The price of Gas versus Printer Ink

Now we know why those printer cartridges cost so much.


Trying to find something funny in the absurdity of it all.


All these examples do NOT imply that gasoline is cheap; it just illustrates how outrageous some prices are....



You will be really shocked by the last one!

(At least, I was...)



Compared with Gasoline......



Think a gallon of gas is expensive?





This makes one think, and also puts things in perspective to other things we buy.



Diet Snapple 16 oz $1.29 ... $10.32 per gallon



Lipton Ice Tea 16 oz $1.19 ..........$9.52 per gallon



Gatorade 20 oz $1.59 ..... $10.17 per gallon



Ocean Spray 16 oz $1.25 ......... $10.00 per gallon



Brake Fluid 12 oz $3.15 ...... $33.60 per gallon



Vick's Nyquil 6 oz $8.35 ... $178.13 per gallon



Pepto Bismol 4 oz $3.85 .. $123.20 per gallon



Whiteout 7 oz $1.39 ....... . $25.42 per gallon



Scope 1.5 oz $0.99 .....$84.48 per gallon



And this is the REAL KICKER...



Evian water 9 oz $1.49..$21.19 per gallon! $21.19 for WATER and the buyers don't even know the source

(Evian spelled backwards is Naive.)



Ever wonder why printers are so cheap?



So they have you hooked for the ink.



Someone calculated the cost of the ink at...............



(you won't believe it....but it is true........)



$5,200 a gal. (five thousand two hundred dollars)



So, the next time you're at the pump,be glad your car doesn't run on water, Scope, or



Whiteout, Pepto Bismol, Nyquil or God forbid, Printer Ink!





Just a little humor to help ease the pain of your next trip to the pump...



And - If you don't pass this along to at least one person, your muffler will fall off!!



Okay, your muffler won't really fall off...but, you might run out of toilet paper.

Nice thing about all those is .....you can live without them......unfortunatly you can't live without fuel in most places becasue there is no public transportation and very few of us work at home.


good point tho.........

Yes but brake fluid is delicious!!

ok you need to shop differntly

quit buying those singles

and after all how often do you buy one gallon of gas

one gallon of soda (pop) is 3$ if you buy it on sale at a discount store 12x12=144oz how many oz in a gallon 128?

now if you buy 20 gallons of soda (pop) you could probably even work out a better price

and how come they can sell the gas 10 cents agallon cheaper if you use you station chase card (sounds like discrimination to me)

just a thought to ponder

Man, I feel so lucky to be paying higher gas prices compared to all those other things!!!

God Bless OPEC!

Now I think I'll go out and buy some taxed groceries with the stimulus check I didn't get yet!!

this is an incorrect statement

sorry it may be inconvenient to live without gas powered vehicles but the amish have been doing it for years

and you do not have to live miles and miles from where you work or play move closer to there

bicycles can go 30 mph if ya move within 5 miles of where ya need to be it will take ya ten minutes to get there and you health will improve as well

now with that said

d**n oil companies anyway

oh yeah i may be wrong but i do not think canda is an opec member (canada is the #1 importer of oil to the united states)

I think you misunderstood me.

I meant we shouldn't feel so lucky to be paying more for gas, just because gas per gallon is cheaper than, say, printer ink!

Those are ridiculous comparisons anyway!

How often do you have to refill printer ink compared with a gas tank?

When you live in a suburb you can take the bus or the train (which I do) but they can't take you everywhere!

You can ride your bike to work if you live close enough to work, which most of us don't!

Move closer to work?

Easier said than done when you're locked in a yearly lease!

So, have YOU gotten rid of your car yet?

Are YOU riding in a horse and buggy yet?

And I was kidding about that OPEC statement!

When I mentioned OPEC, I meant the foreign oil cartels, which includes Saudi Arabia, who we get a lot of oil from.

So I didn't include Canada. I can't fact check everything!

no i still have a car

a geo metro 40 + a gal

horse nd buggy no

move not so easy true but hey then pay the price

cant fact check everything well yes ya can but i agree itz a pain in the azz

and yes i said the comparisons did not relate in my first post

point is the oil companies suck the life out of the people it is not just opec oil companies are making record profits

if oil inports go up fifteen percent does not mean the price of gas should go up fifteen percent when that happens the profit margin goes up fifteen percent as well

i am not trying to argue with you i am just pointing out that if one wants to they can do without it

go check out the need thread

http://www.justsayhi.com/topic/show/133393

i read this earlier and is part of the reason i posted what i posted here

may much good come to you and yours

when gas was .10 per gallon
wages were around $5.00 per week
@ 20 gallons x .10 = $2.00

gas today $5.00/gal
wages today on avg.$500/wk
20 gal @ $5.00 = $100.oo

just a thought.......

could you check refinery cost as well plz

why??
there has not been a refinery built or even expanded on in the US since 1976........
its not that they havent tried our gov has turned them down.
can you imagine going about your daily activities with equipment dated back to the 70's

OK.

But keep in mind that part of the reason the oil prices are so high is that there aren't enough refineries in this country and the oil companies haven't exactly been building any new ones for the last few decades.

So the exporting country tacks on the cost to refine the oil, which, of course, raises the price.

My equip dates beyond the 70s and works just fine.

So why would our government not allow the oil companies to build new refineries?

hey CB!!!

I guess my point is if they are not allowed to update their equipment with modern tech.
production will never increase and we will always be playing the supply and demand game.
lets face it we live in a cost push economy.

hey CB!!!

I guess my point is if they are not allowed to update their equipment with modern tech.
production will never increase and we will always be playing the supply and demand game.
lets face it we live in a cost push economy.

I agree, mostly. The real problem is that they don't wanna' pay for requisite upgrades for pollution control in order to make updrages or add capcatity. That comes off the bottom line and today's CEOs know that they are one poor quarter away from unemployment.

The underlying issue here is avarice. That - and lobbyists.

I agree, mostly. The real problem is that they don't wanna' pay for requisite upgrades for pollution control in order to make updrages or add capcatity. That comes off the bottom line and today's CEOs know that they are one poor quarter away from unemployment.

The underlying issue here is avarice. That - and lobbyists.

refinary issue is an environmental thing

and a people thing

no one wants it in their area

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and when i said check refinery cost i was referring to the price of refining when it was a higher percentage of the money made compared to the amount of the refining cost of today

sorry i did not explain it further so you would understand what i meant i thought it was a simple thing to understand

after all i quoted the comparison i just wanted the cost of production compared as well

If it's so hard to build new refineries, then how come South Dakota is doing it?

http://gas2.org/2008/06/04/new-south-dakota-oil-refinery-one-step-closer-to-reality/