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Michael Shermer

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In 1979 I started drinking bottled water. My bottles, however, contained tap water and were nestled in small cages on the frame of my racing bicycle.

Tap water was good enough then because we did not know how much healthier and tastier bottled water is. It must be, because Americans today spend more than $7 billion a year on it, paying 120 to 7,500 times as much per gallon for bottled water as for tap. Bottled prices range from 75 cents to $6 a gallon, versus tap prices that vary from about 80 cents to $6.40 per 1,000 gallons. We wouldn't invest that for nothing, would we?


This article was originally published with the title Bottled Twaddle.



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    We are David Harms and James Benson and staff of Twaddle Magazine Live a stupid magazine & radio show. We like to hate on people w/ talent who refuse us & enjoy objectifying women cause we have no talent! We like to spread lies in an unethical immoral manner for sensation to promote ourselves! How lame!!!


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  2. 2. Twaddle Magazine Live 04:12 PM 9/16/10

    We are David Harms and James Benson and staff of Twaddle Magazine Live a stupid magazine & radio show. We like to hate on people w/ talent who refuse us & enjoy objectifying women cause we have no talent! We like to spread lies in an unethical immoral manner for sensation to promote ourselves! How lame!!!


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  3. 3. Twaddle Magazine Live 04:13 PM 9/16/10

    We are David Harms and James Benson and staff of Twaddle Magazine Live a stupid magazine & radio show. We like to hate on people w/ talent who refuse us & enjoy objectifying women cause we have no talent! We like to spread lies in an unethical immoral manner for sensation to promote ourselves! How lame!!!


    Read more: http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=550708673&blogId=539191723#ixzz0zix1rNlq

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