Six-Packs At Beer Distribs; Solar-Powered Flying Cars

Raise a toast, Pennsylvanians! Thanks to a benevolent state senate committee, we now might be able to purchase six-packs at beer distributors and get up to 18 beers take-out at bars. This is a development worth pounding a few cans of Sly Fox over.

The move comes from the Pennsylvania Senate’s Senate Law and Justice Committee, and it would allow beer distributors to sell six-packs until September, and then sell in any configuration they want! Imagine: 7-packs. 11-packs. 31-packs. What a world we will soon live in.

And some state senator was really honest:

State senator John Rafferty (R-Chester and Montgomery counties), who chairs the Senate committee, says the bill is the product of months of negotiation: “There are a lot of special interests involved in this bill. There are a lot of people that wanted strictly their own fiefdoms preserved, and could care less about somebody else. We tried to look at number one, the bottom line, the consumer.”

Ha ha. It’s good to know it’s 2007 and we still have fiefdoms.

Meanwhile, New Jersey towns aren’t allowed to make people register their kegs so if they’re used for underage drinking they could get in trouble. Uhh… a victory for freedom? The proletariat will rise again?

Beer Sales in Pennsylvania Move Closer to a Makeover [KYW 1060]
Official: Towns can’t do keg registration [AP/Camden Courier-Post]