Okay, okay, I know I can be cheap, and I can be green, but I think this is a problem.
I’m in my nice hotel room, where they provide complimentary regular and decaf coffee, as well as two different types of tea bags. And then there are two 1-liter sized bottles of Aquafina water.
Just below the “Refresh” exhortation on the bottle label, the liter bottle of Aquafina is $5. As the bottle itself says, “Aquafina originates from public water sources and is then purified through a rigorous, seven-step process called HydRO-7.” So Aquafina starts in a public water system (like Denver’s), is allegedly purified some more, and then bottled in plastic, and sold for $5 in a hotel room.
The tap water, of course, is free.
By the way, if the hotel is selling a liter of Aquafina for $5, that’s a quart for $4.76, or $19.04 per gallon. That’s also 527% more expensive than a gallon of gasoline in my hometown of Kennett Square.
As it says on the water glass’ coaster, “Enjoy Your Drink.”
The gasoline and Aquafina bottle are actually related, since they’re both made from petroleum products. That must help with the “rigorous, 7-step HydRO-7 purification process.”
