How dare you!
The way the empty bottles are just discarded on the ground, there should be a deposit on them like beer cans and bottles. At least that would give the homeless a source of income.....
Great post!
Good stuff!
I enjoy perspective!
(And irony - I love irony)
I’ll add one:
In 1979, per capita income was $7,000, gasoline was $1.20 a gallon, and a typical car would get 15 MPG (maybe). Drive 15,000 miles and you needed 1000 gallons, which cost $1200. So 17% of ones income was needed for gasoline...in that scenario.
Now fast forward to 2016 and per capita income is $33,000. Gasoline costs $2.50 per gallon and a typical car gets 25 MPG. So driving 15,000 miles costs $1500. But with our much higher income, gasoline is now only 4.5% of income.
HUGE DIFFERENCE...so stop bitching about gasoline prices, please.
(general comment, not you, Poodle)
That’s why gas stations have snack shops. That’s where the real money is.
Adjusted for inflation thats $2.65 per gallon in todays dollars
Try calculating the price per pound of potatoes in a bag of potatoe chips.
How dare you!
A single shot of Remy Martin Louis XIII Cognac, retail is at least $200 which makes it $25,600 a gallon.
My point: Lipton Iced Tea - $9.52/gallon, when in a 16 oz. bottle. But not when you buy an actual gallon. Then its only $2.99/gallon.
Same goes for most of the other items on the list...
$21.19 for a gallon of WATER!!"
Currently, our local Food Lion has Deer Park 24 Pack, 1/2 Liter bottles on sale at 3/$10. Math sucks but I think that comes out to about $1/gallon? Where does this fool shop, Beverly Hills?
years ago a lib in the office was ranting and raving about evil ‘big-oil’.....all the usual talking points...blah, blah, blah. She had a cup of starbux in her hand. when I pointed out she happily paid $12 per gallon (at that time) every morning for coffee and asked why $3 (or whatever at the time) for a gallon of gas was a problem and what she thought of ‘big-coffee’, all she could do was stutter
At around $9/gallon, beer is a good deal.
Sure... but gas would be a lot more money if it wasn’t for the fact that Alberta is landlocked and forced to sell oil at way less than world market prices. Talk about being over a barrel.... https://business.financialpost.com/opinion/vivian-krause-rachel-notley-the-rockefellers-and-albertas-landlocked-oil
I do not buy 20 gallons of Diet Snapple.
Gas prices are too high in California. I still drive on the same broken roads year after year while reading about the fat pensions the gov’t workers get.
https://www.gasbuddy.com
Comparing gasoline to beverage pricing is not realistic. A good portion of the cost in beverages is the packaging. Imagine if every gallon of gasoline was sold in a plastic 2-1/2 gallon container like you use for your lawnmower? Then what would gasoline cost to sell & distribute (no more moving it in tanker trucks).
But a gallon could last you all week....
Someone calculated the cost of the ink; you won't believe it but it's true: $5,200 a gal. $5,200 A GALLON!!!
Yes, but this is what happens when you choose a $50 printer over a business model, esp the HP Officejet Pro 8610 8615 8620 8625 8630 (buy used?)
4 PK HP 950XL 951XL Ink Cartridges for HP Officejet Pro 8610 8615 8620 8625 8630 at $10.95 (houseoftoners)
And the black holds 53 millimeters of ink - the most I know of.
Or go to Europe. That is an eye opener.
I’m curious, which of these items do we use gallons a day?