Mohawk council works to create tobacco regulations
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Back 30 years ago, Saskatchewan roads where not too bad. Just the usual complaints,
but every little town had a Grain Elevator or three. The last couple of decades changed
that, and now Grain Elevators are the monster Super-Elevators that're few & far between.
A Farmer in days gone by could haul his grain a short ways on gravel most of the way to
the local elevator in smaller grain trucks, but now with the Super-Elevators, it's not cost
efficient any longer, and a Farmer needs a tractor-trailer to haul his grain further in larger
loads.....and it's beaten the hell out'a the highways. It's a whole lot of heavy loads that use
to go to the local elevators and then move via railcars instead of by semi's on the pavement.
It just another way that government (through a road system) has subsidized corporations....though it isn't considered a subsidy as it isn't direct. One has to wonder, if the government tightened the regulations governing heavy truck use on highways, what the end result would have been. I doubt that more elevators would have destroyed the farming industry.
