No relationship whatsoever to the two items. The bottle water "analogy" has been beaten to death. And it is still worthless.
It falls in line with the liberal argument that because Japan pays twice as much for gasoline, we should be grateful we are only getting raped for $3 a gallon.
BTW, in WalMart you can by bottled water for 75¢ a gallon. So where's your outrage at the cost of gasoline?
Lets take the oil companies profit away. Instead of $3.10 a gallon for gas, it's now $2.99.
Now, how long will the oil companies survive while not making a profit? So they shut down operations in the USA, move the companies offices, refineries and employees to a more business friendly country.
We still need gas. So now we buy it from Exon Mexico. What did we lose here? All of the payroll and SS taxes paid by the oil companies employees AND the CEO, hundreds of thousands of good paying jobs and over two trillion dollars in corporate and other taxes that the oil companies have paid in the last 25 years.
Is the gas any cheaper? Nope, because your still dealing with worldwide demand for gasoline.
Typical leftist solution to a problem. Making everyone equally miserable.
I guess the point went over your head. At $3 a gallon for gas, About $.25 is profit, $.60 taxes, and the rest is for ALL that goes into procuring, refining, distributing, etc etc. If we had drilled in Anwar years ago, built Nuke Power Plants years ago, built refineries years ago, etc., we would not be having the problems now.
You can get water for .39 a gallon at the cheapie store, but that is not the point. The small convient 12 oz. bottles can generate up to $2.90 a bottle profit when sold at a theater or concert, or ballgame. That is about 3000% profit. If that margin is OK with you, why do you fuss at 8% by the oil companies. You argue with the same inane logic the MSM does. Say hello to Al.