By the gallon...
Jun. 24th, 2007 10:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bladesparkDo you drink bottled water? Happily I don't, so I don't have to feel really stupid after reading this. I've bought a few bottles of the stuff, which funnily enough I buy for the bottle, one of them's being used as a cheap substitute for the Nalgene that I can't bring myself to spend that much on this very moment. But I fill them up once they're empty with tap water, which I find perfectly palatable in most places. (Although one of my apartments in Ireland about drove me to get bottles. Ugh.)
Anyhow, I just discovered two things, one of which is that the two major bottled water brands, Daisani and Aquafina are filtered tap water. That's it. Nothing special, no mountain springs or exotic minteral content, just the local water run through a filter no better than you could buy yourself.
The other thing is that bottled water costs more than gasoline here in the USA. That $1, 20 oz. size breaks down to 5 cents an ounce. The $3 gallon of gas everybody's screaming about is only 2 cents an ounce. And while gasoline is pumped up, shipped, refined, shipped again, and then sold, the bottled stuff is just run off the plant's local tap water, filtered once, shipped once, and sold. They're making a killing on that stuff!
Edited - here's a few other things priced by the gallon! http://www.cockeyed.com/science/gallon/liquid.html
Anyhow, I just discovered two things, one of which is that the two major bottled water brands, Daisani and Aquafina are filtered tap water. That's it. Nothing special, no mountain springs or exotic minteral content, just the local water run through a filter no better than you could buy yourself.
The other thing is that bottled water costs more than gasoline here in the USA. That $1, 20 oz. size breaks down to 5 cents an ounce. The $3 gallon of gas everybody's screaming about is only 2 cents an ounce. And while gasoline is pumped up, shipped, refined, shipped again, and then sold, the bottled stuff is just run off the plant's local tap water, filtered once, shipped once, and sold. They're making a killing on that stuff!
Edited - here's a few other things priced by the gallon! http://www.cockeyed.com/science/gallon/liquid.html
