Re: Target unit pricing - Here's the real point

In <kSu9k.2594$oY2.2237@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, clams_casino wrote in part:
>Stan Brown wrote:
>
>>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:24:58 -0400 from Shawn Hirn <srhi@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>:
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>>>Besides if frugality is your main concern, with water, your best bet is

>>>to drink tap water and filter it if necessary. The cost of Brita water 
>>>filter (and a few filters) is a lot cheaper then bottled water on a per

>>>gallon basis.
>>
>>Precisely! Get a reusable water bottle (about $1 at Wal-mart) and 
>>fill it with tap water or filtered water if necessary. It'a much 
>>cheaper, it's better for the environment, and it reduces our 
>>dependence on foreign oil as well as our garbage problem.
>>
>>(I don't remember the figures, but the billions of one-use plastic 
>>water bottles take a horrendous amount of oil to manufacture.
>
>US production is about 5B lbs/yr for bottles, but the paraxylene used in 
>its production is a minor byproduct in the cracking of oil.   If all the 
>paraxylene was eliminated, there would be an insignificant reduction in 
>the US consumption of oil.

  5B pounds per year sounds to me like about .03% of worldwide consumption

of all fossil fuels.
  Keep in mind that most plastic beverage bottles are made of polyethylene

terephthalate or polyethylene, and ethylene is obtained more from natural 
gas - something else that USA im****ts and is experiencing 
hyperinflationary price increases of.

 - Don Klipstein (don@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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