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Short on Salt, Towns Turn to Molasses

As salt costs double, alternative deicers hit the pavement

By Clay Dillow,  Newser Staff

Posted Jan 2, 2009 8:45 AM CST

(Newser) – With the weather outside frightful and rock-salt prices spiking, communities across the country are experimenting with new concoctions for melting snow and ice on roadways, the Wall Street Journal reports, adding molasses, ash, and garlic salt to deicers. The price of salt generally surges after...   Read full story »

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