I'm glad to hear some places are encouraging the consumption of soft drinks by either giving them free to designated drivers or pricing them low. Unfortunately this seems to be quite a rare thing at least in the uk. Where I went last night a pint of real ale was £1.80, I asked for a pint of cola for my friend who was driving - the reply, " we don't do cola in pints" , they charged me £1.60 for a hiball glass of cola. When it only costs the publican about 5 or 6 pence for a pint of a soft drink out of those soda gun things why do they charge such ott prices!