DocWatson
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baptistpreach said:
No disrespect intended. I apologize if it came across that way.
You are absolutely correct that bottled water is more expensive than gas. So are a lot of other things here in the USA. I have a comparison chart of the prices of everyday things that someone sent me a couple years ago (can't find it now, of course) that shows how outrageous some "extravagant" things are priced when compared to necessities. But are you factoring in how much our government subsidizes our gas prices ?? We are paying for the gas to be priced lower that it is in the rest of the world through our income taxes. It's still over $4/gallon in Japan and many European countries.
But when we start reading about all the trace amounts of pharmacutical drugs that are in our water supply because people excret them in their urine that is flushed into the rivers & streams through the sewer system, drawn out downstream by the different water companies and their filtering systems are not equipped to filter them out. Then you have to wonder what else is in the water supply that they don't know about or aren't telling us.
I don't carry around store-bought bottles of water because of the petroleum used to make the damn bottles, but do buy 3 gallon jugs that sit on the kitchen counter and dispense through a spout (no room for a dispenser for 5 gallon bottles or storage space for the extras) that I use for coffee, tea & drinking water as well as for some cooking (not to boil potatoes or cook pasta though).
