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Beet Juice is the best de-icer. Its just expensive.

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Beet juice is better because it doesnt kill the FN trees + flora...

Source, grew up in Lake Tahoe - Salting the roads killed the ice AND the trees on the side of the road.

Also, my grandfather and great grandfather on my stepdads side were beet farmers in Idaho.... and yes - beet juice is WAY better for the environment, but you have to do all that farming first. Then Juicing, then trucking then....



That’s the first time I’ve ever heard anybody say that. Places use beet juice because it’s cheaper than calcium chloride and it works terribly.


You should see this, this is a really fn experience with AI on topic with our thread:

https://g.co/gemini/share/15dbc36c434a





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