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  • springo, on 01/16/2008, -9/+675And the gas price is from August 2005...
    • iPissExcellence, on 01/16/2008, -23/+4*
      • jamminman, on 01/16/2008, -2/+38I notice that you supposedly piss excellence, but I do not understand how your comment is supportive of this notion.
        • EditorResponse, on 01/16/2008, -17/+5Read up on regular expressions then
          • mem2, on 01/16/2008, -4/+2.*
          • moofer, on 01/16/2008, -6/+5%s/\*/iPissExcellenceSucksDonkey/g
          • jtbandes, on 01/16/2008, -3/+14An asterisk is not a metacharacter in regular expressions.

            Epic fail.
          • ayeroxor, on 01/16/2008, -7/+5"epic" might be pushing it.
          • Stupidumb, on 01/16/2008, -1/+3It's not a metacharacter? And even if it wasn't, he never made that claim.

            Extravagant Fail.
        • GliTCH82, on 01/17/2008, -1/+1Perhaps he was going for the wildcard approach. Presumably, there could be some hilarious and/or insightful comment within the scope of his comment. Oh wait, I'm getting some results back....

          That's a negative, he's just a dumbass.
      • MacGyver2210, on 01/16/2008, -0/+26*Ingestion of Gasoline is not recommended. Side effects include cancer, flaming burps, gastrointestinal decomposition, spontaneous combustion, and possibly death.
    • chrisdelta, on 01/16/2008, -1/+731.25 Liters is .33 gallons, which would put the cost per gallon at $4.65
      • Whaines, on 01/16/2008, -0/+56America has some of the cheapest gasoline in the world. Here's a chart showing global gas prices. The amounts may not be accurate now but the ratios should still hold up.
        http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.gadling.com/medi ...
        • Aharoni, on 01/16/2008, -2/+7Yeah, this really isn't news. I pay $160 per month for gas (and I have an Skoda Fabia, which is a relatively small and economic car) - and I don't make my salary in dollars... here in Israel prices were always insanely high and I was really shocked when I found out that in Europe its just as bad...
        • Scynet, on 01/16/2008, -1/+9Yeah but taxes effect the prices too, so it's not that simple.
        • Cyrus042, on 01/16/2008, -1/+6Keep in mind that Americans pay a lot of taxes in the form of City / State / Federal taxes for transportation budgets. The amount of infrastructure cost for the many miles of sprawl we have doesn't escape our pocketbooks.
          • CiXeL, on 01/16/2008, -0/+7also typically the only affordable places to live these days are at least a 1 hour commute away. when i worked in california my boss was doing a 3 hour commute each way between work and home. lake castaic to gardena
        • Xchus, on 01/17/2008, -4/+1I'm sorry to say but in Venezuela a litter of gas (95 octane) is 0.05 USD and a litter of mineral water is 0.5 USD...
      • MacGyver2210, on 01/16/2008, -0/+20Also, the price is in Australian Dollar$
        • Nitesmoke, on 01/16/2008, -8/+2I was wondering why they paid $1.52 for a 20 oz coke in 2005, when I just bout one for $1.19. Also, the 2 liter is 99 cents, so If you buy in bulk you get more, i.e. the concentrated boxes that fast food joints use cost about $5 and equal about 20 gallons of soda. Who buys gasoline 1 liter a time? At the scale coke uses for bulk, 10 gallons costs about $3 if you buy it concentrated, while 1 gallon of gas is currently around $3. A better point could be made about milk, it goes for around $5 per gallon now.
    • BodomX, on 01/16/2008, -13/+2Isn't Gasoline clear?
      • aussieNickuss, on 01/16/2008, -1/+10It's pinkish.
        • davidjunit, on 01/16/2008, -1/+11wth, do you run Citgo 110 leaded?
      • ecurse, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2It depends, colors are added to petrol to differentiate the different types. Here 91 octane is red and 95 octane is green.
        • IChazI, on 01/17/2008, -0/+395 octane? Where do they sell that stuff at? The highest they sell around my area is like 93
          • KaneElson, on 01/17/2008, -0/+1Generaly 91 is standard, 95 is premium, and 98 is ultra premium.

            I run 95 in my bike. I don't think I have seen a servo without 95 for ages.
    • aussieNickuss, on 01/16/2008, -0/+18That same bottle would cost $1.81 now. I bought petrol yesterday, and the price was $1.45 a litre.
      • jimbohawkins, on 01/16/2008, -1/+6I paid $3.439 a gallon the other day. Works out to $1.13 per 1.25L. At least our gas taxes are low in the US...
        • WayOfTheIronPaw, on 01/16/2008, -3/+22If you don't count a certain trillion dollar war.
          • superal1394, on 01/16/2008, -0/+4We are actually paying for it? I thought we were going trillions into debt.
      • Light11, on 01/16/2008, -0/+1i only pay 1.09 in winnipeg
      • Zaneris, on 01/17/2008, -0/+1$1.05/L here in Toronto
      • Scaryclouds, on 01/17/2008, -1/+1It's "gasoline" or "gas" not petrol, you aussie bastard!

        /sarcasm
        • KaneElson, on 01/17/2008, -0/+1Gas here generally refers to LPG. Gas is such a silly term as for any educated person it automatically brings images of the state.
    • FadieZ, on 01/16/2008, -9/+138"When the best rapper is white, the best golfer is black, the tallest basketball player is chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named 'Bush', 'Dick', and 'Colon.' "
      • jimbohawkins, on 01/16/2008, -16/+4What does this have to do with anything? Although it is as out of date as the article...
      • Glansbourg, on 01/16/2008, -27/+5Your retarded.
        • TheCasablancan, on 01/16/2008, -2/+22Is there something in our brains that causes us to make this mistake? In roughly 3/4 of the times I've read the statement "You're retarded." It's been spelled incorrectly. Why is this? Is it our god smack for attempting to show up someone else? I don't understand it.
          • Sibre, on 01/16/2008, -14/+3Before you post your comment criticizing someone's incorrect use of a word, be sure your own post is at least grammatically correct. " In roughly 3/4 of the times I've read the statement 'You're retarded.' " is not a complete sentence.
          • xerigen, on 01/16/2008, -1/+4Right back at you, Sibre. You used a space that shouldn't be there when quoting TheCasablancan between the first quote and the word "In."
          • Zebceponaf, on 01/16/2008, -0/+6Please get a life, all of you, even me I guess for writing this.
          • GunDownCCL, on 01/16/2008, -2/+3Anyone who uses digg does not know, understand, or care about grammar. Those who do quickly learn otherwise, or leave digg. All of the you, please, stop caring so I can read more good comments. (and yes, i'm a hypocrite for wasting time typing this, but it needs to be said).
          • elnerdo, on 01/16/2008, -0/+4Just to be a total dick: I'm fairly certain that when people say 'Your retarded' they're trying to be ironic.
            Or rather, their trying to be ironic.
          • withincontext, on 01/17/2008, -0/+1elnerdo: You mean "fecicious"? It's ironic that you got that wrong.
        • FadieZ, on 01/16/2008, -1/+8It's just proof nature has a sense of humor. Always gives me a chuckle.
      • lisalisa46410, on 01/16/2008, -8/+3Who is this powerful 'Colon' that you reference?
        • timusca, on 01/16/2008, -1/+9Powell
        • MarkOfTheDead, on 01/16/2008, -0/+18Goatse
        • lisalisa46410, on 01/17/2008, -0/+3My point was his name is Colin Powell, not 'Colon' so I'm going to agree with MarkOfTheDead and assume FadieZ was referencing Goatse....good call!
          • UNL1M1T3D, on 01/17/2008, -1/+1Well I don't know about Merrillville, but in Marine City we spell it Colon (assuming 46410 is your zip code).
          • lisalisa46410, on 01/17/2008, -0/+1I now live in Indy, but used to live in Merrillville. I know that it is pronounced as 'Colon' so maybe spelling it that way is a regional thing. Kind of like pop v/s soda. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Powell
      • GunDownCCL, on 01/16/2008, -4/+2I'd nominate this for comment of the week. You should have posted this as a comment, and not a comment response.
      • maerc, on 01/17/2008, -0/+1Best rapper is white?

        Who'sdat?
    • ophello, on 01/16/2008, -26/+14l e t t e r s p a c i n g l o w e r c a s e l o o k s h o r r i b l e a n d a n y o n e w h o d o e s i t s h o u l d b e s h o t
    • BassJunkie, on 01/16/2008, -1/+34But's is still a bargin compare to printer ink :-)
      http://decinabre.blogspot.com/2005/12/some-of-most ...
      "Inkjet ink is priced at $3,000 to $8,000 per gallon"
    • sollycardy, on 01/16/2008, -6/+1its not expensive because it's rare, its expensive because they want to make bigger profits. it's not that hard to conceive, and if you look at the facts objectively you'll see theres places in Alaska and Russia among others with huge amounts of oil they wont even drill. Peak oil is a conspiracy.
      • ricree, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2Peak oil is a fact that emerges from the difference in the rate of production and the rate of consumption. We are clearly using oil at a faster rate than it can be replaced, and it is a question of when, not if, we will hit "peak oil".
        • RyanBlueThunder, on 01/16/2008, -1/+2Peak oil assumes that our petroleum geologists wont keep making discoveries, our reservoir engineers wont keep creating new technology for enhanced oil recovery, and our chemical engineers wont keep creating ways of processing fuel from unconventional resources.
          Peak oil is faulty in that it assumes a constant, known, worldwide cumulative oil reserve maximum. Qp is and will always be changing (upwards).
          • superal1394, on 01/16/2008, -0/+1But we will eventaully reach a point where it will become nearly impossible to find enough Oil to support our energy demands.

            Nuclear/Solar/Hydrogen pleaseee!!!
          • glmory, on 01/17/2008, -0/+1Go ahead and make a graph of the ratio of world population to world oil production. You will find that on a per capita basis peak oil was in 1980. Since then the average person has had to do on less oil. That is the peak that matters and it is quite clearly decades behind us.
          • betterth, on 01/17/2008, -0/+1"p is and will always be changing (upwards)."

            Riiight, the number of vehicles being made and sold is astronomical, and countries much larger than the US (China, India) are rapidly buying more cars.

            The amount of oil will run out sooner or later, and at the current rate, it'll happen within our lifetimes. (Well I suppose it depends on how old you are).

            This isn't a conspiracy.

            PowerPoint WARNING www.cge.uevora.pt/aspo2005/abscom/ASPO2005_Bentley.ppt

            Seems to be a well made powerpoint. Shows several sources of information and provides insight into the shortcomings of several sources. Shows what areas we need more research in and how human ingenuity can help us.

            But says that basically world peak oil production can/will occur 2010-2015 without alternative sources being introduced like deepwater, Russia, Caspian, Iraq, tar sands )
    • Rukaribe, on 01/16/2008, -2/+7I don't see why this is shocking. I am amazed at how cheap gasoline really is. Think about it, they build huge drills to get it from deep under ground, ship it halfway around the world, refine it many times, ship it more, store it in complex facilities. And it's still around the price of water. Which I can just go to the brook next door and drink. Economies of scale sure is great. People should really cheer up and look on the bright side, it could be much worse.
      • StemsNSeeds, on 01/16/2008, -0/+0do you work for amoco?
      • buymeachicken, on 01/17/2008, -1/+2Where do you live? Utopia? There is no way I'd drink water from any of the brooks around here.
    • ecurse, on 01/16/2008, -5/+0I drive a LR discovery that does less than 4 miles to the gallon in the city but I don't mind at all because I pay only $.65 cents for a gallon. :P
      I love my life.
  • midoritsuru, on 01/16/2008, -5/+348Bottled water costs more per liter than gasoline, at least in the US...and that's with today's oil prices.
    • swordedge, on 01/16/2008, -9/+145Bottled water is a travesty. Filter it instead since tap water is better for you than bottled.
      • FadieZ, on 01/16/2008, -7/+12And tastes way better imo.
        • sovereign3, on 01/16/2008, -13/+1Give me a break. Like you can taste the difference...
          • CiXeL, on 01/16/2008, -0/+3get an RO unit and save yourself some money.
      • stilzchen, on 01/16/2008, -2/+15Especially if you live somewhere where they add fluoride.
        • BESTenemy, on 01/16/2008, -3/+14Fluoride is a compound commonly found in tin ore used for hat production.
        • soupdawg30, on 01/16/2008, -0/+3Thank you Mr. Wizard.
        • tb0n3r, on 01/16/2008, -3/+26Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face.
          • bobcatred, on 01/17/2008, -2/+1I dunno if it's a communist plot, but I'll agree wholeheartedly on the monstrously conceived and dangerous part.
          • juicebag, on 01/17/2008, -2/+1I don't like the concept of anything put in the water.
            *coughyearzeroparepincough*
          • Bamborzled, on 01/17/2008, -0/+2*Ahem* Dr. Strangelove reference */ahem*
        • igyigyigy, on 01/16/2008, -0/+16Exactly. It's the commies, after our precious bodily fluids.
      • dsmx, on 01/16/2008, -3/+8fluoride added to the water helps prevent tooth decay.
        • lintmonkey, on 01/16/2008, -3/+1Contact with fluoride, yes. Ingestion is poisonous. You're not supposed to swallow your toothpaste, but drink up.
        • dullly, on 01/16/2008, -1/+11Flouride has saved more lives this century than any other invention. It is a very beneficial poison.
          All substances are poisons; there is none which is not a poison. The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy. Even drinking too much water will kill you.
        • swordedge, on 01/16/2008, -1/+12The number one thing humanity did to extend life was to stop ***** in our drinking water.
      • jd33, on 01/16/2008, -4/+1It's a travesty for me to see the dream is over, but I never will forget the day we met, girl I'm gonna miss you.
      • s0nicfreak, on 01/16/2008, -2/+8Human milk is better for you than cow milk, but I'll bet you buy your milk at a store instead of just asking your mom for some.
        • Ataxia2008, on 01/16/2008, -0/+8You lost that bet sir. Sure it gets awkward in public places, but whatever - It's free.
      • badenglishihave, on 01/17/2008, -0/+1Nice use of the word 'travesty.'
      • thecarpe, on 01/17/2008, -0/+1Irony: Bottled water, bottled coke, and bottled oil all have bottles that are made from an oil byproduct. It's the pervasive dependence on oil in the places we're not looking that is going to be our downfall when the oil decided it's all used up...
    • Ajajadude, on 01/16/2008, -2/+34Yeah, my girlfriend's mom just buys cases of water rather than drinking tap water or even buying one of those water pitchers with the filter system (i.e. Brita). It's a huge waste of money if you primarily drink your bottled water at home.
      • mdshort, on 01/16/2008, -3/+5I use bottled water because where I live, Marion, AR, I get regular letters telling me there are contaminants in the water table. I also don't have to worry about spilling it (on electronics).
        • DephexTwin, on 01/16/2008, -0/+7I understand your first point, but for the second point... you do realize you can put water into anything, including a water bottle with a top on it?
    • MoosaofND, on 01/16/2008, -4/+17I takes a lot of gas for that bottled water to get to you, of course!

      Swordegde, I digg ya.
      • thecarpe, on 01/17/2008, -1/+0Irony: it takes gas to make the bottle (petroleum makes plastics).
    • Disodium, on 01/16/2008, -13/+5Sure if you buy the over priced stuff one bottle at a time, i buy a 24 pack of .5L bottles for $4.99 which works out to be about $1.50 a gallon
      • darkane, on 01/16/2008, -2/+27When you could have filled a bottle with your own tap water for less than a penny without creating any waste.
      • louiedog, on 01/16/2008, -3/+17Wow, you pay more for water than people paid for gas less than 10 years ago. I hear that one of you is born every minute.
      • aigulf, on 01/16/2008, -3/+19That's funny. My tap water is around $.02/gallon, and a $5 Brita filter is good for 40 gallons ($0.125/gal). So, filtered tap water costs less than 1/10 of bulk bottled water.
        • Cannon49, on 01/16/2008, -0/+9Stop insulting him with logic and facts ... it hurts to watch.
    • MacGyver2210, on 01/16/2008, -7/+17Dugg purely for metric gas measurement (I'm too high to figure out if it's that or measurment...but now that I type that it looks wrong so I'll stick with measurement)
      • DephexTwin, on 01/16/2008, -2/+5The sad thing is when your computer is too high to spellcheck it for you.
      • kajoob, on 01/17/2008, -2/+1Dugg for you getting high.
      • poopz, on 01/17/2008, -0/+2good job, now everyone in the US is going to switch to metric. just because you dugg this article. congratulations
    • chroko, on 01/16/2008, -12/+7You're lying. Does it make you feel good? Do you feel cool?

      Gasoline is three times more expensive than bottled water in the US. I bought a 2.5 gallon container of distilled water on Sunday for $2.39. Gasoline is over $3 per gallon.
      • Nitesmoke, on 01/16/2008, -1/+4I think they're referring to the avg 20 oz bottle, but I get what you're saying, at my grocery store its .99cents for a gallin of distilled or regular water. Today my gas was 2.94 for a gallon, just wondering why stuff always seems so much cheaper in the south My brother in New York state told me his gas was .$3.35 today, must be the taxes.
        • solistus, on 01/16/2008, -1/+1It's not just taxes, although those play a part; transportation costs are the biggest factor in US gas price disparities. It's a lot cheaper to ship gas from the Gulf to Texas than it is to ship it to New York.
          • Nitesmoke, on 01/17/2008, -0/+1Thanks, that makes sense, but it still doesn't explain why alot of other products are cheaper. Just wondering.
      • Haecceity, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2It's ridiculous to accuse him of lying. Go into a gas station and take a look at the individually-priced bottles of Dasani etc. They cost way more than gas AND IT'S F'ING TAPWATER!
        • chroko, on 03/01/2008, -0/+1By your logic you need $1.2 million to buy a car. Because the only car available is a Bugatti Veyron.

          I agree that it's crazy that people buy tiny bottles of water for high prices. But the statement "bottled water is more expensive than gas" does not apply for all containers of water. Just because one source is expensive does not mean that all are.

          Therefore it's a partial truth - it's a lie by omission.
    • dsmx, on 01/16/2008, -2/+11Oil is not expensive regardless of the price they charge, think about it. First they have to build a rig, then drill a hole, then another, get lucky find some oil, then pump it out, buy and run a super tanker, ship it halfway across the world, send it through the refinery, then put it on trucks and delivery it to the gas stations. They manage to do that for less than bottled water costs, how can you complain at the cost of fuel?
      • Typhoon2009, on 01/16/2008, -1/+5As soon as they find that hole though, they're pumping thousands upon thousands of dollars a minute. Also, the "get lucky" part doesn't apply as much today, we have better methods of finding oil wells :)
        • Exbzurg, on 01/16/2008, -5/+2Does that easier method involve trillion dollar wars? :P
      • Graves138, on 01/16/2008, -2/+4Uh, how about because these record prices are making record profits? More profits than any other companies in the world. And it is a huge drain on the lower and middle class? But hey, they have to do all that work, I guess they deserve to have a monopoly that causes everyone to pay absorbent prices.
      • solistus, on 01/16/2008, -0/+3Ever commodity sounds like an amazing feat to produce if you think about all the steps. The fact remains that gas prices have risen dramatically despite better technology drastically reducing the costs and risks of drilling for oil, and the companies that sell it to us are making windfall profits.

        Some people don't have the luxury of saying "oh, it's twice as expensive but it's still a bargain!" Most people in this country and around the world are on relatively tight budgets, and dramatic rises in the cost of a necessity commodity is very bad news for those people.

        It is true, however, that Americans have been "spoiled" regarding gas prices. Prices in Europe are far higher. However, American society has adapted to this economic reality and become very, very dependent on lots of people having their own cars; in short, we have made ourselves far more dependent on gas, so we need it to be far cheaper to stay afloat.
        • dsmx, on 01/17/2008, -1/+2Oil companies don't make much money though shell make an 8% return on there investments, they just sell so much oil that it appears that there making a lot of money.
      • bernandoo, on 01/16/2008, -0/+3the cost per barrel is rarely over $20.. tack on another $3 a barrel for shipping costs and you're nowhere near $90 a barrel. defending the price of oil by pointing to the costs is like saying diamond miners are justified in using slave labor to keep the costs of diamonds low.
    • KipBond, on 01/16/2008, -2/+3If I drank 10+ Liters (3+ gallons) of water per day, then that would be a good comparison. But, I don't. And besides, I can get 32 bottles (16 L) of water for less than $4 at Sams/Wal-Mart. That's less than $1/gallon.
      • midoritsuru, on 01/16/2008, -1/+3Wal-Mart has such massive bargaining power that the price you pay there for products in general does not reflect their actual cost.
      • Ymeg, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2I can go to a neighbor and get free water.
    • AROZ, on 01/16/2008, -1/+8Bottled water is terrible for the environment. The fossil fuel it takes to transport the bottles, the emissions in the making of the plastic, the fuel burned for the millions who drive to the store to buy the water. Many get thrown out into the garbage too, which ends up in landfills. I kind of feel sorry for those living in desert suburbia, but I feel more sorry for the rest of the world.
      • CiXeL, on 01/16/2008, -0/+3or for that matter, flying it from fiji
    • ApokalypseNow, on 01/16/2008, -1/+9You think bottled water prices are outrageous?

      Try ink for your home printer.
    • flxfxp, on 01/16/2008, -5/+3Macbooks are cheaper then a ***** gallon of gasoline these days
    • timusca, on 01/16/2008, -1/+14So quit your bitching and start drinking gasoline.
    • Jeancarlo, on 01/16/2008, -2/+2Water is for the gays. And plants. :]
      • badenglishihave, on 01/17/2008, -1/+1Your joke doesn't make any sense, but somehow it made me laugh. Dugg.
      • npres1, on 01/17/2008, -0/+0ehmm, so plants=gay

        ?
    • badenglishihave, on 01/17/2008, -0/+1Plus there isn't a "Coke Tax."
      • thisslowdecay, on 01/17/2008, -0/+0In California at least we have to pay CRV
    • Capskid8, on 01/17/2008, -0/+0i just bought a 24 pack of .5L bottles of water for 4.50 from costco, how is that more expensive? I guess it depends how dumb you are when you shop...
    • exomni, on 01/17/2008, -0/+0Quick! Let's invade indonesia! Now that's a water-rich country!
  • iamlXl, on 01/16/2008, -85/+58I'd personally rather drink gasoline than coke anyway. Coke is disgusting.
    • MattnJax, on 01/16/2008, -13/+43I'd take Coke over Pepsi, but Dr. Pepper, Mt. Dew, or Sunkist are my favs.
      • spammishking, on 01/16/2008, -4/+8Henry Weinhard's Root Beer FTW
        • saltyveruca, on 01/16/2008, -0/+0I see your Henry Weinhard's and raise you a Saint Arnold's.
      • captainchris, on 01/16/2008, -2/+8I drink tea, there.
      • blast_flame, on 01/16/2008, -0/+7I really like Dr pepper but it's not sold here in Australia. I get it whenever I can from import shops.
      • scarper86, on 01/16/2008, -3/+6Mt. Dew and Sunkist are nectar of the tards. - A.C.
      • FadieZ, on 01/16/2008, -0/+7Jack Daniels anyone?
      • kxmjb, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2I gotta say I like Mr. Pibb the most, it is hard to find where I live but awesome.
    • sgtbutterscotch, on 01/16/2008, -6/+22Jones Soda ftw
    • Anath3ma, on 01/16/2008, -5/+13Pan-Galactic-Gargleblasters ftw.
    • uziko, on 01/16/2008, -16/+19Why do people get dugg up for making stupid comments? Coke is good, and I can prove it - it's the most popular drink on earth, besides water, people don't drink things they don't like do they? Oh I forgot, it's cool to badmouth things, not because it's bad, just because it makes you look cool. Then you get idiots like the guy saying jones soda is good, yea nasty coke with a content of 10% food dye, real good.
      • saranagati, on 01/16/2008, -1/+9I used to drink at least 4 liters of coke a day and thought the same thing; that people just said it didn't taste good for whatever reason that didn't really relate to how it tastes. Then i cut out most the sugar from my diet which included soda. After about 3 months of not drinking it, it doesn't even sound appetizing at all and definitely not thirst quenching. Thinking about drinking a cup of soda when I'm thirsty now honestly sounds about as good to me as drinking a cup of salt water or bread. It really is an addictive substance, not necessarily because you can't quit drinking it but because your brain actually begins to think that it satisfies your need for thirst which it doesn't, at least not as much as a cup of water or juice. I would have to drink about 3 cups of coke to relieve my thirst for every one drink of water that I drink now.
        • spudnic, on 01/16/2008, -2/+6That's because you drank FOUR ***** LITRES A DAY.
          You'd get sick of any flavour if you drank that much a day.
          • MarkOfTheDead, on 01/16/2008, -0/+3Yeah, but he's talking about going back after taking a break. You'd think the time he got sick of it was when he quit drinking it, not when he tasted it again. He didn't stop drinking it because he was sick of it, he cut sugar out of his diet. Which I would do too if I was thrashing 4 liters a day.
        • PAStheLoD, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2Tap water has a "flavour" too, you know.. it's the refined sugar that mostly causes addiction.
      • sgtbutterscotch, on 01/16/2008, -1/+4Hey, Jones Soda has awesome flavors. That's all I'm saying. Also I assume being made with sugar from sugar cane as opposed to artificial sugar would be better. Also, is food dye bad for you or something?
        • derek20cali, on 01/16/2008, -1/+2HFCS is sugar also.
        • clorby, on 01/16/2008, -2/+1@derek20cali

          no, it's not. sugar comes from the sugar cane plant. high fructose corn syrup comes from corn. one is sugar, the other is a fructose-based sweetener. completely different.
          • derek20cali, on 01/16/2008, -0/+3Wrong.
            Sugar, (the word stems from the Sanskrit sharkara) consists of a class of edible crystalline substances including sucrose, lactose, and fructose. Human taste-buds interpret its flavor as sweet. Sugar as a basic food carbohydrate primarily comes from sugar cane and from sugar beet, but also appears in sorghum, as sugar maple (in maple syrup), and from many other sources. It forms the main ingredient in much candy.
            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar
      • tehsuck1, on 01/16/2008, -1/+5"Then you get idiots like the guy saying jones soda is good, yea nasty coke with a content of 10% food dye, real good."
        ...
        "Oh I forgot, it's cool to badmouth things, not because it's bad, just because it makes you look cool. "
        ....
      • andycr512, on 01/16/2008, -0/+1Actually, tea is the most popular drink on Earth besides water. rec.food.drink.tea says it is dedicated to "Discussion relating to tea, the world's second most consumed beverage (after water), (...)" and other sources say the same, such as this result from Yahoo. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=200801 ...
    • metamorfoza, on 01/16/2008, -1/+3:)
      http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=H2mgnSyhicI
      • bakagaigin, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2I love that movie!! Wish I could remember what it was called... Top Secret?
        • metamorfoza, on 01/16/2008, -0/+1yeah it's a top secret, and I think thats the one of the best scenes (one of the classic actually) in that movie (when Gasoline, drinks..well, gasoline).
    • EXreaction, on 01/16/2008, -6/+7I usually don't like coke either...but if you mix in some Bacardi or Jack Daniels it's not too bad. :D
      • MarkOfTheDead, on 01/16/2008, -0/+3Don't tarnish that delicious alcohol with carbonated fat juice!

        I quote my old boss Jimmy (ACME meat manager) "If you're going to drink, don't be a goddamned pussy about it, just drink. The soda is why you have a headache today"
    • Lionhart, on 01/16/2008, -2/+3If it's not IBC Black Cherry it ain't *****.
    • salvadorwii, on 01/16/2008, -1/+2coke kills you faster
    • ross., on 01/16/2008, -0/+5:O marked as offensive...
    • Renton, on 01/16/2008, -1/+2They sell in this Coke with real sugar in some jewish store around me. We just call it jew coke. It taste 100x better than the normal crap they have in vending machines.
      • Nitesmoke, on 01/16/2008, -0/+4Jew Coke? Is that better than Mexican Meth?
      • DrummerAndrew, on 01/16/2008, -0/+1Mexican coke is the same. Sugar instead of High Fructose Corn Syrup. Jew's have it since it's Kosher.
    • Chassit, on 01/16/2008, -0/+1hahahah
    • Ataxia2008, on 01/16/2008, -0/+1Coke tastes horrible and is ***** bad for your teeth, I'd never drink it again. When I think of coke nowadays, I picture this thick, sweet black honey-like substance. I've totally been put off it.
    • edlowe0, on 01/17/2008, -0/+2you'll roast in Hell for disparaging Coke.
  • Error601, on 01/16/2008, -39/+120Nonsense comparison. The cost of the bottled drinks is almost completely in the bottle and transportation and not the liquid. It's like those stupid printer ink comparisons that neglect the cost of the print head and case.
    • iamlXl, on 01/16/2008, -11/+39I can't believe you got dugg down. Ask anyone who manages a restaurant -- The cost of soda is pennies... A lot of restaurants make the majority of their money off the sale of ridiculously overpriced fountain drinks.
      • 7012, on 01/16/2008, -6/+26Read the fine print - and look at the pic. The price is based on the price of a bottle of Coke sold at Woolworths (a shopping center). Not soda supplied directly from Coca Cola to restaurants in Syrup form. You both missed the point. Its a direct comparison of one product / package to another. A few years ago this situation was very different, hence the reason its interesting / depressing.
        • iamlXl, on 01/16/2008, -18/+8Who the ***** is bottling their gasoline in a liter bottle. it's not a fair comparison. Transportation and manufacturing for the two products are completely different.
          • Ajajadude, on 01/16/2008, -1/+15It's saying that in 2005, it cost roughly $1.55 for 1.25L of gasoline. At the same time, it cost roughly $1.52 for the same volume of Coca-Cola. Why the hell are you people over-analyzing this?
          • giveer, on 01/16/2008, -0/+8Ugh. Dude, no one here is getting into semantics - Nor do they care what it costs the company - The fact average people (not nitpicky 'but, but, but... ' people) care about is what it costs the CONSUMER. What difference does it make to me what Joe Middlemen are making on product A or B if they are both selling it at 10 bucks? At the end of the day, I'm still out 10 bucks. Now relax and have a soda. Or a cup of gas if you happen to be as full of piss n wind as that other commenter up there.
          • soil, on 01/16/2008, -2/+1@iamIXI

            I think you're in danger of the Digg Effect Part Deux. That has nothing to do with servers going down or even your comments being thoughtful or agreeable.

            Now, you're probably being buried because you're fighting it.
        • 7012, on 01/16/2008, -1/+12WTF? Nobody is saying that. Read carefully....

          In the year 2000 a 1.25 L Coke Bottle from Woolworths cost much more than 1.25 Litres of petrol from Shell (not put into a ***** plastic bottle) - but directly from the pump itself. Nowadays, the same amount of Petrol (from the god damn pump) costs more than coke per litre from the shops. The reason they put the petrol in the same bottle as the coke is simply for a visual comparison.
        • chingy1788, on 01/16/2008, -1/+5Woolworths isn't a shopping centre, its a supermarket chain rivaling the Coles supermarket chain
        • pizzas, on 01/16/2008, -2/+2oil is expensive to transport and bottle
    • 7012, on 01/16/2008, -10/+32WTF are you on about. Both are manufactured. Both are liquids. Both are transported. Both serve a purpose. Both require a container. Its about the change in price per litre. 8 years ago coke cost ~$1.20 per litre (in Australia) where as petrol cost $0.65.
      • Navicerts, on 01/16/2008, -4/+7Gas can go in one big container into another. Coke has to go in a *****-ton of little containers. (They don't really deliver gas in a bottle like the picture)
      • Eallan, on 01/16/2008, -1/+2One item is not buried in the earth requiring multi million dollar machines to drill miles deep to get to it.
    • DeskFlyer, on 01/16/2008, -3/+12Printer ink is so expensive because of product tying, not because of the cost of the heads and cases. There really is no direct comparison to the cost of bottled drinks.
    • HigherLogic, on 01/16/2008, -0/+8Actually, the majority of bottled drinks' costs is from advertising, just like music. The promotion of an artist ultimately leaves the record label to make up the costs somewhere...same goes for Coke and anything else.
      • MarkOfTheDead, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2Record companies need to get on the ball and follow soft drink trends.

        Get rid of the ***** flavors no one likes and stop ***** blaming the customers and saying they must all be stealing it and drinking it out of sight. Instead of suing everyone and making up projected sales figures, try coming to terms with the fact that you have an undesired product. Sometimes no matter how well you market a Turd, people will still see it's a turd and not want it.
    • troon, on 01/16/2008, -1/+5Some printer cartridges don't have a print head built in. Canon's, for example, are a box and a sponge, yet they're still pricey.
    • PAStheLoD, on 01/16/2008, -1/+6Oh really? Then read what you've just written. According to your view coke should be even cheaper... so the picture has an even greater "point".
    • psuchad, on 01/16/2008, -0/+7My fuel container cost me $8000 and it was used so I think we can forget the $.10 it cost to make the bottle.
    • happyhappyhappy, on 01/16/2008, -1/+2The cost of the bottled drinks is almost completely in the BRAND. The bottle is cheap.
      • Dige, on 01/16/2008, -0/+1Kinda. I mean I can buy a 2 liter for .99 and a 1.25 liter for 1.25. It's called profit.
    • camino262, on 01/16/2008, -0/+1You pay for gasoline's transportation in the cost too. How much would it cost you to rent a boat, go to the middle east, buy the oil, bring it home, refine it and then sell it. I bet you would have to charge $20 a gallon to break even.
      • hlcno, on 01/16/2008, -0/+1Another note, Pepsi admitted they could sell a 2 liter of Pepsi for almost 1 penny and still make a profit, thats how efficient they are.
        • kgool, on 01/16/2008, -0/+1That is purse cost of materials, Coke and Pepsi spend hundreds of millions if not billions to grab one another's market share.
    • kgool, on 01/16/2008, -2/+1The price of soda is not the bottle or transportation, it is the stupid ***** advertisements and celebrity endorsements that drive up the price. How much do you think it costs Coca-Cola to have Simon, Paula, and Randy drink Coke on American Idol? Who do you think pays for that? Oh, well it is a free market - at least in the US.
  • ZisforZebras, on 01/16/2008, -14/+2....if only gasoline contained soy, then we could market it....
  • Aeaus, on 01/16/2008, -24/+10Wow, the Comment Bury Brigade sure had a field day with this one.
    • bingobongony, on 01/16/2008, -1/+6Perhaps because this submission is stupid. For too many reasons to explain.
    • Thedarklord187, on 01/16/2008, -0/+3and now they've had a field day on your comment as well
  • saggygrandma, on 01/16/2008, -25/+159Pretty stupid when you consider how much effort is put in to drilling, refining and shipping petrol compared to mixing some sugar with water..... Petrol is bloody cheap if you think about the effort it takes to get it in to your car.
    • Mahoney07, on 01/16/2008, -15/+8Sorry I accidently buried your comment when I meant to digg it. I'm a new member of digg sorry.
      • doctordbx, on 01/16/2008, -2/+13I buried his comment because of his little apple logo. I've been on Digg too long.
      • phazon88, on 01/16/2008, -3/+8New to the meanings of thumbs up and thumbs down I see too.
      • Thedarklord187, on 01/16/2008, -1/+2sorry i accidently dugg your comment down as well for not understanding what thumbs up and thumbs down means
      • Navicerts, on 01/16/2008, -0/+1hehehe we know you are being honest due to the content of your post.
    • Aeaus, on 01/16/2008, -8/+3Matter of scale, prices don't reflect production & extraction cost combined with respectable margins. Of course who can blame the producers, capitalism at its best.
    • tacom8, on 01/16/2008, -9/+12careful now, logic and reason have no business in an environmental thread.
      • MrESaulved, on 01/16/2008, -6/+3What then is the logic or reason of going through such extra-ordinary lengths to put gas, if it is so impossibly expensive to create, in a fuel tank?

        There are demonstrably cheaper alternatives that would get even cheaper if economies of scale were taken into account and future impact on the health of the population by pollution and the resultant geo-political stability were merely a happy side-effect.
        • tacom8, on 01/16/2008, -2/+3is it expensive? i think that's the point here, considering the amount of work involved its still cheap for what it is... will it always be? no, but for the time being consider what we take accept as acceptable markup (cola), and compare it to another product that surely involves much more work (oil) an consider that its still a bargain all things considered...

          i won't argue the other side of the coin as you point out. However, in due time it will be advantageous to take advantage of other tech, that will be cheaper, just not yet..
      • miezu78, on 01/17/2008, -0/+0hahahahahahaha
    • digitalgreek, on 01/16/2008, -2/+3amen. and the word petrol sounds cool
    • sonofman1984, on 03/03/2008, -0/+3Tell that to the Oil/Gas Companies...their profits don't reflect that argument.
    • Shelter22, on 01/16/2008, -0/+3you mean mixing high fructose corn syrup with water
    • bernandoo, on 01/16/2008, -1/+4when you think about all the process of farming the corn and other ingredients, all of a sudden it doesn't seem so simple.
    • Eallan, on 01/16/2008, -1/+1Thanks for the logic. If half these complainers had any idea what goes into getting gas into a civic they'd be a little more forgiving. Work a week in the oilfield then call me, but bury me before that.
    • crsd36, on 01/17/2008, -0/+1Actually many countries, especially the US are receiving substantially cheaper fuel prices due to massive subsidies that the government provides. In Europe, from what I understand, fuel prices are well over double what we in the US pay.
  • kru1e, on 01/16/2008, -2/+223I know the world has changed when people start drinking gasoline silly!
    • ooooo, on 01/16/2008, -1/+6It happens, we have a problem with natives in our area doing that at the station I work at... -_-
      • moortux, on 01/16/2008, -0/+7will that make me tanked?
        • DephexTwin, on 01/16/2008, -0/+3No, but it might give you gas.
        • twishart, on 01/16/2008, -1/+0Posting in legendary thread
        • volker00, on 01/17/2008, -0/+0I know you don't smoke weed. I know this. But I'm gonna git you high octane today. 'cause it's Friday, you ain't got no job, and you ain't got ***** to do!
    • gmacneill, on 01/17/2008, -0/+1This machine runs on high octane fuel.
  • Pyoobs, on 01/16/2008, -12/+19As it should be....
    • ghandi69, on 01/16/2008, -1/+2Couldn't agree more. I think everyone would agree that gasoline is more valuable than coke, so it definitely should cost more.
    • jcgisback, on 01/16/2008, -0/+1Exactly. Considering it's a non-renewable resource, I don't have a problem with it costing more than the Coke I had with my dinner. At the same time, however, I just wish it were pricey because we know how valuable it is, not because of the war or to line the pockets of oil execs.
  • skyshock1, on 01/16/2008, -4/+295Problem is you don't buy Coke in 15 gallon increments every week.

    Well... most of us don't.
    • MalTheObscure, on 01/16/2008, -12/+6If you're buying 15 gallons of fuel a week, you are probably driving a stupid car.
      • digitalunit, on 01/16/2008, -1/+5At 30 miles to the gallon that's 450 miles.. My Volkswagen Golf gets about 21.. I go through that much. =)
        What am I supposed to do? Invest a few grand into a biofuel vehicle?
        • MalTheObscure, on 01/16/2008, -4/+2Sorry, either driving a stupid car or driving way too much. I commute an hour a day and I only use up 6 gallons a week, tops. For 30 mpg, he'd have to drive 64 miles a day, weekends included.
        • UrlorJkron, on 01/16/2008, -1/+1Get a Golf with a TDI.
        • MisterRik, on 01/16/2008, -1/+6Your golf gets 21mpg? Can I suggest finding some way to remove the welding between your foot and the floor!
        • djk21108, on 01/16/2008, -1/+2My Golf gets less than 21 and its 2003. It's really an awful car for mileage. It's got two big of an engine with not enough power. It's probably one of the worst made power trains of all time.
        • IChazI, on 01/17/2008, -0/+1It's more of a combination of the motor and the weight of the car. VW is notorious for building some of the heaviest small cars.
      • Fozefy, on 01/16/2008, -0/+1or living in the country.
        • psykiv, on 01/16/2008, -0/+5More like living in the big city, where a 10 mile drive becomes a two hour commute because of bumper to bumper traffic. Cars eat up gas quickly when idling ;)
        • kjd84, on 01/16/2008, -0/+3Its not so much the idling but the constant start stopping and going up and down in gears! If you are cruising on a quiet highway at 2500rpms in 5th gear you are using much less fuel then when you constantly accelerating and braking.
      • uptoit209, on 01/16/2008, -0/+3A lot of people i know drive at least 60 miles to and from work each day, so yea it ads up, really cant see riding bikes to work , and no we cannot afford to live near work.
      • skyshock1, on 01/16/2008, -0/+1I drive 25 min. to work and back everyday. I have a Honda Accord. Yeah, I go through 15 gallons a week.
    • Samohtneas, on 01/16/2008, -12/+1My Fiero gets a good 24 miles, but thats after I got a bore of 3.3mm done. So it used to be around 25 or 26.

      Some people do buy that much gas a week though, country folk or just really busy urban dwellers. I personally have to drive back between multiple cities daily, so..
      • sdloveless, on 01/16/2008, -2/+13Dugg down for admitting to driving a Fiero.
        • werkerb33, on 01/16/2008, -0/+9Further Dugg down for admitting he actually bored out a Fiero block.
      • IChazI, on 01/17/2008, -0/+1Seriously man a Fiero is a car you're not supposed to be proud of.
    • cougar618, on 01/16/2008, -9/+1How does that relate to anything anyone said. Why should anyone here but you care?
      • badenglishihave, on 01/17/2008, -0/+2It's related to the article? Perhaps you thought he was using the word 'you' directly in reference to an earlier post.

        The word 'you' may be used to specify 'a person' without referring to anyone specifically. For instance, you could use it in a hypothetical situation (as I have just done.)
    • moraldebate, on 01/16/2008, -3/+1You're right, they won't sell it to me in gallons - only kilograms.
    • TruthforAll, on 01/17/2008, -1/+7I've seen quite a few extremely obese families buying that much in one trip to the grocery store.. This is America after all.
  • realjames, on 01/16/2008, -13/+3Is that $1.55 USD or Australian dollars?
    • captainchris, on 01/16/2008, -0/+10What's the difference?
      • realjames, on 01/16/2008, -1/+5Well, anymore only about 13 cents...I guess it's kind of irrelevant, anyways.
    • acceleration, on 01/16/2008, -0/+1Read the writing at the bottom of the pic...
  • Impact0115, on 01/16/2008, -3/+123Yeah, Coke sure is expensive nowadays.
    • SearchX, on 01/16/2008, -2/+10Yep, Coke is nothing but corn syrup and water. They don't even make it with real sugar anymore because sugar is more expensive. Gas comes from pressurized plants and dinosaurs that take millions of years to create, which needs to be located and drilled and refined. Why can't we fuel our cars with coke?
      • banq59, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2Actually you can get coke with real sugar outside of the US. It is delicious.
        • harajukukei, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2you can also get delicious mcdonalds burgers made with real beef outside of the US, but lets not go making everyone jealous.
          • ep53, on 01/16/2008, -0/+1Im from London, UK and a few weeks back i went to New York and said i couldnt go to the USA without eating at the Golden Gates, and let me tell you that it was a HUGE let down the McDonalds in Europe tast 200% better. The ones in AUS taste even better though.
          • Ataxia2008, on 01/16/2008, -0/+0200% better? That's saying a LOT
        • braeden0613, on 01/17/2008, -0/+2you can get it in the us...just find a store close to the mexican border and they probably have it
        • AmICoolNow, on 01/17/2008, -0/+1Yeah, it's actually really good. I live in Southern California and there's a Costco near here that carries Mexican Coke most of the time.
    • ep53, on 01/16/2008, -2/+2Did you mean the drug?
      • ggacid, on 01/16/2008, -0/+1Nope! Cause those prices have relatively stayed the same since the 70's!
    • tillerman00, on 01/17/2008, -0/+1Hell, almost makes you wanna stop drinkin it.
  • TomK88, on 01/16/2008, -1/+80Sugar and water costs less than an expensive-to-extract liquid that the modern world depends on for energy, transportation, plastics, and many other things? Not very surprising.
    • ShugNinx21, on 01/16/2008, -3/+4Actually, Gasoline is only one product that is extracted from crude oil. So that expensive process is spread over a multitude of products where as Coke is just mixing Sugar and Water and stuff.

      I don't know why everyone talks about crude oil and extraction from the earth as if the only thing that comes out of it is gasoline.
    • digitalunit, on 01/16/2008, -3/+1You sir have ruined my fun.
    • UtopiaInTheSky, on 01/16/2008, -1/+4It takes gas to make the coke after all, right? Makes sense it'd cost more.
    • DangerCollie, on 01/16/2008, -1/+2I doubt there's been real sugar in Coke for quite some time. More likely high fructose corn syrup...and the price on that is set to escalate in the next 6 months.
      Thank the vicious sugar lobby in the US for artificially high prices. Your tax dollars at work...for someone else.
    • 25mL, on 01/17/2008, -0/+1Considering how your precious sought after gasoline used to cost under a dollar for a gallon not a liter 10 years ago, we can see why that comparison was made. You sir are missing the message.
  • SniperZero, on 01/16/2008, -10/+4dr pepper ftw.
    umm damn you got cheap fuel LOL... its way more expensive where I am. Then again coke is like $2.50 a bottle lol.
    • 0x0000ff, on 01/16/2008, -0/+1Since you mention Dr Pepper I gather you're from the USA. Have you tried converting Litres into Gallons? I highly doubt your fuel is more expensive.
      • SniperZero, on 01/16/2008, -0/+1Dr pepper is in Australia. I have seen and bought it before. At the moment our fuel is like 1.59 here where I am in australia
      • zigspective, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2Dr Pepper is also available in Canada, Poland, Mexico, Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, The Netherlands, Slovakia, Finland, Austria, Czech Republic, Belgium, Norway, Japan and South Korea
      • Ataxia2008, on 01/16/2008, -1/+0And Here in the UK...unfortunately.
  • drinkdrankdrunk, on 01/16/2008, -1/+68what about this?

    http://eatliver.com/i.php?n=2648
    • soil, on 01/16/2008, -2/+1Disturbing. Time to load up my printer with bubbling crude...oil that is.

      Or even Penicillin
    • Crankt, on 01/16/2008, -0/+34A liter of blood costs $400? Next time I'm going to ask for an extra cookie.
    • wrestlingnrj, on 01/16/2008, -0/+1Good thing my charger doesn't run on HP Black Ink #45
    • phantasyhero, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2Bottled water is more expensive than crude oil?
      *Major facepalm*
    • huwy, on 01/16/2008, -0/+4Does anybody know why ink is so damned expensive?
      • darkyplasma, on 01/16/2008, -2/+2large companies use it more than people use oil, therefore making the supply and demand. which makes it more expensive. just like starbucks ^.^
    • cl2yp71c, on 01/17/2008, -0/+1Printer Ink costs more than my blood...
      Bummer
    • Xcel, on 01/17/2008, -0/+4Now my question is: Where will people BUY my blood?
      • Kr4t05, on 01/17/2008, -0/+1"I have an associate who is interested in your proposition. Meet me at this address at 4PM, next Tuesday."
        /Al Capone
  • Impact0115, on 01/16/2008, -20/+9Yeah, Coke sure is expensive nowadays.
    • fani, on 01/16/2008, -2/+1I heard you the first time 3 comments above.
  • dacris, on 01/16/2008, -8/+2Great. Just great. If we keep feeding them, our cars will soon grow artificial intelligence and force us into slave labor to extract the last remaining reserves of oil for their consumption. Sounds a bit like The Matrix actually... our machines, putting US to work!
  • Richandler, on 01/16/2008, -6/+6This price is also artificial. The refusal to drill and bring lower gas prices is crippling the economy. Both sides of the parties refuse and therefore we will suffer for the next decade at the least. The problem is solvable, the hardheadedness, not so much.
    • EXreaction, on 01/16/2008, -2/+6So drill more, lower the price, have more people buy more fuel more often all so we can run out of oil sooner and pollute even more?

      That'll really help...
      • ShugNinx21, on 01/16/2008, -3/+1If there is a finite amount of fuel down there and we plan on using it till it's all gone then there will be just as much pollution. It will just be spread over a longer period of time.
        • zigspective, on 01/16/2008, -0/+4Yes but not all oil product is for the production of gas and there are better ways to use it than to just burn it up in our vehicles. I for one would like to continue to have plastics in my future.
    • MisterRik, on 01/16/2008, -1/+2Refusal to drill where? Alaska? You do realise that there is only enough fuel to run the US at present consumption for about 12 months there, don't you?
  • XxLindyxX, on 01/16/2008, -0/+5http://www.randomuseless.info/gasprice/gasprice.pn ...
  • HaloZero, on 01/16/2008, -2/+24Coke is much cheaper at higher volumes.
  • down4twenty, on 01/16/2008, -20/+1*****, coke is like 89 cents for a gallon, gas is almost buck forty.
  • Anath3ma, on 01/16/2008, -8/+7I'm fueled by dew.
  • rsc0, on 01/16/2008, -4/+7welcome to a few years ago...
  • adamtopher, on 01/16/2008, -8/+2coke is sugar and water. gas is oil and chemicals.
    • darkciti2, on 01/16/2008, -1/+1Coke used to be sugar and water, until the energy companies discovered that it could be a potential energy source.
      Today (20080116), Coke/Cola/Soda/Coca-Cola/etc. is mostly comprised of "high-fructose corn syrup" and not "cane sugar".
      • Gizza, on 01/16/2008, -0/+3Only in the US. Everywhere else it still uses sugar.
    • BigLLamasHouse, on 01/16/2008, -0/+0your mom is sugar and chemicals
    • Zlorp, on 01/17/2008, -0/+1great ***** observation
  • Feigne, on 01/16/2008, -4/+20Anyone else immediately reminded of this?

    Sarge: Gentlemen, we can debate the fine points all day, but the fact remains that a gallon of gas still costs less today than a gallon of milk.
    Church: Yeah, but you don't drink three gallons of milk every time you drive to work.
    Sarge: Maybe you don't.
    • psykiv, on 01/16/2008, -1/+2Maybe where you live. A gallon of milk at the supermarket is $6.49 or $6.99, depending on whatever the store manager's mood is. Why do you think CVS sells them at $3.49/gal? It's their loss leader, it gets people through the door. I pumped gas today at $3.10/gal.
      Miami sucks :(
      • sremick, on 01/16/2008, -0/+7Milk is almost $7/gallon in Miami? WTF???

        Milk here is $3-4/gal EVERYWHERE
  • DTRNathen, on 01/16/2008, -8/+1They just ***** found the gas price when it was most expensive and the Coke price when/where it was cheapest.
    ***** submission.
    • rockorager, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2Coke is cheapest at Woolworth's? I highly doubt that
  • 89vision, on 01/16/2008, -0/+22Drink water...
  • soil, on 01/16/2008, -1/+129Funny thing about that picture. It makes TOTAL SENSE to me that it would cost more to run my car than to buy a soft drink.

    ...not that I like paying out the nose for gas, mind you.
    • basic0, on 01/16/2008, -0/+4Yeah, I don't quite get this either. Is the point that gas isn't really as expensive as it's made out to be? I mean, my morning coffee is about 350-400 mL and it costs $1.39 CDN, whereas the last time I filled my car up it was $1.04 a litre. When you put it in that perspective, you wonder why people aren't boycotting Tim Horton's for their "gouging" their customers.
      • kjd84, on 01/16/2008, -0/+1$1.04L is a really good price I would love to have $1.04 (even $1.15 atm) currently in Australia it is 1.40 per litre for 91RON fuel.
    • Ukonu, on 01/16/2008, -1/+20The whole idea of the picture completely backfired. Most intelligent people looked at it and thought: "Wow....Coke is expensive".
    • strad2, on 01/16/2008, -1/+0You are paying much more for your gasoline - many of the costs of the gasoline are externalized/subsidized.
  • hugeposuer, on 01/16/2008, -3/+3They forgot to take into account that Shell is just really expensive.

    Milk still costs more, btw. ;)
    • UrlorJkron, on 01/16/2008, -0/+1Some places. It keeps going back and forth here.
    • kjd84, on 01/16/2008, -0/+1Milk Should cost more IMO after all we consume much less milk and coke then we do oil.
    • frenchi, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2Milk is expensive nowadays because of the high cost of corn. Corn is expensive because we make ethanol to alleviate our dependence on foreign oil....basically the price of milk is almost directly related to the price of oil... go figure.
  • specialbuddy1, on 01/16/2008, -4/+14Reminds me of the time I ran out of gas on my snowmobile. All I had was a pop bottle and I was only about 300 feet away from the station so I filled it up and the thing leaked all over me because the plastic isn't rated to hold gas and it went right through it. Inaccurate because pop bottles suck at holding gas. :)
    • PurpleSfinx, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2...Your life sounds so interesting. I'm not being sarcarstic.
    • aelias, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2You could have put it in a paper cup from the gas station and it would have been fine.
  • uziko, on 01/16/2008, -7/+2This ***** is dumb.
  • YKKonMyZipper, on 01/16/2008, -3/+3You know its going to be really bad when gas cost more the coke.. as in cocaine. I wonder how long before that comes true.
    • FadieZ, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2*tha
    • frenchi, on 01/16/2008, -0/+1when that happens you can just leave your car at home and fuel yourself with coke.
  • APerfectTool59, on 01/16/2008, -3/+2Old but applies now just like it did then, if not more so.
  • ictharus, on 01/16/2008, -6/+0Where I am, milk's cheaper than gasoline...and milk doesn't grow on trees.
  • Elwayish, on 01/16/2008, -0/+53 bucks to move something that is like 2 tons or more 20 to 40 miles is still not bad ... try pushing it 20 to 40 feet lol
  • indyhouse, on 01/16/2008, -1/+1That's stupid. Milk is $3.62 a gallon where I live and gas is $2.99. There's something wrong with that, if you ask me. Why the heck is milk more than gas?
    • ShugNinx21, on 01/16/2008, -0/+6When you start using 10 gallons of milk per week then we'll talk.
      • psykiv, on 01/16/2008, -2/+1But we DO use 10 gallons of milk a week...
    • werkerb33, on 01/16/2008, -0/+4It's the Milk Cartel. They know you'll never eat cereal without it...
    • frenchi, on 01/16/2008, -0/+1Milk is expensive nowadays because of the high cost of corn (used to make animal feed). Corn is expensive because it's in high demand to make ethanol, to help ease our dependence on foreign oil....basically the price of milk is almost directly related to the price of oil... go figure.
    • CroMag, on 01/16/2008, -0/+1Both are evil.
  • bingobongony, on 01/16/2008, -3/+3I can still easily get 2 liter bottles of Coke for $1.09. 99 cents when it is on sale which is pretty often. So this is been true for several years now.
  • CSharpSauce, on 01/16/2008, -0/+58So invent a car that runs on Soda... problem solved. I'll take my Nobel later
    • darkciti2, on 01/16/2008, -1/+1It could have been accomplished, but the energy industry put the kabash on it here in the US. They did so by converting US Sugar products into "High Fructose Corn Syrup" derivatives.
      The result is that American inventors have been stopped and sold to US MegaCorporations for the sake of shareholder profits - and to the detriment of our values, our integrity and our Constitution.

      If George W. Bush declares Martial Law, please help us liberate the USA!
      • Amadeus2490, on 01/16/2008, -0/+1Then make an engine that runs on High-Fructose corn syrup.
    • werkerb33, on 01/16/2008, -0/+1By the time you factor in the additional catalytic costs for Mentos, it might not be be cost effective anymore.
    • stoppedcode12, on 01/17/2008, -0/+1http://www.news-antique.com/?id=782845
      http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:_wHHNUqEZuMJ: ...

      I also remember hearing that military vehicles can also run on cola, but I can't find anything about that just yet.
  • Eldorian, on 01/16/2008, -1/+2In the last 10 years or so I've always said when a gallon of gas costs more than a gallon of milk it's really time to start worrying... we're almost there :(
  • D3koy, on 01/16/2008, -1/+3Gas is >3.50$/gal up here in The Great Dank North (Humboldt County, CA)
  • jmpeagle, on 01/16/2008, -1/+11sucks to be Australian then

    since 1.25 liters = 0.32493162 gallons
    then $1.55/1.25 liters = 1.55*(1/0.32493162) = $4.77 per gallon which is still way more than we pay in the U.S.
    • jmpeagle, on 01/16/2008, -1/+7whoops forgot to divide by 1.1324 which is the exchange rate from Aussie dollars to U.S. dollars putting the price around $4.21 which is still way more than the $3 we pay now
    • Tephra, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2Today I paid $1.39 per litre (aud) - and today is a cheap day...:(
      • LordSeth, on 01/16/2008, -0/+1I paid $1.49 and that is down from $1.52. Diesel is around $1.58 per Litre. I hate living in Rural Australia.
    • marky125, on 01/16/2008, -0/+1^^^^
      $1.39AUD per litre = $4.69USD per gallon
      • marky125, on 01/16/2008, -0/+1What the... how did my comment get above Tephra's? :S
        • jmpeagle, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2it's not, when you go to your comment through the profile, the order on replied comments gets switched. Click "view all comments" and it will switch places back to normal.
    • DemDude, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2I just paid 8US$ per gallon, which is somewhere between cheap and average in germany.
  • o0adam0o, on 01/16/2008, -0/+4Yeah and we dont drink 10-20 gallons a week.
  • salvadorwii, on 01/16/2008, -1/+4i will put coke on my car, its cheaper
  • esotericguy, on 01/16/2008, -6/+4holy hell! it's QGYH2
    he submits the top stories over at reddit!

    TRAITOR!
  • senatorpjt, on 01/16/2008, -2/+3My drink is gin, so unless gas starts costing $80/gallon I'm not going to get concerned. Even then, I'd probably just start putting it in my car.
  • ScottoGato, on 01/16/2008, -1/+7I'm going to have to find a cheaper alternative for molotovs.
  • AWBoy666, on 01/16/2008, -1/+15It should cost more......it's a natural resource transported and refined from across the world versus water with sugar added.......?
    • kjd84, on 01/16/2008, -2/+6Whereas Water and Sugar are not natural resources???
      • GlassParkingLot, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2I think it was the "transported and refined from across the world" that was the point there
        • kjd84, on 01/17/2008, -0/+1Ok So sugar is not transported and refined from across the world??? We just mine sugar do we? Are you sure we don't grow it from cane and then refine it into several products???
    • Shelter22, on 01/16/2008, -1/+4again, high fructose corn syrup, not sugar
  • vwgtiturbo, on 01/16/2008, -10/+1Hellooooo... Gasoline doesn't cost anything to make. It is a BY-PRODUCT of refining raw crude. The only cost should be containment/transportation, and associated labor.
    • Beaches, on 01/16/2008, -0/+7are you serious?
    • quiggibub, on 01/16/2008, -0/+4Are you a retard or just stupid?
    • happyperson, on 01/16/2008, -0/+8Yeah i mean come on... all they have to do is prospect the oil, drill down to it, construct a well, build 100 ton pump atop the well, build a pipeline, build, run and power an oil refinery, then ship the resulting product all over the planet, I cant see any costs inherent in that.

      ..and another thing, why do we have to pay for beef, thats just a by-product of a dead cow.

      /sarcasm
      did you by any chance use to work for Enron?
    • endoccupation, on 01/16/2008, -0/+1apparently power and human life is also free. Do you have any diamonds?
  • SLockhart, on 01/16/2008, -1/+2Lame. Considering Coke is pretty much just sugar and water it should cost less. The more gas costs the better of we'll all be.
  • bylle, on 01/16/2008, -1/+0i can't serioulsy remember a time where where gasoline was cheaper than any form of softdrink you could buy at the gas stations, some even cost triple the amount of gasoline
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