Embodied Energy in a bottle of water

Pablo Paster writes a great look at the lifecycle cost of a bottle of water. This is a great look at how one would roughly look at the energy embodied in our products.

The biggest impact comes from the plastic bottle. Since plastic is made from oil, it requires energy (oil) to produce it. Since our water standards are so high in this country, the quality of these bottled waters is not much better than what comes out of our tap.