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A STARBUCKS PIPELINE.

May 12, 2016 at 10:01 PM · Economics

A STARBUCKS PIPELINE. The beer pipeline reminds me of the news report on NPR that I heard many years ago. Starbucks was constructing a coffee pipeline that would run from Seattle a point in the Midwest.

I realized almost immediately that it was April Fools Day, but the image of a river of coffee flowing to a place where it was needed has stayed with me.