Why are so many willing to pay $8.00 a gallon for water, but complain about gas prices?

Question

Why are so many willing to pay $8.00 a gallon for water, but complain about gas prices?

Answer 1

Aye that puzzles me to

Answer 2

These types of comparisons are totally meaningless.

First of all, nobody needs bottled water. Everyone can get along just fine without it. A lack of it won't significantly impact anyone. In addition, we don't buy it 30-plus gallons at a time on a weekly basis.

The same can be said for everything else people like to compare the cost of gasoline to - perfume, coffee, beer - just about any product that comes in liquid form.

The all-time low was when an oil company executive did just that on Bill O'Reilly's show a couple of years ago. When asked about high gasoline prices and the companies' profits of billions of dollars, the executive replied, "You pay a lot more for Starbuck's coffee." Brilliant.

Answer 3

you dont use 25 gallons of water in two - three days if that going to work or school

Answer 4

I can't remember when I ever paid that much for water - Unless it was last year when I had to buy a new deep well submersible pump, sitting 250 ft. in the ground. By the time that headache was over, cost of loss of mind and all, $8 would have been a bargain.

I complain about gas so much because in our rural state, the average commute is 11/2 hours, forty some miles and no public transport down at the corner to take you to work. My business centers around delivery, which takes fuel to run these delivery routes, and has come down to one main factor - the car you drive! You need to be able to profit from your work - and if you are constantly pumping gasoline at $3.70 a gallon (current price 4-29-08) it will eat you alive in $$$. Which in economic standpoint is becoming harder to do everyday.

Answer 5

People use a lot more gasoline than bottled water.  When it costs $1500 to fill up the truck that is bringing your dinner to the market, you will notice.

Answer 6

Congrats on being the one millionth person to ask this question. It never fails to get a laugh from me. Every time I read it it's like the first time. It's like fake bullet holes on cars, pretend baseballs through the windshield, stick figures of your family on the back window, plastic spinner hubcaps, God, the list goes on. These things all get so much better with age. Funnier by the minute, richer with each retelling.