Plastic container with container strut support columns

A plastic container comprising:

• a top container portion including a plurality of spaced apart top strut members;
• a bottom container portion including a plurality of spaced bottom strut members;
• and,
• a middle container portion located between the top and bottom container portions, the top, bottom and middle container portions oriented along a container axis;
• the middle container portion comprising:
• a plurality of annular rib members, wherein each rib member is separated from longitudinally adjacent rib members by an annular groove, each groove having a number of middle strut members disposed along a length of the groove, wherein the plurality of annular rib members have a diameter that is less than a diameter of the bottom container portion adjacent the middle container portion;
• and,
• adjacent middle strut members of adjacent grooves being longitudinally aligned;
• wherein the container comprises a plurality of first columns comprised collectively of a top strut member of the plurality of spaced top strut members, a first set of middle strut members of the number middle strut members and a bottom strut member of the plurality of spaced bottom strut members, the top strut member, first set of middle strut members and bottom strut member comprising each of the first columns are longitudinally aligned.