With everybody hot and bothered about the record price of gasoline, it's time once again to put a little perspecitve into the equation. Rob Cockerman at Cockeyed.com ranks 47 products from the least-expensive (tap water, $0 per gallon) to the most-expensive (scorpion venom, $38,858,507.46) - and a bunch of stuff in between. Gasoline, as always, remains a relative bargain, so let's stop the bellyaching, OK?
ITEM   PRICE PER GALLON
tap water $0.00 
Folgers Coffee $0.70 
Kool-Aid $1.85 
lowfat milk $3.79 
Coffee Mate $5.54 
Evian spring water $6.40 
Budweiser $8.88 
Hershey's chocolate syrup $13.23 
Kikkoman soy sauce $15.33 
Jamba Juice $21.82 
Red Bull energy drink $30.69 
Absolut Vodka $58.26 
grapeseed oil $69.47 
fresh squeezed wheat grass $124.80 
Penicillin $301.49 
human blood (processing fee) $1,514.79 
insulin (Humulin L) $9,411.76 
Chanel No.5 perfume $25,600.00 



Mark Lacter created the LA Biz Observed blog in 2006. He posted 
until the day before his death on Nov. 13, 2013.