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Suck on this. 03 May 08

It is currently 12:20am on Prince Edward Island, and the only sound that can be heard for miles is that of  pop cans being opened legally. I could write a long winded article about how cans and plastic bottles are bad and soda makes people fat, but no one is listening because they are hopped up on their carbonated sugar water. For 25 years, can pop and beer have been illegal on PEI. I maybe wrong, but no one ever died from lack of aluminum can in their life. PEI had a great thing going for them. Glass bottles were safe, environmentally friendly, reusable and it was something else that made PEI a little bit different from the rest of Canada. Why get rid of a good thing?

1. Because it is expensive… Things that are not healthy for you should be expensive; perhaps to deter people from buying them. Now that pop is cheap people will consume more pop, raising the obesity rate,  diabetes will skyrocket- especially in children thus causing your tax dollars to increase.
2. Everywhere else has cans… Insert bridge jumping analogy here.
3. Cans are more convenient… Tell that to the people at Siemens Bottling Company who lost there job,  to people that now have to drive out of their way to return bottles, instead of taking them to there local grocery store or the people who pick up other peoples litter. At least with a glass bottle, you were less reluctant to throw it out your car window

With the perks of canned pop comes the dreaded dime deposit, nickel return. Say you drink 3 pop a day, that is $109.50 in deposits, but you are only getting $54.75 in return.  According to Wikipedia, the islands population is 139,089 people. Lets assume they all drink 3 pops a day (this is a conservative estimate).  The government profits $7 615 122.75 a year.

It might take Islanders a couple of years to realize this, but the only people who are benifiting from canned pop are

1. Big soft drink corporations like Pepsi and Coke.
2. The PEI government, they are loving that extra nickel.
3. Dentists.
4. Insulin Manufacturers… because drug companies don’t have enough money.

This ClashBang.com article was written by Melissa Montgomery. Melissa is intensely awesome, and pretty rocking.