Posted on 02/19/2020 3:09:31 AM PST by sodpoodle
“I could never understand why people would purchase water in plastic bottles when they have fresh water running from their faucets at home.......”
Because, with every bill we get from our water company, an insert is enclosed warning that drinking the water may cause cancer.
years ago a lib in the office was ranting and raving about evil ‘big-oil’.....all the usual talking points...blah, blah, blah. She had a cup of starbux in her hand. when I pointed out she happily paid $12 per gallon (at that time) every morning for coffee and asked why $3 (or whatever at the time) for a gallon of gas was a problem and what she thought of ‘big-coffee’, all she could do was stutter
Well that certainly isn't the case here in Michigan.....
“Well that certainly isn’t the case here in Michigan....”
They say it is due to the added disinfectants, required by law, that form harmful compounds.
Thank Heaven that it’s so expensive!
No, we get lead instead.
My Lansing Board of Water and Light water rate is $3.16 per ccf. (A ccf is 100 cubic feet.)
That's $3.16 for 748 gallons of water. Methinks most of the pricing in this article isn't for the actual product, but for the packaging and transport of those packages.
Right now gas is $1.99 gallon on Baton
Rouge LA area.
Course it helps that we produce/refine
so much oil/gas.
Then again, the price of oil can
be precarious.
At around $9/gallon, beer is a good deal.
Sure... but gas would be a lot more money if it wasn’t for the fact that Alberta is landlocked and forced to sell oil at way less than world market prices. Talk about being over a barrel.... https://business.financialpost.com/opinion/vivian-krause-rachel-notley-the-rockefellers-and-albertas-landlocked-oil
:: Well that certainly isn’t the case here in Michigan. ::
Well, true there is no warning but, the Marshall Sandstone aquifer that provides drinking water to the (almost entire) Southern half of the mitten is above EPA recommendations for Arsenic, Nitrates and Sulfates in drinking water. Municipal use is grandfathered for most communities.
Tap water routinely has “floaters” (TSS) and as a result of local treatment (pH adjust, chlorine, fluorine), the water has a slightly “eggy” smell to it (chem-rxn of Fe and SO4).
I drank that tap water from 1958 through 1981. I’m in fine health. ;-)
I do not buy 20 gallons of Diet Snapple.
Gas prices are too high in California. I still drive on the same broken roads year after year while reading about the fat pensions the gov’t workers get.
https://www.gasbuddy.com
Purchase a water filter.
“I could never understand why people would purchase water in plastic bottles when they have fresh water running from their faucets at home.......”
I have a sister-in-law...democrat, vegan, abortioner...that always fills her water glass from our fridge dispenser because there’s an inline filter. Or, at least she thinks there is. The fridge previously alerted us that the filter needed changing. I pulled the old filter out, capped off the opening...never replaced it. Forget to tell the SIL...
The average gas price in 1968 was before the OPEC price hike, but even then it is the same as now in adjusted dollars. Also people forget the retail price includes federal and state taxes that are close to or above 50 cents.
If you paid a typical sales tax on gasoline the price would be even lower.
As for the price of bottled water, just buy it at Costco. It’s 25 cents a bottle.
“Then again, the price of oil can be precarious.”
Yes and no. Now that we’re producing big-time, we have the option of price controls for the American market, if it came to that. But even that is unlikely to be needed, short of a big-time bad event happening (like the Saudis being taken out).
Being in Texas myself, I’m much more worried about the price of crude dropping too much, especially with Coronavirus possibly causing a deep recession everywhere.
Many states do have mandatory deposits on drink bottles and cans.........................
Iron, ie, rust, stains............your body needs iron................
Comparing gasoline to beverage pricing is not realistic. A good portion of the cost in beverages is the packaging. Imagine if every gallon of gasoline was sold in a plastic 2-1/2 gallon container like you use for your lawnmower? Then what would gasoline cost to sell & distribute (no more moving it in tanker trucks).
But a gallon could last you all week....
Cow deer ewe!
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