Wednesday, September 24, 2008

ROAD SALT INDUSTRY IN CRISIS; JOHN MCCAIN TO SUSPEND CAMPAIGN IN RESPONSE


Being lucky enough not to have a home, a car made after 1995, any investments, stocks, equity or possessions with any real value, the economic crisis really hasn't had much of an effect on my life so far. I'm basically a clean pair of pants away from being classified as an "urchin," so I'm just sort of rollin with it and seeing how the whole thing pans out for the Haves.

But now, I see -- every one of us is affected:

The cost of road salt is going up and that's of particular concern for Erie County, which uses more of it annually than any other county in New York State.

"What we're finding for road salt is an increase in price for this coming winter of 30%," said Erie County Public Works Commissioner Gerard J. Sentz.

But, but without our space-age snow-obliterating tecmologies, we'll all end up like Jack Nicholson in the last scene of The Shining by November 15! We're as good as dead, people! AS GOOD AS DEAD.



2 comments:

Sandy said...

can you get me that game for christmas?

Kage said...

Duh. Also, I wonder if it comes with little frozen corpses to scatter on the roadways and put in the tiny abandoned cars.