The Lair

HP Printer Ink is supposed to be one of the most expensive liquids at $8000 a gallon. Pretty Excel graph found here.

This is more expensive than blood, booze and (of course) oil. Not used in the same quantities, you may argue but the price tag is staggering nonetheless. A slightly older study comparing the price of gas to other liquids was done a while ago too. That study found that nasal drops were actually one of the most expensive liquids around… barring the black gold printer ink, of course. Well, I have a new contender for most expensive liquid not found in a printer cartridge.

Went and grabbed a bottle of anti-allergy eye drops today. Perfectly innocuous bottle, contains a mere 5 milliliters of liquid. Since I’m not too well versed on the conversion between metric and the rods/hogsheads units; I asked Google. 3785 milliliters in a US gallon. I paid £5 for that teensy bottle - basically £1 per milliliter.

dramatic pause, probably unneeded at this stage. Not cheap, is it?

And yet, I’d probably cheerfully pay double that because my allergy symptoms actually went the hell away from (almost) the first dose. When they start using Sodium Chromoglicate to fuel cars though, I think people may start worrying a tad about the prices at the pump.