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Thanks internets - books cheaper than coal

Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 11:23 am
by DerGolgo
Books are now not worth the wood that the paper they are made from is made from, let alone their weight in coal.
Wow. Wikipedia, I blame ye!
Also, this is rather horrible in a way.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/34703166

Some cash-strapped British pensioners a ... e to coal.

Hard to imagine that Britain used to be swollen with gas and oil, not to mention coal-mines wherever they eye could see.