Re: {OT:} A million bikes in Amsterdam

I have to admit that I guzzle bottled water on occasion, but my work forces almost 95% of my bottled water drinking. I buy the gallon bottles, then refill them at the water machine (or at home) several times before putting them into the Recycle Can that my trash company give me.

I don't prefer bottled water over tap water, I just need water where there is no tap water, and my poor planning for this eventuality forces me to stop at the store to buy a bottle.

If I could plan that far ahead, I'd not have to buy bottled water at all. I would need several of those cans though. Remember, I get my water by the gallon so I can refill with filtered water from the machine for 30 cents. (I actually found a machine where I can refill for 20 cents.)

I go for weeks, months, without bottled water, so keeping the empty container with me seems like a poor idea. I can buy two or three bottles of water per year, use the bottle for a week or two, and still sleep at night. And, when I'm done the bottle is recycled.

Much of my bottled water drinking happens after a long day on the job site, and I stop at 7-11 before getting on the freeway. I could buy a softdrink in the same bottle that water comes in, but I don't really drink softdrinks. And, they don't make softdrinks in the size that I buy water, and softdrinks cost more for the sizes they do make.

I see little viable need for the 500ml bottles of water for about 99% of the population, in this you and I agree. But there is a profile of bottled water usage that makes perfect sense to me, I suppose it's because it's the profile of me.

I hear Japanese are greenish too but not as much as the Dutch.

The Toyotas they dump into the American market is not what they drive.

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