You think gasoline is expensive?
At $2.91 per gallon you may think gas prices are out of whack, but CNN did a great piece to add some perspective to the issue.
Bottled water: A 20 ounce bottle of Poland Spring costs $1.19 or $7.62 per gallon.
Pepto-Bismol: An 8 ounce bottle costs $4.49 or $71.81 per gallon.
Nail polish: A half-ounce bottle of Revlon nail polish (they used "strawberry electric") costs $4.59 or $1175.04 per gallon. A good thing cars don't run on nail polish.
But the coup de grace was clearly printer ink. A Lexmark printer cartridge costs $32 and contains only a few mililiters of ink. At those prices printer ink costs more than $6,000 a gallon.
Now obviously, we use a lot more gasoline than those products. But when you think about how difficult it is to get gas (you have to drill for oil, sometimes in dangerous places, then you have to refine, then send it to a service station and dispense it from the pump) shouldn't it cost a lot more than water or coffee?
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
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4 comments:
Anyone that uses 15 gallons of Pepto Bismol a week needs to stop eating tacos.
PP Derek hit on a great point. If something is too expensive for you to buy, you change your habits so that you use less of it. That includes not eating 12 tacos by yourself (share some with Josh) or it could mean walking your fatass to the store, or carpooling to work. Great point, Derek.
Not trying to be funny, but water is the most abundent natural resource on the plant and should no cost $1.29. It's completely stupid because no one was selling bottled water until the 90's. Anyone who disagrees with me can go to hell(straight to hell).
Setting Aside fancy waters from the Himlayas that bottle from filted Sherpa urine, I think the convention of bottled water is really the convenience of having it is a handy bottle with a cap. Thus, you are paying for the bottle, not the water. For example, it would be hard to run around the city with a cup of water in your hand without spilling it all over. If you tried to put a cup on water in your gymbag, you quickly realize the 1 dollar is worth it.
Having said that, I cannot answer anyones question regarding how Shea Stadium charges 4 bucks for a bottle of water but takes the cap off. As an experiment, I will buy one of these bottles of water, and demand my money back as soon as the vendor takes the cap back, stating that I bargained for a bottle water and this is worthless. When the vendor refuses, I will suit the stadium and expose Shea's "bottled" water scam.
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