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” I would have needed to charge $10 per bottle to make it worth my while.”

If that’s what you figured, then driving from 1200 miles away was too far for the amount that you could haul.

[Alberta's Child]

I wasn’t looking to make a fortune but I needed to cover the cost of the trip and the time.

Let’s look at this using round numbers:

2400 miles x $0.60 per mile (a bit higher than the IRS rate) is $1,440. Let’s call it $1,500 in operating expenses for the vehicle.

I figured I could do the trip each way in a day and a half. Add a whole day at the disaster scene and that’s four days. Let’s make it five days for the sake of the discussion. At $200/day in personal expenses (this is very high; I wouldn’t have spent more than one night in a hotel) that’s another $1,000.

If I sold the water for $10 per bottle that would have been $10,000 in revenue. A net of $7,500 isn’t a bad return for a week of disruption, is it?