What can I say, I"m high maintenance.

 

Here's a thought - the faucet. :ylsuper:

You don't have a source of water other than buying expensive bottled water?

 

:thumb: They sell jugs of water at wal-mart for like $0.69.

No doubt people will always complain about something.

 

 

With gas prices going up... so are groceries. My grocery bill per week has almost doubled of what I paid this time last year....:irked:

Here's a thought - the faucet. :ylsuper:

 

 

My first thought.

With gas prices going up... so are groceries. My grocery bill per week has almost doubled of what I paid this time last year....:irked:

 

This is the story of my life. When you sell food for a living, it can sometimes be a scary time.

Should they not be complaining? You can get free water from a water fountain, or pay practically nothing for tap water. But most of us HAVE to pay these ridiculous prices for gas because we have jobs.

 

In order to get to my job I have to drive to the other side of town (thank God I got a job that's only a couple miles away).

 

Some people have to drive to and from school, it all adds up and is starting to effect peoples' lives. Some people can no longer afford to go on trips, some people are having to get jobs closer to home, prices for pretty much everything are going up because of the cost to transport the goods.

 

I have to drive from Richmond to Versailles about twice a week and it's starting to eat at my wallet.

 

Comparing gas to bottled water is nowhere near the same. If need be, you can not be so "high-maintenance" and drink tap water, but currently we have no other ways to get gasoline and it's hurting a lot of people.

 

Which makes it all the more ridiculous that people would pay that much for water, or for that matter, that people would pay anything for water. If you want to even out your gas bill a little, then quit paying for water. And you're right, water and gas isn't the same. $1.20 for a 16 oz bottle of water, $4.00 for a gallon of gas. Quit buying water. And no, what good does complaining do.

Everybody is jumping on hoopboy, but his argument merits attention. We are in a gas crisis because of our misplaced values, the same misplaced values that drive us to voluntarily pay what we pay for bottled water. Think about it in the abstract. If you cut out buying bottled water, would you have the available money to pay for the increased cost of gas at the pump? Or would you blow it on some other cash misfit?

 

I read somewhere that with the money that Americans spent on bottled water last year, we could pay for the infrastructure to irrigate 40% of non-irrigated Africa.

 

We are in a gas cris because Americans choose to allow themselves to be suckled in reliance upon gasoline as a fuel source, choose to utilize implements that drive cosumption of that fuel source up, and choose (through whom they elect to go to Washington) to ignore the possibility of alternative energy technologies like additional drilling or nuclear power, and instead suckle at the tit of the Middle East.

 

There is a connection between bottled water and gas prices - and it is the bizarre, backwards choices of all Americans, including you and I.

 

You all have asked for this problem for years, and now you have it. Stop whining. If you are mad and me and need to cool down, go to your nearest C-store and buy yourself an Evian.

My first thought.

 

Sometimes water from a faucet does not taste so good.

Everybody is jumping on hoopboy, but his argument merits attention. We are in a gas crisis because of our misplaced values, the same misplaced values that drive us to voluntarily pay what we pay for bottled water. Think about it in the abstract. If you cut out buying bottled water, would you have the available money to pay for the increased cost of gas at the pump? Or would you blow it on some other cash misfit?

 

I read somewhere that with the money that Americans spent on bottled water last year, we could pay for the infrastructure to irrigate 40% of non-irrigated Africa.

 

We are in a gas cris because Americans choose to allow themselves to be suckled in reliance upon gasoline as a fuel source, choose to utilize implements that drive cosumption of that fuel source up, and choose (through whom they elect to go to Washington) to ignore the possibility of alternative energy technologies like additional drilling or nuclear power, and instead suckle at the tit of the Middle East.

 

There is a connection between bottled water and gas prices - and it is the bizarre, backwards choices of all Americans, including you and I.

 

You all have asked for this problem for years, and now you have it. Stop whining. If you are mad and me and need to cool down, go to your nearest C-store and buy yourself an Evian.

You are right, but hoopboy's initial comment was on the fact that there is no outrage over bottled water prices. The difference is that there are alternative to bottled water, which is why there is no outcry.

 

But both of you are dead on about misplaced values.

The last few weeks I have checking some transportation to replace the one in my wife's accident and I visited a Dodge dealership and drove a few but they didn't mention the gas thing. Right now the Dodge is leading over the others. That was before the gas thing.

Very smart on Dodges part.

 

You have to use a credit card, then they will bill you. So if you pay $4.50 for gas, they will bill you for just $2.99.

 

The catch is if you don't pay off every month, interest is added. Considering that a little over 50% of Americans end up defaulting on CC's they will probably actually make money of this promotion.

You are right, but hoopboy's initial comment was on the fact that there is no outrage over bottled water prices. The difference is that there are alternative to bottled water, which is why there is no outcry.

 

But both of you are dead on about misplaced values.

 

And the other sources of water other than bottled was my point completely. People gripe over gas, yet don't say anything about paying $1.20 for a bottle of water that they could get for free out of the faucet.

People aren't willing to cut the discretionary spending in order to have more for their necessary spending.

And the other sources of water other than bottled was my point completely. People gripe over gas, yet don't say anything about paying $1.20 for a bottle of water that they could get for free out of the faucet.

 

You have an "interesting" way of making your points, Hoopboy.:thumb:

With gas prices going up... so are groceries. My grocery bill per week has almost doubled of what I paid this time last year....:irked:

So has ours...

And the diesel fuel is killing us too.