Price of petrol v/s water

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Sun 26 Nov 2006 17:55
Price of petrol v/s water - hillman
Petrol is not so dear after all. I ate in a self service restaurant today and saw that 330ml bottles of still water are £1.05 each. I could go a long way on that money.

When I was first motoring the cost was 3s 6d a gallon. In 1965 when I landed at Cape town it was 2s 6p. When I got to my destination in Zambia it was 3s 6p again. Shortly after I arrived Rhodesia declared independence and the Zambian government rationed petrol to 4 gallons per month. Yes, motoring was cheap; couldn't go anywhere.
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Sun 26 Nov 2006 19:15
Price of petrol v/s water - Aprilia
Good local restaurant that the wife and I sometimes eat at charges £3.50 for a bottle of mineral water - so petrol's not so bad after all. And they don't have the excuse of saying that 90% of its tax etc...
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Sun 26 Nov 2006 19:16
Price of petrol v/s water - Aprilia
I should add its a 1 litre bottle...
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Sun 26 Nov 2006 19:22
Price of petrol v/s water - Waino
Bottled water is as big a con as SUVs and proof that the marketing men reign supreme - and most people are stupid ;-)
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Sun 26 Nov 2006 20:31
Price of petrol v/s water - Stuartli
Any restaurant, local or otherwise, that charged £3.50 for a bottle of mineral water would never have my custom again.

Mind you I pay £2.06 a pint for Guinness and that's not cheap per gallon...:-)
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Mon 27 Nov 2006 00:29
Price of petrol v/s water - khizman
Well a local buffet place have it @ £2.50/ltr.
The buffet costs £9/head.

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Mon 27 Nov 2006 08:44
Price of petrol v/s water - jc2
When the waiter comes up and asks"sparkling or still" I say "tap".
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Mon 27 Nov 2006 08:55
Price of petrol v/s water - BazzaBear {P}
Any restaurant, local or otherwise, that charged £3.50 for a bottle
of mineral water would never have my custom again.

Of course, you could just not buy water from there.
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Mon 27 Nov 2006 09:50
Price of petrol v/s water - Aprilia
Its an excellent restaurant, but it is expensive, especially for an out of the way rural location. Chateaubriand is about £70. I hate to think what people would pay for mineral water in London. I attended a meeting in a smart London hotel last year and had a cup of tea whilst waiting for it to start and they charged me something like £5 !! Even I was a bit shocked.
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Mon 27 Nov 2006 11:56
Price of petrol v/s water - v0n
Any mineral water priced above 30p a litre is de facto more expensive than litre of unleaded in US... So that's pretty much any bottled water in UK bar the cheapest supermarket large bottled inhouse brands...
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Mon 27 Nov 2006 12:06
Price of petrol v/s water - Stuartli
>>Of course, you could just not buy water from there.>>

Agreed, but presumably everything else is priced in proportion...:-)

I remember feeling somewhat, to say the least, annoyed when I was charged £1.65 for a bottle of water in a pub when getting a round in a few weeks ago.

No, it's not the only round I've bought in recent times..:-)
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