" manufacturing, production and transportation of bottled water is 1,100 to 2,000 times as energy intensive as the treatment and distribution of tap water, using enough oil to fuel between 1.2 and 2.1 million cars a year. Then there’s the bottles themselves, which use up about 23,000 tons of plastic a year—the equivalent of between 0.8 million and 1.4 million barrels of oil—80 percent of which are not recycled."       The munfacture, lastic bottlesof water take 1000 to 2000 times as much energy to