[Rockhounds] The Bakken Formation - An Interesting Read

[Al Balmer]

On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:11:02 -0700 (PDT), Jim Daly
<sauktown1 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>I'm sure Kreigh is talking about bottled water in 12 oz. or 20 oz. bottles. It's the packaging you're paying for.
>Jim

I don't think so. Gasoline in small packages isn't cheaper, either. In
any case, a local price for bottled water in the 8 oz size (maximum
packaging) is 48 for 7.88. That works out to 2.63/gallon. Keogh must
have been talking about something else.
>
>--- On Fri, 7/18/08, Al Balmer <albalmer at copper.net> wrote:
>
>From: Al Balmer <albalmer at copper.net>
>Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] The Bakken Formation - An Interesting Read
>To: "Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock and gem collectors" <rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com>
>Date: Friday, July 18, 2008, 11:15 PM
>
>On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:09:30 -0400, Kreigh Tomaszewski
><Kreigh at Tomaszewski.net> wrote:
>
>>Gas is still cheaper than bottled water.
>
>? A gallon of bottled water is about 0.60 USD at Wal-mart, 0.25 at any
>number of places if you bring your own container.
>
>> Rising prices will force the 
>>market to find a solution, and force us all to alter our behaviors. As 
>>beer becomes cheaper than gas the rule will become "Drink, don't
>drive".
>
>:-)

-- 
Al Balmer
Sun City, AZ