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- springo, on 01/16/2008, -9/+676And the gas price is from August 2005...
- 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.
- skyshock1, on 01/16/2008, -4/+296Problem is you don't buy Coke in 15 gallon increments every week.
Well... most of us don't. - kru1e, on 01/16/2008, -2/+223I know the world has changed when people start drinking gasoline silly!
- swordedge, on 01/16/2008, -9/+145Bottled water is a travesty. Filter it instead since tap water is better for you than bottled.
- saggygrandma, on 01/16/2008, -25/+160Pretty 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.
- FadieZ, on 01/16/2008, -9/+139"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.' "
- soil, on 01/16/2008, -1/+130Funny 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. - Impact0115, on 01/16/2008, -3/+124Yeah, Coke sure is expensive nowadays.
- 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.
- 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.
- chrisdelta, on 01/16/2008, -1/+731.25 Liters is .33 gallons, which would put the cost per gallon at $4.65
- drinkdrankdrunk, on 01/16/2008, -1/+68what about this?
http://eatliver.com/i.php?n=2648 - CSharpSauce, on 01/16/2008, -0/+59So invent a car that runs on Soda... problem solved. I'll take my Nobel later
- 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 ... - 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.
- Crankt, on 01/16/2008, -0/+35A liter of blood costs $400? Next time I'm going to ask for an extra cookie.
- 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" - 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.
- MattnJax, on 01/16/2008, -13/+43I'd take Coke over Pepsi, but Dr. Pepper, Mt. Dew, or Sunkist are my favs.
- inactive, 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- tb0n3r, on 01/16/2008, -3/+26Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face.
- inactive, on 01/16/2008, -10/+33WTF 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 $0.65.
- 89vision, on 01/16/2008, -0/+22Drink water...
- HaloZero, on 01/16/2008, -2/+24Coke is much cheaper at higher volumes.
- inactive, on 01/16/2008, -6/+26Read the fine print - and look at the pic. The price is based on the price of a bottle of Coke sold at Woolworths (a shopping center). Not soda supplied directly from Coca Cola to restaurants in Syrup form. You both missed the point. Its a direct comparison of one product / package to another. A few years ago this situation was very different, hence the reason its interesting / depressing.
- MacGyver2210, on 01/16/2008, -0/+20Also, the price is in Australian Dollar$
- 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.
- 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".
- WayOfTheIronPaw, on 01/16/2008, -3/+22If you don't count a certain trillion dollar war.
- 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.
- MarkOfTheDead, on 01/16/2008, -0/+18Goatse
- FadieZ, on 01/16/2008, -4/+22bang.
- doctordbx, on 01/16/2008, -0/+16Read the fine print... it's in Australia.
You can find out about Australia and where it is by going to Google Earth. - igyigyigy, on 01/16/2008, -0/+16Exactly. It's the commies, after our precious bodily fluids.
- 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.
- sgtbutterscotch, on 01/16/2008, -6/+22Jones Soda ftw
- 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. - 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.......?
- 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.
- 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?
- stilzchen, on 01/16/2008, -2/+15Especially if you live somewhere where they add fluoride.
- 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. - timusca, on 01/16/2008, -1/+14So quit your bitching and start drinking gasoline.
- swordedge, on 01/16/2008, -1/+12The number one thing humanity did to extend life was to stop ***** in our drinking water.
- inactive, 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. - BESTenemy, on 01/16/2008, -3/+14Fluoride is a compound commonly found in tin ore used for hat production.
- jtbandes, on 01/16/2008, -3/+14An asterisk is not a metacharacter in regular expressions.
Epic fail. -
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