I've always found it interesting...... a gallon of fuel that propels a 6000# vehicle down the road at 80mph, and requires a journey to the center of the earth to obtain, followed by a complicated refining process, goes up in price a few dimes and it's a national travesty.
Yet no one seems to mind paying $8 a gallon at the same store for water, that some guy just bucketed out of a stream and ran thru a filter.