I read in the paper that our Congressman, Rep. Luis Gutierrez just presided over a hearing about changing the makeup of the penny (only 2.4% copper) since it costs something like 1.7 cents to make. And in a meeting with a plumber today complaining about the constant increase in the cost of copper (it pretty much quadrupled in the last 5 years), I was reminded again of this fact.
All that makes our recent purchase seem like a nice investment at the very least for the scrap value alone. No, we don't yet own the building to put in, but we've got ourselves a brewery located a few states away. Soon it will sit quietly in a corner in Chicago for a good many months, but what pretty corner she will be.
Now I'm getting teary thinking about the recent family trips up to the Copper Country, the Italian Hall Massacre, and of course Shute's Saloon.
