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Old 12-05-2008, 03:34 PM   #6 (permalink)
John Cooper
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Originally Posted by mkpdavies View Post
Actually, I am beginning to doubt Aluminum too.

If taking this stuff and making it into something else was so energy efficient and worthwhile, how come we have to subsidise companies to come and pick it up, clean it and reform it?

If it was so much more efficient, shoudn't the companies be paying us to give them the materials back?
I don't know.

Possibly their energy costs are less than the cost of the effort because of different taxes on labour and energy ?
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