[mysterio]

Choices like $3 per gallon of gas or $8.00 per gallon for bottled water, $14 per gallon for really cheap beer, $30 for a gallon of crappy whine, or $6 per gallon for your favorite soft drink.

False analogy. You can choose not to buy any of those other fluids and still get to work and heat your house. The same cannot be said of oil.

[Labyrinthos]

False analogy. You can choose not to buy any of those other fluids and still get to work and heat your house. The same cannot be said of oil.

Actually the analogy is pretty good and thanks for helping to make my point: People are complaining about the price of a product, which is deemed a necessity, even though the product is substantially less expensive -- and more costly to produce -- than many non-essential products such as bottled water, beer, wine, and soda.

[spetznaz]

Also people do not buy 26 gallons of any of the above a week (26 gallons of 'crappy wine' at the price he listed of 30 bucks a week comes to 780 dollars a week) , but there are people who fill up their 26 gallon tank with gas a week. That analogy would only make sense if people consumed wine/beer/water at the same rate that they consume gas.

[kenth]

hehe.

I pointed that out to one who posited that same analogy and he went on to tell me that I needed to have my job, grocery store, etc. all within a block of my house like he did; that he only needed about a gallon of gas a week.