On my commute to work, while I was digging up information for my previous post on the oil we’re burning to make bottled water, I saw this ad for Fiji water, the #2 selling premium water in the U.S. Fiji seems to be the poster child for ridiculous when it comes to [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘environment’
August 19, 2008
Would you like some petroleum with that Evian?
I’ve been running around with a factoid in my head, wondering if it’s true before I start repeating it. The factoid is that it takes a third of a bottle of petroleum to make and deliver a bottle of water.
I was told this about six months ago and hadn’t been able to check the [...]
August 5, 2008
EnergyStar for Cars
U.S. auto sales hit a 16 year low in July, with the double whammy of high gas prices and tight credit hitting U.S. auto makers especially hard. General Motors sales dropped a whopping 27 percent, and GM reported a $15.5 billion loss in the third quarter on revenues of $38 billion. (These are [...]
