Vote for your favorite energy drink

[cooleddie74]

And then there's the notorious Four Loko line of alcoholic energy drinks, and the less said about those yucky train wrecks the better.

An energy beverage that's 12, 16 or 24-proof? You do the math.

I'm too lazy to do the math. How many cans would it take to put health or life at risk?

I haven't bothered to crunch those kinds of numbers myself to be frank, but I imagine it can't take too many of an energy drink that strong and containing that much alcohol to do something negative to the user.

Here's a HuffPost article on a teenager dying after drinking some of the stuff along with a couple of other incidents.

 

[MacLeod]

Perhaps those folks living in other countries could tell us about energy drinks that are sold in their countries. I am sure that the Aussie, British, Kiwis and others have energy drinks that we have not heard of.

Already done, I placed a link to the list of energy drinks on wikipedia.

 

[Avon]

i think if there was an option to vote 'yuck' it'd win

 

[Captrek]

All those chemical concoctions are a waste of money. When I need energy, I prefer this:

 

[cooleddie74]

I've known people who drink energy beverages constantly. That kind of continual stimulation can't be good for their health at all, but they've claimed its been a positive thing for them.

To each their own, and all the best. But I wouldn't want to be one of the people pounding their nervous systems with all those sketchy ingredients on a daily basis.