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To: marktwain

Math impairment alert!

A barrel is 42 gallons.


10 posted on 02/27/2011 4:05:39 PM PST by pingman (Price is what you pay, value is what you get.)
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“Math impairment alert!”

Oil is now at about $100 a barrel and gasoline is about $3.50 a gallon. Lower the price to $30 a barrel and the price of gasoline drops to about .30 of what it is now. .30 X $3.50 = $1.05 per gallon.

So, show me your math.


23 posted on 02/27/2011 4:40:15 PM PST by marktwain
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To: pingman

I was looking at that, too. Only 15,000 gallons per acre annually isn’t much, just a little over 356 barrels per acre.

That will use up a lot of territory to produce scant gasoline.


24 posted on 02/27/2011 4:47:35 PM PST by SatinDoll (NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR PRESIDENT!)
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To: pingman

“A barrel is 42 gallons.”

This is true. However, the “drums” of chemicals I get at the water company are still 55 gallons.


28 posted on 02/27/2011 5:07:15 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: pingman

I should have said $30 a barrel oil is equivalent to a bit over $1 a gallon gasoline. There is quite a bit of processing, transportation and distribution to get the gasoline out of the oil and into your tank. Still, I think the thought was clear because the article referenced $30 a barrel oil.


35 posted on 02/27/2011 5:31:17 PM PST by marktwain
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To: pingman
Math impairment alert!
A barrel is 42 gallons.

General knowledge impairment alert!
a barrel of oil IS NOT a barrel of gasoline.

57 posted on 02/27/2011 10:18:25 PM PST by Publius6961 ("In 1964 the War on Poverty Began --- Poverty won.")
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