Jeeze

[Brando14100]

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/95048

$2 Wow!

8-)

[machineman9]

$2 for the pop and juice I could understand... but blessed H20?

[Brando14100]

$2 for the pop and juice I could understand... but blessed H20?

Is fecal bacteria starting to sound good?

[Mushroom_Farmer]

I have an idea to bottle plain old tap water and call it f

[a1]

Well they need that money.

[Brando14100]

Well they need that money.

True. We complain that they charge money, then when they go out of business due to us not paying, we complain it is their fault.  ;D

[commoner]

...mmm...EasyJet have always done this...........no freebies there, even the fares aren't easy any more and you even pay for checked in hold bags..........and a hefty

[expat]

Standards must be a little different in the US to Europe. In Germany, every two months or so, the water system has to be disinfected from tank to taps and a sample sent to an LBA (Germany FAA/CAA) authorised lab for analysis. As for the drink question, well you don't get a free drink when you go by taxi.

Matt

[Hagar]

Standards must be a little different in the US to Europe.

My thoughts exactly. The regulations on potable water are very strictly enforced in the UK. Not that I've ever considered drinking tap water on an aircraft.

As for the drink question, well you don't get a free drink when you go by taxi.

Taxi journeys rarely last for several hours & passengers can always bring their own drink if necessary. I believe there's still a ban on carrying liquids in airline hand baggage & water is a basic necessity of life. In that case at least the water should be free of charge. If the quality of the aircraft water supply is in doubt then bottled drinking water should be available. I never understood the tradition of serving free alcohol aboard aircraft. I enjoy a free drink as much as anyone else but it almost falls into the same category as smoking.

[expat]

Standards must be a little different in the US to Europe.

My thoughts exactly. The regulations on potable water are very strictly enforced in the UK. Not that I've ever considered drinking tap water on an aircraft.

As for the drink question, well you don't get a free drink when you go by taxi.

I never understood the tradition of serving free alcohol aboard aircraft.

No only that, but the vast majority of us have to drive once we have arrived................Got a bit carried away with myself once on a trans Atlanic flight and had to call the hire car company and tell them my I would be unforeseeable delayed for a couple of hours

Matt

[ThomasKaira]

And most people think only of the spike in gas prices when it comes to oil, this insane profiteering segment of the oil industry is starting to enter the "crisis" stage, as to what I've seen and heard.

$500+ for truckers to fill their tanks, leading to a general reduction of speed in these trucks, which in turn delays shipping.

the magic $4.00 per gallon mark has been reached in the U.S. and almost 5 for diesel.

The farming industry is being torn to shreds by diesel thieves...

And now we have absurd penny-pinching in the airline industry, though I can hardly blame them. I will gladly pay my $2.00 for a can of coca-cola if I know I'm helping to keep them alive.

Let's see how long it takes now for these oligopolistic minds to be lined up and executed for crimes against humanity and conspiring on business pricing, or at least jailed.

In the meantime, you can do your part by pressuring your local government to authorize a switchover to natural gas for transportation and fission for power, let us as humans put a stopper in our insane use of this product.

See, that is the main problem with the oil and fuel industry : there is no competing product, and this is permitting the oil industries to gouge our wallets, providing an alternative means of fuel would have a huge impact.

Alone, curbing our consumption will not do the job, competition is the key.

My two cents.