I just looked in a vending machine, a bottle of water is $1.20 for a 20 ounce bottle. One gallon is 128 ounces, so a gallon of bottled water costs $7.68.
I feel like high prices are giving it to me in the rear, and making me bring my own vaseline.
2007-06-07 04:49:58 · 19 answers · asked by Darth Vader 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
At least petroleum jelly is still cheap.
2007-06-07 04:57:14 · update #1
I understand that there is now a handy belt carrier for youur vaseline so it is always at the ready. So "BOHICA" that is bend over, here it comes again!
2007-06-07 05:16:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bottled water has hidden costs that make it so much more expensive then gas .
How do you create a demand for a product that you use to flush your toilets with .
Tell people that that same water is seeping into the water you drink .
Now tell them you have pure water that has not been flushed down a toilet to drink and you have $1.20 bottled water .
2007-06-07 04:54:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Last time I checked a gallon of spring water in the grocery store was about $4.
I get it cheaper: I buy a filter for my tap water once a month!
Sorry, petroleum products are on the up & up too.
My aunt works in the cosmetics and fragrance industry.... and their major accounts are starting to look elsewhere, namely in China, because they have to pay more in the U.S. for petroleum, mineral oil, etc.
2007-06-07 05:13:19 · answer #3 · answered by tiny Valkyrie 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you went to the store and bought a gallon of water it would cost a $1 or less
2007-06-07 05:10:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wrong!
You can buy a gallon of distilled water at Walmart for $.039/gallon. When purchased in bulk, you are experiencing the Laws of Diminishing Returns first hand :)
Alternately, you can also buy VOX water (from the Netherlands) from over $8.50 for a bottle. (But it comes in a really cool funked out containter).
You cannot make an accurate comparative analysis of water and gas because they are not truely substitutive goods.
But yeah, I hear ya - all this capitalistic greed is getting out of hand!
2007-06-07 04:57:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
If you choose to purchase supposed premium water when you have perfectly fine water out of the tap in 90% of the country, then the ripoff is your own fault. I have no sympathy for you. Don't buy it and then complain about it.
BTW, the grocery store sells water for about .90 a gallon. It's perfectly fine for all drinking and cooking. Had to buy it when I had truly deplorable water (yellow and sulpher smelling) at one place I lived.
2007-06-07 04:56:07 · answer #6 · answered by TotalRecipeHound 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yeah, but you can buy a gallon of bottled water at a grocery store for $0.69,
Its all in how you look at it, like the person who owns the vending machine probably enjoys the idea of seeing you take it in the rear, because he the one giving it to you,
Its all about perspective.
2007-06-07 04:53:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't know of many stores that don't sell Lemonade in some form like powdered, fresh, or frozen. I like Minute Maid myself or they do have Snapple lemonade that is pretty good. Keep looking around. Most gas station has lemonade in the bottle too.
2016-05-19 00:18:28 · answer #8 · answered by kimberley 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can get a gallon of bottled water at the grocery store for 1.00....just a suggestion.
2007-06-07 04:53:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
"People these days use more gasoline than water."?!?!?
Geez, with "answers" like the one Frank M gave you it must make you wonder why you even bother in the first place.
You did get some interesting answers - though most folks, as usual, just answer as a means to vent their biases and FEELINGS without ever addressing your point. Oh, well, that's YA for you, isn't it?
2007-06-07 04:58:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋