Notes From All Over -- Part 1 -- June 23, 2019

Bureaucracy run amok: LaCroix is technically illegal in Massachusetts. To sell canned water in the commonwealth one needs a permit. LaCroix does not have a permit. Minor detail. Link here.

If LaCroix makes it official with The Bay State, it's not clear if the water's mysterious all-natural essences will finally be revealed. But at least the public can be fully reassured that their beloved pamplemousse is free of any radioactive materials.

So, now we have:

• pamplemousse
• penultimate
• picayune
• puisne

Some in France might refer to President Trump as a pamplemousse. LOL.

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Upfront Costs

Connecticut is considering highway tolls to pay for highway maintenance.

Connecticut is the only state along the East Coast that doesn’t collect tolls on highways. The majority of states have some form of tolling.

There are at least two issues here:

• the political issue -- whether to reinstate tolls; and,
• building the system

Here in Texas no manned tollbooths. No slowing, stopping, paying, accelerating. It's all done with RFID and cameras, which has become the norm across the US.

That is how Connecticut will do it -- electronically. Even Massachusetts finally switched over in late 2016.

And that's the rub: it won't be cheap. There will be substantial upfront costs.