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		pasttense01 on March 17, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A salt monopoly could spike car accidents in the M... "Salt is a regional business, it’s just not economical to move extremely bulky road salt over land more than 150 miles" This is wrong. Here is a map of salt deposits and production in the U.S. https://panethos.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/4mhrldi.jpg As you can see there are vast areas of the country more than 150 miles away from where salt is mined.

ineedasername on March 17, 2021 [–]

That's a map of "major" deposits. I'm going to guess that there are either 1) smaller local operations outside of those areas or 2) the economics of transport raise the cost of sale significantly in those areas.

(or most likely, some combination of 1 & 2)

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