Sounds like fascism to me |
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Lautremont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 10:33 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Yeah, like the way they make you put mufflers on cars! Fascism! |
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rpannier (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 02:10 AM Response to Reply #10 |
20. I'm sure that if you go back to when they were made mandatory you'd find Ronald Reagan doing |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-10-09 06:29 PM Response to Reply #10 |
36. They make you put mufflers on electric cars? |
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Hissyspit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 10:45 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. Why can't I have my own personal nuclear warhead? I want my own personal nuclear warhead. |
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Wabbajack_ (669 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 10:57 PM Response to Reply #13 |
17. A nuke is not a bottle of water, save the sarcasm |
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Hissyspit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 11:01 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. Wasn't sarcasm. |
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Divine Discontent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 05:35 PM Response to Reply #19 |
46. you are.... |
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Nihil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 07:59 AM Response to Reply #17 |
27. On the other hand ... |
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Wabbajack_ (669 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-10-09 04:39 PM Response to Reply #27 |
33. You are the "stupid" one if you |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 12:27 PM Response to Reply #33 |
44. This isn't Libertarian Underground, BTW. |
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Nihil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 06:56 AM Response to Reply #33 |
47. Thanks for proving your ignorance (yet again) |
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Chulanowa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 02:33 AM Response to Reply #9 |
21. Denying you the right to fuck up your neighbors is Fascism, damn right! |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 12:25 PM Response to Reply #9 |
43. Yeah, because only fascists think drinking water shouldn't be sold for profit. |
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canetoad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 08:48 PM Response to Original message |
2. As someone who has never |
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handmade34 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 09:00 PM Response to Original message |
3. good move. we must ban it and refuse to let corporations |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 09:13 PM Response to Original message |
4. This just in: NSW Premier Nathan Rees bans bottled water |
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2Design (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 09:21 PM Response to Original message |
5. I don't get this - drinking water is better than soda or beer - there are a lot more of |
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lindisfarne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 10:00 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. I've never seen beer in a plastic bottle.Litterers will litter,regardless.We might as well ban milk |
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rpannier (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 10:25 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. It's more common if you live overseas to see beer and some other distilled spirits in plastic bottle |
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lindisfarne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 10:41 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. Live & learn. If wine can come in a cardboard box, I guess beer can come in a plastic bottle.I can't |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 10:46 PM Response to Reply #8 |
14. Never seen spirits in a plastic bottles in Oz |
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Art_from_Ark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-10-09 12:32 AM Response to Reply #8 |
32. I've never seen beer sold in plastic bottles in Japan |
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northzax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-10-09 09:16 PM Response to Reply #32 |
38. I bought beer in a plastic bottle just the other day |
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Art_from_Ark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 05:40 AM Response to Reply #38 |
41. You bought your beer in Japan? |
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northzax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 11:49 AM Response to Reply #41 |
42. I have, yes |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 10:49 PM Response to Reply #5 |
16. What's weird is their is bottled water, soda, etc in Sweden... |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 03:44 AM Response to Reply #16 |
25. Sounds like a "bottles don't litter, people do" argument. Nothing weird about |
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2Design (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 01:44 PM Response to Reply #16 |
30. yea - americans are slobs so many times - I watch people |
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northzax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-10-09 09:15 PM Response to Reply #5 |
37. well, in many communities |
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ro1942 (701 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 09:30 PM Response to Original message |
6. great |
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troubledamerican (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 10:35 PM Response to Original message |
11. The film "The Corporation" shows RW think-tankers who want ALL water privatized |
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Teaser (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 10:48 PM Response to Original message |
15. bigger.fish.to.fry |
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Mike K (539 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 10:59 PM Response to Original message |
18. Unnecessary |
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mamaleah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 02:40 AM Response to Original message |
22. What about soda and juice bottles? |
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northzax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-10-09 09:17 PM Response to Reply #22 |
39. does your faucet bring you juice or soda? |
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truthisfreedom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 03:18 AM Response to Original message |
23. Cute. |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 03:37 AM Response to Original message |
24. Following lindisfarne's point, if wine can come in a cardboard box, why can't beer, water and soft |
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kentauros (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 05:01 AM Response to Reply #24 |
26. The problem with "boxed wine" is the use of a type of packaging |
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northzax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-10-09 09:18 PM Response to Reply #26 |
40. and wine isn't carbonated |
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Vidar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 01:27 PM Response to Original message |
28. Good move. We need to put an end to the corporate water wars. |
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Robb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 01:36 PM Response to Original message |
29. I wonder if this is more about the water rights than the bottles. |
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Wednesdays (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 10:32 PM Response to Original message |
31. K&R |
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Violet_Crumble (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-10-09 05:51 PM Response to Original message |
34. I already refuse to buy bottled water... |
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EndersDame (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-10-09 06:22 PM Response to Original message |
35. I bottle my own water The local water taste like swimming pool water |
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iris27 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 05:14 PM Response to Original message |
45. The university where I work started this last year. |
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