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So we complain about gas, but pay more for water?

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Someone pointed out to me that bottled water costs more than gasoline for our cars, yet we complain about gas prices even though we pay $1 for a bottle for water

:shocked:
 
Originally posted by: FleshLight
Apples and oranges here..
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Not really. Any moron that pays a dollar for bottled water shouldn't be allowed to complain about the prices of anything.
 
No, STUPID PEOPLE pay $1/bottle of water

I get a bottle (that I had PREVIOUSLY gotten for free), fill it up from the refrigerator, and drink it
 
This is always one of the common arguments made. Quite honestly, it doesn't hold up. You can pay 25 cents for a gallon of water at the local grocery store. That's 4 gallons for $1. For the price of 1 gallon of cheap gasoline, you could get about 8.25 gallons of water.
 
Originally posted by: aplefka
This is always one of the common arguments made. Quite honestly, it doesn't hold up. You can pay 25 cents for a gallon of water at the local grocery store. That's 4 gallons for $1. For the price of 1 gallon of cheap gasoline, you could get about 8.25 gallons of water.
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Or you can pay $.005 for a gallon of water through your municipal water supplier.
 
I buy bottled water, and use a Pur water filter for cooking. I don't like the taste of tap water. When you buy Aquafina by the case closer to $.25 a bottle. When I lived in Tahoe I didn't need to buy water, but every place I've lived since then has had piss for water.
 
I drink tap water. Taste like water to me.

The shareholders of FoMoCo pay for my 2000 gallons of gasoline a year.
 
Originally posted by: FleshLight
Originally posted by: aplefka
This is always one of the common arguments made. Quite honestly, it doesn't hold up. You can pay 25 cents for a gallon of water at the local grocery store. That's 4 gallons for $1. For the price of 1 gallon of cheap gasoline, you could get about 8.25 gallons of water.
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Or you can pay $.005 for a gallon of water through your municipal water supplier.
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Yeah, but I think people are referring to the whole "processed" water. That's why I didn't even bother bringing that up. At least they can't say that the water from the store is dirty, because paying more for something automatically seems to make it a better product to most of the people in this forum.

Well, except RossMAN :laugh:
 
Originally posted by: aplefka
This is always one of the common arguments made. Quite honestly, it doesn't hold up. You can pay 25 cents for a gallon of water at the local grocery store. That's 4 gallons for $1. For the price of 1 gallon of cheap gasoline, you could get about 8.25 gallons of water.
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It holds up when you realize the vast majority of bottled water sold is sold in single serving bottles.

The bottled water industry is a multi billion dollar a year business. And it's a scam.

In most areas tap water tastes fine. In all areas, tap water is safe. In fact, your tap water is more tightly regulated than bottled water.

Not only that, but the majority of bottled water brands are... get this... TAP WATER.

Penn and Teller did a hilarious blind taste test with L.A. tap water and expensive bottled waters. The tap water won by a wide margin.
 
Originally posted by: Amused
It holds up when you realize the vast majority of bottled water sold is sold in single serving bottles.
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Because the primary product sold is convenience, and not the water itself, then single-serving containers make the most sense.
Originally posted by: Amused
The bottled water industry is a multi billion dollar a year business. And it's a scam.
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Wow, knocking a profitable, legal, capitalistic enterprise? You? Say it isn't so. 😛
Originally posted by: Amused
In most areas tap water tastes fine. In all areas, tap water is safe. In fact, your tap water is more tightly regulated than bottled water.
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What about this person's water supply? There are a small minority who's tap water is not safe to drink; thus the availability of an alternative potable water-supply, such as bottled-water, is a useful and potentially life-saving thing. (But as a primary drinking-water supply for the majority of the population - bottled water is expensive overkill, I agree. It also seems somewhat inefficient and wasteful from a distribution perspective as well, but yet, consumers are willing to pay more for inefficiency. Further proof that capitalistic principles can easily be skewed, when the consumer side of the equation is uneducated and missing all the facts.)
Originally posted by: Amused
Not only that, but the majority of bottled water brands are... get this... TAP WATER.
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That is definately true. What I really don't like about 99% of the cheaper bottled-water products on the market, is that they use cheap, freshly-made plastic containers, and you can clearly taste the plastic resins and whatnot that have leeched into the water and contaminated the taste. That's the same reason that I much prefer to consume carbonated beverages stored in glass bottles than in plastic or aluminum cans. (Each one has their characteristic "taste" that they add to the contents.)
Originally posted by: Amused
Penn and Teller did a hilarious blind taste test with L.A. tap water and expensive bottled waters. The tap water won by a wide margin.
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Well, the tap water likely had more mineral and other content, and that's what actually gives water it's "taste" (besides the chlorine added to most public water-supplies to kill small microbial contaminants). So "more pure" water would be in fact closer to tasteless. I can easily believe their results.
 
Because you're from america where the politians are too scared to tax petrol or join the kyoto agreement as it'd be political suicide.

 
I'd like to think my tap water is safe, but we boil a pitcher's worth each time. Don't know what it is about breast cancer on LI, but we take every possible precaution.

Anyway, as stated, bottled water is for convenience. If you buy the gallons of bottled water, it's not more than gas.
 
i agree on the apples and oranges thing......

i dont use a car so gas (or petrol/diesel as we say in the UK) is irrevelant...lol

i buy Evian mineral water, for 2 reasons, firstly, i like the taste, water does taste different depending on what it is, soft, hard etc......I used to drink volvic but felt it a little too acidic for my liking......i guess i have sensitive tastebuds...lol

i dont drink my local tap water because i live in Greater North West London, the water is just too hard to drink and enjoy, massive limescale, yuck...even filters dont make it much better......filtered twice even makes not enough improvement.

however when i go up to the North of England, some areas the tap water is lovely, really lovely.....

i dont actually drink anything else other than water or alcoholic drinks, no tea, coffee, coke, tango, 7-up, milk, etc, so i am fussy about what water i drink because i drink both to rehydrate and to enjoy it.
i do shop around though to find the Evian at the cheapest price possible...lol...atm i can get 6 x 2ltr bottles for around £3 (US$5 approx)
 
Originally posted by: knyghtbyte
i agree on the apples and oranges thing......

i dont use a car so gas (or petrol/diesel as we say in the UK) is irrevelant...lol

i buy Evian mineral water, for 2 reasons, firstly, i like the taste, water does taste different depending on what it is, soft, hard etc......I used to drink volvic but felt it a little too acidic for my liking......i guess i have sensitive tastebuds...lol

i dont drink my local tap water because i live in Greater North West London, the water is just too hard to drink and enjoy, massive limescale, yuck...even filters dont make it much better......filtered twice even makes not enough improvement.

however when i go up to the North of England, some areas the tap water is lovely, really lovely.....

i dont actually drink anything else other than water or alcoholic drinks, no tea, coffee, coke, tango, 7-up, milk, etc, so i am fussy about what water i drink because i drink both to rehydrate and to enjoy it.
i do shop around though to find the Evian at the cheapest price possible...lol...atm i can get 6 x 2ltr bottles for around £3 (US$5 approx)
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Best water I've ever tasted is at our house in the alps of Italy. The house is in a village about a third of the way up a mountain. The water comes directly from the mountain, ie it rains at the top and it filters down to a source in the village. Ice cold and so good.
Don't go there often though...
 
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