What Liquid is Considered Black Gold?
When we think “Black Gold”, crude oil would come up first in our mind. Think again! According to San Francisco Chronicle, printer inks have been found to be one of the most expensive liquids in the world!
“If you were to fill up the tank of your car with Hewlett-Packard ink, it would cost $100,000,” said Gerald Chamales, chairman of Rhinotek Computer Products, a Carson (Los Angeles County) manufacturer of ink and toner cartridges that are compatible with name-brand printers. “If you filled an Olympic-size swimming pool with ink from HP or Lexmark inkjet cartridges, it would cost $5.9 billions, yes with a B.”
It’s one of the great ironies of the digital age. Ink, a substance that has been around some 5,000 years, has become an enormous cash cow for computer companies.
Now we just make the middle east folks to be “ink-addict” then we will be even!
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