Americans buy 50 Billion plastic bottles of water/year. A federal tax of $0.25 per bottle will produce $12.5 Billion in revenue, reduce CO2 emissions and oil consumption.
Why is this important?
Facts: Bottled water costs 300 to 2,400 times as much as tap water; 1 bottle costs as much as a year of tap drinking water; bottles are petroleum products; producing bottled water consumes up to 2000 times more energy than tap water and produces annually as much CO2 as 475,000 cars; 80% of the bottles go to landfills. We should discourage the purchase of bottled water.
