Just one snow day is estimated to cost Northern US states as much as $2.6 billion in lost wages and $870 million in retail sales, according to IHS Global Insight. Politicians have even lost their jobs for flubbing their snowstorm response.
That’s why we’re using so much road salt. It’s usually mined in reserve-rich states like Kansas or imported from Chile or Canada. Ten times more chlorine and caustic soda (sodium hydroxide) gets slathered on roads and sidewalks than goes into processed foods, according to the US Geological Survey. Continue here....
-- Molly
