Beet Juice Used on Roads at Delaware Water Gap

While it is so true that the growing season in Pennsylvania has been affected by anthropogenic climate change, the bumper crop of beets has come in handy for the harsh winter.

As even a child of the 97.9% of scientists who agree the science is settled on climate change would know, the harsh cold pre-winter this year is BECAUSE of the warming trend of climate change.

Thus we have deployed a familiar additive to the PENNDOT road treatment of corrosive car body rusting rock salt. Beet juice!

I bet there's an absolutely amazing smell when the 20th car this week that has been driven through beet juice warms up and starts dripping in a nice warm service bay.

Comrade, we've been distilling home brew behind Tractor Barn #2 heard professional disussion on this concept of producing antifreeze from beet juice. It merits further exploration (so long as the Government provides funding).

Pennsylvania is finally catching up to her neighbor in Ohio. This has been in use for years on the roads of Ohio. I don't know if it helps to de-ice the roads but it does have the advantage of making blood stains more difficult to distinguish when the inevitable bad wrecks happen on icy roads. We can't be upsetting the travelling public with gory scenes that will stay with them for a life time. Better to have them believe that it's simply beet juice that they saw.