When you have to pay for something, you are probably careful about not being wasteful with what you’ve bought. For example, if you heat your home with firewood and you know you have just about enough stacked up outside to keep the house warm inside through the cold months of winter, you’re not likely to burn up too much, too soon keeping the house hot during November and December.
Government, of course, isn’t disciplined by such exigencies because it has the ability to make you pay for what it deems necessities – even when there isn’t any necessity.
An excellent example can be seen in the form of the white dust that’s now a common sight all over the road when it hasn’t snowed. Because it might snow. Never mind that no meaningful snow has been predicted. Much less actually fallen. The possibility of flurries is now sufficient to roll the salt trucks – which in many areas are actually liquid brine trucks that “paint” the roads with five or six lines of liquid salt-brine that then evaporates into the white dust or (if it rains) turns into a salty slurry that accelerates the rusting out of the undersides of your vehicle.
First the exhaust system, which isn’t a cheap thing to replace anymore on account of the usually multiple catalytic converters and 02 sensors. The hangars and clamps rot first, often resulting in parts of the system hanging low, dragging on the road – and then falling off.
The fuel and brake lines are victims, too. These are usually made of steel – not stainless – and after about six or seven years of being bathed in salty brine, they rot through and leak or they just break when you try to work on them, as during a brake job.
As time passes, structural steel begins to show signs of cancer. The first to go often being the radiator support brace and then attachment points on the frame for suspension parts such as leaf spring perches. When the rot reaches the frame itself, the end is at hand. The vehicle is now unsafe to drive and almost certainly will not pass the “safety” inspection required in many states – in which case you will not be able to legally keep driving it.
You might be able to have it welded back into some semblance of its formerly sound self but that is neither easy nor inexpensive and it only buys you some more time. Rust, once it gets a toehold, is as inexorable as a tax once passed that is certain to increase.
All of this is made worse, sooner – because it might snow. Dispatch the brine trucks! Oceans of the stuff are sprayed before a single flake falls. Often, the flakes never fall. But the brine remains – for weeks, until it is finally washed away by a helpful downpour. No seems to mind that thousands – even tens of thousands of gallons – of nasty salt-brine are profligately poured all over “the environment.” Where does all that salt brine go after it rusts out your vehicle’s undersides? Right into the ground. Right into the water table, probably. 
There was a time when government was somewhat constrained in its profligacy by the exigency of having bo more to spend than was budgeted to pay for a thing. But that constraint served to accelerate the profligacy. Because in the world of government, a budget surplus – i.e., not having spent every last cent that was allotted – suggests the amount allotted was too much. This implies less ought to be allocated for the next year’s budget.
Ergo – as the Romans used to say – everything allotted must be spent. Must be used up. Ideally, profligately- in order to make the case for a larger allotment next year.
This business is accelerated in the case of the brine by the latter-day neurosis of the populace, which has been conditioned to panic when they are told by the weather hysteria man that the first snowflake might fall. He is a kind of precursor to the sickness man – and woman – who spread hysteria about the cases! the cases!
Stay home! After, of course, rushing to get bread and milk! The End is Nigh!
And call out the brine trucks!
Can’t be too safe.
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I have a <$1000 car (2005 Dodge Stratus) that I drive on snow/salt days, which are few and far between here in OK. Even then, I always stop by the carwash to get the underside sprayed down. I don't drive my nice car again until after a good rain.
Living in Tennessee there is not a lot of snow but the roads get that brine solution sprayed on them at the slightest hint of winter weather.
For my 79 f150 flatbed I mixed up a solution of phosphoric acid mixed with ethyl alcohol. After pressure washing the frame, axles, springs and driveshaft, the acid mix was liberally sprayed on all exposed metal underneath the truck. Then all was painted with rust converter paint. After that, everything was liberally coated with used motor oil twice over. Now, one yearly, usually in the early autumn it gets another coat of the used motor oil brushed on thoroughly. It has done well protecting the undercarriage and keeps it looking good too.
There is big money in road salt.
I visited a beautiful automotive museum outside of Newport, RI: https://newportcarmuseum.org/#
All the cars in this museum are owned by Gunther and Maggie Bauerman. The Bauermans are super wealthy due to mining and distribution of rock salt, most of which is consumed by dumping on roads.
The DOT’s use the salt to rust out cars and also to rust out their own bridges.
In our eastern urban/burban area, they salt at the thought of snow now, just like you say Eric. It baffles me. Our cars might make it 10-15yrs before they rust out, 20 yrs?, if you baby it. But new cars won’t make it 15-20 anymore anyway.
What I found interesting was our rural western place I saw cars 20yrs old that looked new. Hmmmm, how is that possible, they get snow too. They don’t plow-salt at all unless they get a lot. You drive on the snow in all the neighborhoods, in essence ‘learn to drive’. love it.
The only place they cinder (no salt) is the main county road through town, and little downhills that end at stop signs. It doesn’t prevent the ‘new young drivers’ from taking out your mailbox though, haha…….. but they fix it. 🙂
Also, breathing that stuff in.
When the air is right, I forget what the conditions are, as it’s been some time since I lived in, The City. And, I imagine it varies Greatly from city to city, i.e. are you in a dishpan/bowl, or out on the high plains where the wind blows it all away?
I remember this, it was Not a pleasant thing to breathe in the air which would rise from the freshly salted roads during certain conditions/on certain days. The after effects lasted for quite a few days, too.
Nasty stuff. [It’s, “Safe & effective!” … “Trust us”..] Psft.
“…everything allotted must be spent. Must be used up. Ideally, profligately- in order to make the case for a larger allotment next year.”
Can anyone here think of a single government ‘initiative’ that does not have the incentives – and subsequently the outcomes – exactly back to front?
Because I certainly can’t.
Government is akin to cancer. It grows and grows, until it kills the host.
In the case of the ‘modern & progressive West’, it’s safe to say the end is nigh wherever one cares to look.
[Government is akin to cancer. It grows and grows, until it kills the host.]
Every now and then the people smarten up enough to eliminate it first!
Not too many decades ago, if you were in school and it was snowing, you had to get up early and listen to the radio or TV to find out if your local school jurisdiction decided to cancel school for the day (or issue a 2-hour snow delay). Sometimes the decision wasn’t made until a couple of hours before school started. Now they preemptively cancel school the day before if the weatherman predicts there *might* be snow the next day. As Eric noted, the modern-day emphasis on being preemptive has become ubiquitous, and this mentality was a motivating factor behind making a worst-case assumption over what *might* happen with a “novel” cold virus.
Did they start doing this chicken-shit stuff right around the time the weathermen on the big TeeVee networks started saying things like, “20 million people will be affected” by this or that storm, when formerly they said things like, “snowstorms & power outages in the upper Ohio River Valley” etc?
“Sometimes the decision wasn’t made until a couple of hours before school started. Now they preemptively cancel school the day before”
Watching the TeeVee in the morning to see if school was CXL. Man, you’re taking me back in time like Eric does. …Back when the world & our overlords & their sellout-mouthpieces in the MSM didn’t seem absolutely Batshit Bonkers ’cause we didn’t know any better. …We trusted them.?
Hmm, “a worst-case assumption over what *might* happen”.
How many phrases & words applies to that? Start with the letter P?
Ditto that, Helot –
It was usual back when I was a kid for the kids to wait with baited breath to hear whether school had been cancelled due to snow. It had to actually snow. And – usually – there had to be a lot of it.
We’ve become a nation of scared, neurotic children.
I’m using fluid film. Got the kit and did it myself.
Has to be done every year. that’s ok. Gives me an excuse to get under there and look around.
My previous truck was a 2002 Silverado. For various reasons (primarily the price of gas), I had quit driving it very much, but did use it when it snowed and needed the 4×4 to get to my office. The problem was it got a good coating of salt and it didn’t get washed off since I wasn’t driving it when it had rained. Things on it rusted away, like the bumper, brake lines, even part of the transmission shifter! I was afraid to pull a trailer with it (main reason I keep a truck), so found a 2017 Sierra base model. I just recently had it coated with NH Oil Undercoating (only thing I could find within a reasonable driving distance). I have learned my lesson!
RE: “I just recently had it coated with NH Oil Undercoating”
Imho, you’ll have to do it again sometime. How long, Idk. It’s prolly a secret.
I do know, that whatever trick there is, none of them last all that long.
…Imagine a world, one where vehicles don’t rust out from under you.
It doesn’t have to be like in The Jetson’s with flying cars & all.
Just one where the goobermint doesn’t screw you from both ends.
…Oh wait, I’m dreaming.
All of the coatings need to be touched up every year, I think, except for Blaster Surface Shield, which supposedly sticks well enough to last a couple of years. I don’t drive the truck that much anyway, I’ll probably wear some of the coating off just driving through my farm fields.
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I’m using fluid film. Got the kit and did it myself.
Has to be done every year. that’s ok. Gives me an excuse to get under there and look around.
There is a guy called Repair Geek on youtube that tested a lot of the vehicle coatings, in the end he said Blaster Surface Shield stayed on the best and seemed to last a couple of years. I wanted to do that, but I’m just not able to crawl around under my truck like that anymore without having to check in a hospital afterwards.
I went to grad school at Ohio State, sorry “The Ohio State University”, in Columbus, Ohio. Anyhow, this dumb Southern boy always thought the state & city did a reasonably good job of keeping the roads open in winter. Granted it was at the expense of destroying the underbody of car.
What I learned is that all the damn yankees that move here & who brag about being able to drive in the snow are liars. When the first snowflake fell in Columbus, the city streets and highways were littered with wrecks.
I went to, ‘The City’ today. Dry streets. Haven’t been there for a long long time. …Forget snow, or what part of the country you’re from. I think: people are losing the ability to drive. Period.
I dunno if it’s ’cause The Shot makes a person retarded, or it’s because there’s so many people from other countries & they just don’t care, or if it’s ’cause no one really taught the younger generations how to drive properly.
I think: people are losing the ability to drive. Period.
Snow, just makes it all that much more obvious.
I thought of that one day after arriving home, and swearing every last driver had lost their minds. Or, at the very least they were the ones on the road that particular day. How many vaxed and multiple boosted drivers were literally half brain dead and not aware of anything around them? Wouldn’t that be a kick in the head if TPTB suddenly decided that the vaxed and boosted were unfit to drive?
Seems like Mike is talking about years past. I dunno about where he’s at, seemed to me the people here in Iowa did fairly well in, ‘The Before Times’ during Winter.
There’s always that group of young drivers who are hitting their 1st snow, & older ones who forgot how to drive when the first snowfall comes (esp girls, RG excepted) yet somehow, my driving experience felt different from All the others I’ve ever done.
Notably, when I sat at red lights on busy 4-way intersections of 4-lane streets from all directions as I watched the other drivers.
/… I just saw driving behaviors I had not seen before. Not, ever.
Idiot/Dummkopf/not-paying-attention/stupid-assed driving.
Like. They. Didn’t. Know. HOW. To. Drive.
And now this study comes out about the jabbed: https://slaynews.com/news/bombshell-study-confirms-covid-vaccines-alter-human-behavior/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-newsletter
Same here, Helot –
It really hits home for me when I happen to be driving my old (2002) truck, which is neither powerful nor fast. Yet I find myself having to deal with people in “luxury sport” vehicles who cannot stay in their lane if the road curves – and even when it’s straight – who will tailgate me when the road is straight but then fall way back at the first curve, because they jam on the brakes in every curve. They cannot make a left turn across the road unless there is no oncoming traffic visible. They “merge” by literally stopping in the merge lane with their turn signal on.
It summons my Inner Hulk.
“Don’t make me angry. You do not want to see me when I am angry”. I always loved that show. That and hitchhiker.
Eric, that literally happened to me the other day while I was trying to get on the local death trap section of the interstate. The moron in front of me actually stopped in the merge lane with the turn signal on! I looked in the mirror, the traffic had moved over to allow us to get on (which was kinda amazing in of itself). When the moron finally did get on the interstate, they floored it and sped away at a high rate of speed. I get nervous every time when I have to go to the local urban area now, the moron drivers are everywhere! As I was driving by a side street a few years ago, a moron pulled out just as I going by and side swiped me. Of course, the moron didn’t stop. That was the time I wished I’d had front/side/rear cameras!
Out here they use rock chips to “sand paper” the roads for traction. I always have one of those “bug shields” on my hoods that do nothing about bugs, but protect the hood paint against rock chips.
Having lived below a ski resort, I used to threaten to put a sign on the back of my truck that read: “If you’re passing me, your’re driving too fast”. Usually it was the Kalifornians that were the culprits. One passed me with a car and a Uhaul trailer in black ice conditions. I came around the corner on I-5 and there he was 180^ pointing backwards with his wife jawing at him from the passenger seat. I figured that was enough punishment for him.
I used to live in Vantucky (Vancouver, WA), and, in theory, the county had a budget for salt, sand, and snowplow trucks, but I never saw any of those deployed in four years, even when we had a foot of snow the weekend I had my “it” moment about living there.
(As in, “That’s it, I’m leaving.”)
We lived in the neighborhood behind the abandoned HP campus. It wasn’t like we were in a low rent section of town.
It wasn’t always this way. Back in the 70s they used to just plow enough to make the roads passable, leaving the rest up to you. Now it seems drivers expect the roads to be completely clear, and if they aren’t, they drive like they are anyway, and end up in the ditch. I can’t count how many times I drove by SUVs in the ditch while driving my Miata on 2-4 inches of snow.
I find it amazing as to how many wind up in ditches. I was on my way back from Colorado one fine winter day just after a big snow storm had passed. There were many Trucks, SUV’s and pickup trucks in the ditches. Very many people are driving beyond their ability and following too close. Itz almost like they think their four wheel drive, anti-lock braking systems and stability control systems will get them through any emergency. There is a new crop being born every day.
That is what annoys the hell out of me in these parts. Drivers have no sense to employ the “one car length for every 10 miles an hour” rule. I cringe at the thought that they may rear end me or worse because they have no sense to bsck off. Even worse are the stupid drivers who pull out right in front of me from a side road, and then self righteously expect that I can simply slam on the brakes to avoid running into them because said driver could not be bothered with speeding up.
Just had that experience here, had a dusting, not even enough to bother sweeping off with a broom, yet now there’s more salt on the road than there ever was snow. The spinner/flingers on the trucks here also throw it halfway up your front yard so good luck trying to keep your trees and shrubs alive. Of course all the weather people spent days in advance hyping the “storm” as if it’s the end times so all the lemmings run out to pick the store shelves bare. Stop the world, I want to get off.
‘Of course all the weather people spent days in advance hyping the “storm”’ — Mike in Boston
That’s one thing I don’t miss about the East Coast, where the Lügenpresse hypes the ‘storm of the century’ about once every three years.
Then I found out they lie about nearly everything else, too. 🙁
Its not just salt they’re spraying.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fracking+brine+road&t=fpas&ia=web
At least they are not putting it directly into your drinking water, saying it’s good for you teeth
You mean like FLUORIDE? The CDC calls fluoridated water one of the “Greatest public health achievements of the 20th century”. They probably say the same thing about all these vaccines they’ve added to the childhood (and adulthood) vaccination schedule over the past few decades.
Hi Raymond,
I am grateful that I grew up drinking well water and have well water at my place. It may account for my “hesitancy” with regard to “masks” and “vaccines.”
Did you see the newly released vaccine schedule for children Eric? The CDC lists a mind boggling 32 vaccines to give a child by his or her 2nd birthday. I just cannot fathom it. Never mind the now-adult vaccine list. It just never ends with these people.
Hi Shadow,
Another mind boggling thing about that vaccine schedule for children is the fact that it includes the hepatitis B vaccine, as if a child is going to have sex with someone right after they’re born. Robert F Kennedy Jr also once said that a child would have to weigh 200 some pounds to withstand the amount of HEP B jab given to children right after birth. I don’t know about you, but I’ve NEVER heard of a child who weighed more than 200 pounds when they were born.
Also, I’ve heard of hospitals where parents specifically asked that their newborns NOT be injected with HEP B vaccine only for the hospital to inject HEP B jab into the newborns anyway.
Healthiest kids I know were born at home (well, one was born in the rear seat of the grandfather’s new Ford F150, but that’s a story for another time). Never been to a doctor, no jabs at all. And they are thriving.
As I mentioned to Howard, the road conditions have more to do with where the road goes than the actual conditions. Denver gets a lot of attention, as expected, even though they only get about 3 major snow storms a year. I-70 from Jefferson county to Vail gets most of the resources, then probably US 285 up through Conifer. If there’s snow out on the eastern planes they just shut 70 down until the sun comes back. Not sure what happens down in the south west but from what I’ve seen it’s pretty much drive at your own risk, same as in Grand and Rout county. Big exception to this general rule is hwy 82 from Glenwood Springs to Aspen, except that they still can’t manage to keep it passable until after all the wage slaves get to work.
The rest of the state is actually fairly dry in the winter, and CDOT takes advantage of the post-storm sunshine that almost always comes after a storm. So the commute to work is a nail biter, mostly due to the foolish drivers who aren’t mentally prepared for conditions. But the afternoon is either a washer-draining ride full of glare and mag, or dealing with people who are still spooked from the morning drive, usually some combination of both.
But either way they save the “pretreatment” for the city. You bumpkins out in the mountains can make do with what you’ve got, we can’t be wasting our precious fluids (or pothole repair budget) on your highways.
Milk, bread, and eggs. Don’t forget the eggs. Blizzard French Toast!
And your car must have some form of all wheel/four wheel drive or you are going to die.
I’ve lived in Austin for a decade now, and it always amazes me how just a few inches of snow will paralyze this town.
The much-discussed February 2021 storm was a disaster in Texas mostly because very few people in positions of responsibility for the response were physically present at their workplaces that morning, most “working” from home due to the Koof and double holiday weekend.
You forgot toilet paper, Roscoe. Can’t forget the TP!
And the full tank of gas, even if the X5’s gauge was at 3/4 when they pulled into the station in the HEB (think Texas equivalent of Publix) parking lot.
Parts of Spain recently imposed “Climate lockdowns” over RAINFALL. Had we ended up with Kamala Harris winning last month’s presidential election, she (or whoever would have REALLY been calling the shots) would have almost certainly tried to impose “Climate Lockdowns” in the U.S. But considering that Trump is going to be President instead, many Democrat state governors may try to impose such draconian lockdowns on their own citizens….
https://thehighwire.com/ark-videos/climate-lockdown-over-rain-in-spain/
You are correct, John B. We won’t have “Climate Lockdowns” under Trump…we’ll call them something else…
Hi Mark,
Trump pulled us out of the Paris Climate agreement in his 1st term as President (Joe Biden got us back in it shortly after he became President) and even mocked the whole climate change thing before, so he may not even try to impose “climate lockdowns” on a nationwide scale. However, there are many state Democrat governors who’ve bought into the climate change scam (concocted by billionaire sociopaths such as Bill Gates) and thus may try to IMPOSE “Climate Lockdowns” on their citizens, particularly if it’s to pursue that demented plan called NET ZERO.
Climate lockdowns were once called a CONSPIRACY THEORY until criminally insane governments saw how easily they could get people to comply with the draconian COVID lockdowns and thus floated the idea of “Climate Lockdowns” as a way of “Saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaving the planet”, even though the COVID lockdowns had NO effect on the spread of the dreaded ‘Rona but DID cause MASSIVE damage to modern civilization that we’re STILL feeling today. I suspect that draconian climate lockdowns will have NO effect on “The climate” but instead cause even MORE DAMAGE to modern civilization.
The ultimate goal of “Net Zero” is the elimination of humanity. I think those proposing it should lead by example.
Hi Mark,
Those pushing “Net Zero” want to eliminate people who aren’t billionaire sociopaths such as themselves. You may like a recent Highwire editorial on the corrupt climate change agenda pushed by Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and other billionaires…
https://thehighwire.com/editorial/the-corrupt-agenda-advanced-by-billionaires-gates-bezos-others/
Here’s something else we may have seen coming to the U.S. if we ended up with a Harris-Walz regime. Instead, with the return of Donald Trump as President, many Democrat state governors may try forcing it on their citizens instead…imagine, being told by billionaire sociopaths & criminals in government that YOU must reduce your living standards to “Saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaave the planet”, while THEY continue to FLEECE YOU and live obscenely fancy lifestyles. Well, it’s gonna happen in the UK if it isn’t already…
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/climate/climate-change-committee-in-the-uk-change-your-diet-drive-evs-travel-less/
We were never in the Paris Climate agreement. For the US to be in it, it has to be approved by 2/3 of the Senate. You see the game they are playing? They are trying to acclimate you into thinking that the President has the sole power to make treaties; with the “bad” one supposedly getting us into the treaty and the “good” one getting us out.
Hi Raymond,
The fact that ⅔ of the Senate has to approve international treaties for the U.S. to be in it didn’t seem to stop then President Barack Obama. IIRC, that treaty was also redefined as an “agreement” so Obama and politicians behind that scam could get around the Constitution and get us involved anyway. Kinda like how the government arbitrarily redefined VACCINE so they could fool people into thinking the (then) experimental COVID shot was actually a vaccine instead of a gene therapy jab. The CDC even eventually added it to the childhood vaccination schedule much to protest from people at CDC who still had integrity. Why, there were even people at an FDA vaccine committee who resigned in protest when that agency approved COVID boosters despite little to no evidence supporting boosters.
And recently the WHO and CDC been putting out alarming (mis)information about several diseases in Africa like Marberg, RVS etc. Worse it appears many slugs believe them.
One would think that after their recent attempt to kill everyone, the “People” would be a bit more cautious. Nope, pregnant women are taking a new Hep B ‘vaccine’ that has had zero to little testing. They want to kill/harm the women and babies… again.
The fact we take around 200 vaxxes in our lifetime should be a red flag but apparently most of us aren’t built that way.
You may find this post by Martin Armstrong encouraging. However, people who still listen to whatever the CDC “recommends” and acts accordingly are probably the same ones who think Joe Biden only pardoned his son Hunter because he’s a father who loves his son. It couldn’t be because Hunter (and his dad) committed any CRIMINAL ACTIVITY.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/disease/majority-of-americans-will-not-take-updated-covid-vax/
Back in the 70s we lived in Alaska for several years. They salted nothing but sanded hills and intersections. Studded tires were legal during the winter and we just changed out tires when snow season started. It certainly worked well then. I’m not sure what they do now. Rick Taylor
Oh, the lovely (cough, cough) DOT started adding in the Bryn salt crap up here a few years ago, and I ended up with rust on my old car as a result. The DOT claims that they “only use a little bit of salt” otherwise it is okay. But then again, this is the same DOT that carved so many lines in the ice after a freezing rain storm a few years ago, that they created an uproar due to the damage it was causing to vehicles. For it was akin to driving on enormous pot holes…of the iced kind.
Salted roadways are to the auto makers what highly processed foods are to big pharma. $$$$
Colorado uses magnesium chloride. It’s more expensive than salt but doesn’t corrode the cars. Colorado has lots of sunshine which melts the snow rather quickly, but with the cloudy days in the midwest I suppose mag chloride would be too expensive to use?
Until the last decade or so, Colorado used to throw down a lot of sand, which caused many broken windshields. That’s mostly stopped now because the sand causes air pollution.
Don’t forget that most of the budget for snow control goes to Vail Pass and Eisenhower Tunnel. When it does snow out west of the divide there’s nary a plow to be found. Meanwhile if there’s any snow forecast for the passes they run multiple tandem teams up the summits all day. I remember one time going through a squall from Rifle to Eagle, horrible conditions, no orange trucks anywhere. Then up on Vail Pass they were plowing off the breakdown lane in full sunshine. Thanks for nothin’, heroes.
Someone told me the reason why they work so hard to keep the passes open is because of Vail Hospital. They can’t run unpressurized helicopters over the Continental Divide so they have to keep the roads open for ambulances. Seems like it would be better to just pay to keep a PC-12 and crew on standby over at the airport in Gypsum, but what do I know. Or, you know, maybe make the hospital better?
King air duty.
There’s plenty of company’s that offer rust proofing such as NH Oil Undercoating that appear to work better than hoping it doesn’t rust. Or if you’re handy just mix up some of the older style chainsaw oil, a little graphite to give it some body and cut it with lacquer thinner or just use Fluid Film and a undercoating gun and spray it yourself. Either way you do it your car will rust less no matter how badly it was done compared to doing nothing.
The same government that wants everyone to be “green” yet dumps ungodly amounts of salt/calcium chloride/whatever – which absolutely ends up in the waterways.
Here in the rust belt, the municipal plows will leave giant piles/dumps of salt on roadways near intersections when the spreader hopper keeps spinning when the trucks slows or stops.
Meanwhile, modern snow tires and their phenomenal compounds remain largely ignored in favor of more expensive AWD – on junk all season tires.
That and having to douse all the underside crevices and inside door drain holes of the vehicles with buckets of Fluid Film/Woolwax/Surface Shield every fall to mitigate the rust and crusts.
What a joy.
Flip said… “The same government that wants everyone to be “green” yet dumps ungodly amounts of salt/calcium chloride/whatever – which absolutely ends up in the waterways.” If small Farms were doing that there would be hell to pay for them.