Forget Crude Oil Prices. How About HP Black Ink #45?

By Paul Kedrosky · November 4, 2006 · ·

From a post at Gizmodo, the price per mL of various fluids — with crude oil at the bottom, and HP black ink #45 for printer cartridges waaaaay out in front:

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Comments

  1. billo says:
    November 5, 2006 at 4:18 am

    1986 Chateau Mouton Rothschild: $0.79/ml
    1929 Richeourg DRC: $10.24/ml :-)

  2. vinnie mirchandani says:
    November 5, 2006 at 6:34 am

    I wrote a blog called Eau de HP last year – BusinessWeek had a graphic which showed per ounce HP ink was more expensive than Chanel no. 5 and Dom Perignon 1990…

  3. Cem Sertoglu says:
    November 5, 2006 at 12:21 pm

    How about this: Visine $1.18/ml
    http://www.walgreens.com/store/product.jsp?id=prod1426810&CATID=100216&skuid=sku1426800&V=G&ec=frgl_616621

  4. priceperpound says:
    November 5, 2006 at 3:55 pm

    I have heard of a somewhat similar analysis comparing the price per ounze one pays for popcorn (without the butter) at a movie theatre being higher than the price of an ounze of gold

  5. mike simonsen says:
    November 6, 2006 at 9:40 am

    God, that’s beautiful.
    (as a side note, I’m pretty sure if my car took Red Bull it’d get about 1000 mpg.)

  6. Lee D says:
    November 8, 2006 at 6:09 am

    So, the new slogan must be
    NO BLOOD FOR INK!

  7. z.korpi says:
    November 9, 2006 at 8:54 pm

    I liked that chart. It really puts some perspective on the outrageous price of ink! :) Now, I would be interested in seeing a similar chart that puts some perspective on the consumption of those items!