An idea from San Francisco I can really get behind!
Our elite cultural overlords are turning against the bottled water industry they helped create, and I couldn't be happier. Neither could Don Surber, who also finds bottled water a ridiculous idea in a country that provides clean, potable water more or less everywhere all the time, for close to free.
What's behind this little spasm of aqua-rage? SF Mayor Gavin Newsom has banned city offices from buying bottled water, citing environmental impact and the amount of oil required to produce all those plastic bottles. (He doesn't mention the ridiculous markup, but that's another good reason.) Unlike Bloomberg's crackpot ideas for New York, Newsom has the right idea here--rather than banning or taxing something citywide, just set policy for actual government offices, and let private industry follow suit to the degree they feel they ought to.











