Beer and wine were drunk in many areas, and cultures, because the WATER would kill you. Given the rush to deregulation, and eliminating environmental laws, the repubtards in the House are pushing to return us there.
I’ve lived most of my life in areas where water is precious, limited, and hard to get. In the next 40 years, AMERICANS, in major cities, may see water soar in price, and not just bottled water, that is typically JUST FILTERED TAP WATER SOLD TO MORONS! Interestingly, N.Y. City has the best rated water in multiple purity and taste tests, and it just TAP water!!
@Ottodesu et alI was thinking that perhaps the running tap symbolises that they had to give up bottled water, too?If we saw them toasting with glasses of water without a running tap in the background, we might presume bottled water, making them out to be snobs and that would undermine the whole premise of the cartoon!I think. Hmm, anyway. A bottle of champagne can be bought for $5.Then it’s likely not to be Champagne; bubbly/sparkling wine, sure, but not Champagne.Unlimited clean water is at our fingertipsThe energy required to do this is quite high & expensive. I remembering reading about Arabic countries doing this (and towing in icebergs) in the ’70s already.
Of course not. I grew up in the Florida Keys; water there is expensive, and you learned to conserve just to keep your water bill down to manageable (for your own budget) levels! Every single drop used there is piped in from Homestead, from Key Largo to Key West! If anything were to happen to that pipeline, everyone down in that region would be using bottled water to brush their teeth! (They’d be using the Ocean/Gulf water to power the toilets.)NOW do you see why I’m an Environmentalist?
Ketira: Just to let you know I enjoy “give and take” with folks who may not “agree” on all issues, it’s far more fun, as long as both sides listen, and “agree to disagree” at times.
South Florida, and the Keys, face increasing environmental problems, largely as you’re aware due to that thing called “carrying capacity”. We humans can abide living shoulder to shoulder in crowded conditions (okay, I can’t), but we have to pay attention to the old “rat in the closed habitat” issue, and haven’t so far, especially in the “conservative community” which is certainly NOT the “conservation community”.
aguirra3 almost 12 years ago
Let me guess…soon you libs will want to tax their water…and you environmentalists are mad they left the water running…
SwimsWithSharks almost 12 years ago
Money down the drain.
Ottodesu almost 12 years ago
Grew up on a farm that got wiped out during drought.
Clean water taps left open and flowing straight into the drain make me cringe.
Dapperdan61 Premium Member almost 12 years ago
My home has lost over $100,000 in equity & my 401K tanked along with my job. If this isn’t a depression I don’t know what 1 would like otherwise.
joe vignone almost 12 years ago
Heck of a lot better than a spoiled, entitled, nitwit, frat boy with a “C” average who gave us ECONOMEGEDDON.
Dtroutma almost 12 years ago
Beer and wine were drunk in many areas, and cultures, because the WATER would kill you. Given the rush to deregulation, and eliminating environmental laws, the repubtards in the House are pushing to return us there.
Justice22 almost 12 years ago
There was no way to tell that the minority in the Senate would block everything this president has attempted. —Will be the same next term.
Dtroutma almost 12 years ago
I’ve lived most of my life in areas where water is precious, limited, and hard to get. In the next 40 years, AMERICANS, in major cities, may see water soar in price, and not just bottled water, that is typically JUST FILTERED TAP WATER SOLD TO MORONS! Interestingly, N.Y. City has the best rated water in multiple purity and taste tests, and it just TAP water!!
cjr53 almost 12 years ago
They must be wealthy to let the water run like that after they’ve filled the glasses.
OmqR-IV.0 almost 12 years ago
@Ottodesu et alI was thinking that perhaps the running tap symbolises that they had to give up bottled water, too?If we saw them toasting with glasses of water without a running tap in the background, we might presume bottled water, making them out to be snobs and that would undermine the whole premise of the cartoon!I think. Hmm, anyway. A bottle of champagne can be bought for $5.Then it’s likely not to be Champagne; bubbly/sparkling wine, sure, but not Champagne.Unlimited clean water is at our fingertipsThe energy required to do this is quite high & expensive. I remembering reading about Arabic countries doing this (and towing in icebergs) in the ’70s already.
Dtroutma almost 12 years ago
Desalinization requires huge inputs of energy, and the Saudis have been doing it for a long time, very, very, expensive for us here.
Ketira almost 12 years ago
Of course not. I grew up in the Florida Keys; water there is expensive, and you learned to conserve just to keep your water bill down to manageable (for your own budget) levels! Every single drop used there is piped in from Homestead, from Key Largo to Key West! If anything were to happen to that pipeline, everyone down in that region would be using bottled water to brush their teeth! (They’d be using the Ocean/Gulf water to power the toilets.)NOW do you see why I’m an Environmentalist?
Ketira almost 12 years ago
As I’ve told you before: You have yet to prove to me that you are even human.I’m pretty sure you’re an AI somewhere…..
Dtroutma almost 12 years ago
Ketira: Just to let you know I enjoy “give and take” with folks who may not “agree” on all issues, it’s far more fun, as long as both sides listen, and “agree to disagree” at times.
South Florida, and the Keys, face increasing environmental problems, largely as you’re aware due to that thing called “carrying capacity”. We humans can abide living shoulder to shoulder in crowded conditions (okay, I can’t), but we have to pay attention to the old “rat in the closed habitat” issue, and haven’t so far, especially in the “conservative community” which is certainly NOT the “conservation community”.