Motorists complain about the high price of gasoline. But 74 percent of Americans drink bottled water, which is more?

Motorists complain about the high price of gasoline. But 74 percent of Americans drink bottled water, which is more expensive than gasoline. Does toting bottled water give you a sense of sophistication?

Making bottles to meet our demand for bottled water, required the equivalent of more than 17 Million barrels of oil last year. In blind tastes, most consumers couldn't tell the difference between tap and bottled water. Is it really more safe?

Why are we spending so much for it? And yet we complain about gasoline, unlike gasoline we have a choice to drink water for free, TAP! Asked by ~*casron*~ 47 months ago Similar questions: Motorists complain high price gasoline 74 percent Americans drink bottled water Business.

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Water Interesting my son and I were discussing this yesterday. He pointed out to me that we spend more on water than gas. I had made the statement that people will always want to go and so they will therefore buy gas at any price.

I also pointed out to him that milk would always cost about the same as gas, this I have no explanation for. As far as water being free, I don't think so, tap water is a convience, but having a well as I do it takes the almighty electricity to pump it and for those who live in the city they also pay for water through their tap. They recieve a water bill each month to prove it.

But tap water is a convience, I only drink bottled water, regardless if I fill the bottle up myself or if I buy it at the store. Refilling my own bottles only after they are washed with soap and water, It's just like a glass but you can carry it around with you. Grandmamu4all's Recommendations Thirst: Fighting the Corporate Theft of Our Water Amazon List Price: $27.95 Used from: $13.49 Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 1 reviews) Fine Waters: A Connoisseur's Guide to the World's Most Distinctive Bottled Waters Amazon List Price: $24.95 Used from: $9.45 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 2 reviews) Wellsprings: A Natural story Of Bottled Spring Waters Amazon List Price: $25.95 Used from: $17.08 A Tap Water Girl in a Bottled Water World Amazon List Price: $12.95 Used from: $0.02 Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 2 reviews) .

I bet a lot of them can't even do the math. They buy a bottle of water for a dollar and think nothing of it but complain at the gas pump. If they bought a tank's worth of the water though (say 10 gallons), maybe then they'd start to see the light.

Of course, there's a pretty good chance that most of them don't know that plastic comes from oil either. People actually yell at me when I drink from a public water fountain, like it's tainted or something! I'd take most tap water over bottled water though.

The tap water tastes fine to me, and I've actually had more than one funky-tasting bottle of water. Bottled water is no safer than tap either. Each can succumb to different kinds of contamination, but where tap water comes from a huge source where contaminants can be diluted to almost nothing, bottled water is a self-contained mess.

If you ever see me pay for a bottle of water, feel free to smack me around a little.

Luxuries and necessities People complain about gas precisely because they have no alternative. People don't complain about the water because they know that they could have it from the tap if they wanted. They might perceive it as less good, but they know that a cheaper option exists, and the bottled water is a luxury that they're willing to splurge on.

They may be telling themselves stories about how it's better water, but they know it's not a necessity, and they're willing to let capitalism set the price. But they hate being taken advantage of on things that they need, and they perceive that the only alternatives to gasoline are getting rid of your car entirely, which is so inconvenient as to be practically impossible in many places. (The last train runs at 8 PM, and if you work late, tough luck.) Even if they did, many jurisdictions are raising the prices of public transportation to cope with higher fuel prices.

In the US, most bottled water is expected to be plain, flavorless, non-mineral water. It's a matter of convenience, not taste.In essence, it's not the water you're buying, it's the bottle, and more to the point the convenience of having that bottle right where you happen to be (in a fast-food restaurant or convenience store). It is surprising that more people don't re-fill their bottles for free.

There are various scare stories going about how that's dangerous, though they've been pretty thoroughly refuted. You could re-fill your water bottle at the soda machine in many fast-food restaurants, and I've done it, though I feel a little silly doing it. They don't make it easy or obvious, because they really want to sell you bottled water or soda.

(The soda is probably cheaper to them, since they get the soda in concentrated form but bottled water requires shipping water, which is heavy and bulky.) Bottled waters are becoming increasingly like soda. The companies add flavorings, vitamins, or other stuff to try to distinguish it from just-plain-water that you CAN get from your tap. I do want to point out, though, that the Dasani brand of bottled water is a bit different from the others.

They add some salts to it to give it a particular flavor profile that's sweeter than other waters, and I actually do like the taste of it better and can pick it out of a blind taste test. The other bottled waters really are just plain filtered tap water just like I get at home, and I've got a big glass of that right now.

Really, REALLY good point! I'm not sure what else to say! I do know, however, that many feel the chemicalized water from the municipal tap is not healthy, so they prefer other.

But a simple filter should do the work there.... What is interesting is that I have also read about the garbage found in some of the bottled waters. We drink well water here. I'm sure there is garbage in that of one kind or another, too, but we are drawing from pretty deep and we have not died yet!

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Personally I rarely buy bottled water. I 100% agree with you that bottled water is one of the biggest ripoffs in the history of ripoffs. I do buy it once in a great while for convenience.

Like if I am going camping or other situations where drinking water is not readily available. I like my tap water and I am pretty sure I could not tell the difference between tap and bottled water. Of course I get very good tap water living by one of the largest bodies of fresh water in the world...the great lakes...lake michigan.

I remember years back when bottled water first started becoming popular and I was like...this will never last...how crazy would you have to be to buy water? When it is nearly free out of the tap... Well I was wrong...it is huge business. Penn & Teller did a pretty funny bit on bottled water on their show on showtime...show called BS!...they basically filled expensive looking bottles with tap water and passed it off as special water...all of the people gave reviews on how great the water was.

Just funny to see how a package can trick people. In most cases bottled water is simply bottled tap water with maybe a small amount of mineral additives or some filtering. In some cases the bottles are filled directly from tap sources with absolutely no URL1 many cases you have much greater chance of getting worse water from bottled water.

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