Monday, February 06, 2006

But What About "The War on Bottled Water"?

Bottled Water - the $100 Billion Fraud Industry

Yea, yea. Sounds a little dumb, or at the very least, innocuous, but it's actually an interesting and relevant article. (I say as I check my pocket protector and push my glasses back up the bridge of my nose.)

From the article:
"...More fossil fuels are used in packaging the water. Most water bottles are made with polyethylene terephthalate, a plastic derived from crude oil. 'Making bottles to meet Americans' demand for bottled water requires more than 1.5 million barrels of oil annually, enough to fuel some 100,000 U.S. cars for a year'..."

(Via Digg.com)

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