Relative prices of different liquids
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HP Ink #45: http://www.shopping.hp.com/product/C6650FN%2523140?landing=supplies&category=&family_name=
$63.99/84mL which equals $0.76/mL
Blood: Apparently Red Cross classifies ~500mL of blood as being worth $200, so that comes out to $0.40.
Penicillin: http://www.amazon.com/Long-Lasting-Penicillin-250ml/dp/B00061MQGY. $18.49/250mL which equals about $.07/mL
Vodka (I just picked Grey Goose): http://www.wallywine.com/p-15179-grey-goose-vodka-750ml.aspx. $34.99/750mL is about 4.6 cents/mL.
Red Bull: http://www.amazon.com/Red-Bull-Energy-Drink-8-4-Ounce/dp/B000MTST70. 24 8.4oz cans for $51.15. 201.6 fl oz is about 5962mL and with the math, it comes out to .85 cents/mL.
Water (Aquafina): http://www.cvcoffee.com/pd_aquafina.cfm. $17.99/480oz. Or, 14195 mL resulting in .126cents or $.00126/mL.
Crude Oil: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-gas29-2009dec29,0,5101206.story. I just used $80/barrel and according to http://www.unitconversion.org/volume/milliliters-to-barrels-oil-conversion.html, 1 barrel is 158987mL. This results in $.000503/mL of crude oil.
In conclusion, two and a half cartridges for a barrel of crude?
Inkjets should really be half of what they are currently selling for.
HP inc is created from many substances that when taken apart would be cheaper then oil.
All the items cheaper then the inc are that way since they are basic liquids and not a finished product with many combined liquids in 1.
How much is dizel? And please do not forget that blood is subsidized.
Here's a question (and this may in part explain the higher cost of ink), how much oil is used in the production methods of all the other liquids? Crude oil is the only liquid that is a "resource", all the others are products. When you take into account the chemical sources, the processing, the power consumed during that process, the cost of transport of the raw materials and finished products, the packaging, the resources and power used to produce the equipment used in the processing, you will probably find that the HP ink (including the plastic and curcuitry in the cartridge) is the most intensive and costly to produce. Also, the processes involved probably consume more mLs of oil than mLs of ink that are produced. In other words, in the absence of proper measurements, logic would suggest that the ink would be the least efficient to produce (consuming the most resources in it's production) and therefore we should expect it to be the highest cost per mL.
And there in lies the inflationary power of oil. It is used in the production of practically everything in modern life; either directly or indirectly.
obviously people asking this cant dare think that oil company isn't the only company out there trying to make money. They realize if they learn that the oil companies have a far smaller profit margin...than say bottle water companies, they'd be seen for the douches they really are.
Exxon's profit margin for 2008 is 9.47%
Coca-Cola's for 2008 is double at 18.18%
here's the sources:
http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:XOM
http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:KO
"(...)people asking this cant dare think that oil company isn't the only company out there trying to make money. They realize if they learn that the oil companies have a far smaller profit margin...than say bottle water companies, they'd be seen for the douches they really are."
Is it?! Do oil companies have a far smaller profit margin?! No. Wrong! You completely missed the point! The thing is that oil companies buy very cheap oil and sell it (as gas) at very high prices!! So, the profit margin is huge. The price of oil (gas) to the regular consumer should be shown.
Pleazzzzse give credit to the original article (2006 http://gizmodo.com/212444/hp-ink-costs-more-than-human-blood-booze). If you're not the author the source maters, even if you can easily confirm the data!
Each time you hit print, microscopic droplets of ink are jetted by a superheated vapor bubble through hundreds of nozzles, about one-third the width of a human hair, at roughly 31 miles per hour and up to 36,000 times each second…per nozzle. Ink is also complex – it has to be chemically compatible with every part of the printer, cartridge and paper, and It can take up to 1,000 prototypes over three to five years to perfect a new ink formulation.
When you think about what you are getting out of each cartridge – photos of your family that will last generations or marketing materials that may land that next client – simply put, HP ink is worth it.
We should add to the chart how much hp payed you per word to write that drivel.
And there in lies the inflationary power of oil. It is used in the production of practically everything in modern life; either directly or indirectly.
HP ink are very expensive in Taiwan. We seldomly hear HP's innovation, comparing with Apple, but HP is so big to be beated by no one. Pay it or go away! This is why their share-hoders own stock.
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Human blood, you know, the stuff that actually sustains life is worth far more yet HP, Canon, Brother, etc don't believe so. One should realize that since it's World AIDS Day and healthy human blood should be the most expensive commodity.
Either way, HP printers were the best at some point; they lost that title over a decade ago when technology moved forward.
I hope you weren't being sarcastic.
It costs the blood industry in the US and the industries in more civilized countries like Germany, the UK, France, most of the EU and Canada much more (tens of millions more) to test blood donors for diseases such as Hepatitis variants and HIV than it does for HP to develop ink!
What is the real carbon footprint involved in this?
HP ink are very expensive in Taiwan. We seldomly hear HP's innovation, comparing with Apple, but HP is so big to be beated by no one. Pay it or go away! This is why their share-hoders own stock.
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