Posted on 02/19/2020 3:09:31 AM PST by sodpoodle
Other than the fact that all are fluids, these items have nothing in common. As long as the comparison is being made, someone should factor in the cost of any resulting mechanical damage and cost of draining the fuel system if you filled your car's fuel tank with any these other items. They are not interchangeable goods, so what's the point of comparing their prices.
How about essential oils per gallon!
Poor thing. That has got to be one of the ugliest 16 year-old children I have ever seen. Good thing she is that ugly though, it will make it harder for her to attract a mate.
Sheesh! What an ugly child.
We do here in Michigan. I think the deposit law went into effect back in the 70's. Prior to that, parks and roads were littered with tossed out cans and bottles, now they're picked up by resourceful people.
At the park where I play softball in the morning during the summer, the dugouts are littered with the plastic water bottles from the games the night before while the beer and pop cans have been picked up and fished out of the garbage cans. There's an old retiree we often see riding thru the park on his bicycle checking out all the garbage barrels, picking out the cans and bottles.
Every ball diamond has garbage barrels but the people are too lazy to walk over the 10 feet and throw their plastic bottles away....
My parents had a summer cottage on the east side of Michigan and that well water was the best tasting in the world.
I tried one of those where I used to live. It improved things, but store-bought water was still far better. I used to buy the gallon jugs of water for less than $1 and use them for cooking.
You make a good point. Crude is the thing.
And being energy independent certainly
helps!
Aggie or Horn fan?
LSU fan here.
Very true.
Biggest return is on the soda and coffee machines.
Which is why many gas stations have such good coffee. The employees are told to make the cleaning and stocking of the coffee machine a priority. Gas is the same everywhere, good coffee will bring in the customers.
“I ask, how much would you pay to NOT have to walk 20 miles?
$3.00? For sure.
$5.00? For sure, without changing driving habits.
$8.00? For sure, begin doing better planning to minimize gas.
$10.00? For sure, be very careful about driving.
$20.00? Now we are at a buck-a-mile. I’d still buy it.”
Exactly. One of the reasons I’m so sensitive about toll roads is that the smarter people realize that the VALUE of driving exceeds the cost of driving, probably 10-fold. In other words, if people were forced to spend, say, 50 cents per miles in tolls, most people would bitch, but would spend it, given the alternatives. Right now, people pay about 2 cents a mile in gas taxes - increase it to 3 to 4 cents and only send the money going to roads, and that pretty much covers all of the costs of having roads and expanding them as necessary. If government, or private companies, are able to raise taxes/tolls above 4 cents/mile, then EVERYTHING they collect from that extra money goes into their pockets, and that can easily total $10k per year for many drivers...a new, huge, tax.
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