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Think a gallon of gas is expensive?; Just for fun
Topic Started: Nov 21 2005, 10:02 PM (349 Views)
richndanapoint
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Not sure if this has been posted before so here it goes :angel:

Diet Snapple
16 oz $1.29 ........ $10.32 per gallon

Lipton Ice Tea
16 oz $1.19 ...........$9.52 per gallon

Gatorade
20 oz $1.59 ...... $10.17 per gallon

Ocean Spray
16 oz $1.25 . $10.00 per gallon

Brake Fluid
12 oz $3.15 . $33.60 per gallon

Vick's Nyquil
6 oz $8.35 .... $178.13 per gallon

Pepto Bismol
4 oz $3.85 ..... $123.20 per gallon

Whiteout
7 oz $1.39 ......... .. $25.42 per gallon

Scope
1.5 oz $0.99 .....$84.48 per gallon

And this is the REAL KICKER...

Evian water
9 oz $1.49..........$21.19 per gallon!
$21.19 for WATER - and the buyers don't even know the source.
(Evian spelled backwards is Naive.)
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Dennis
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That's different though.

You can do without Diet Snapple. You have to have gasoline.

You can drink tap water. You have to have gasoline.

There's really no comparison. It's apples and oranges. ;)
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richndanapoint
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Dennis
November 21, 2005 07:07 PM
That's different though.

You can do without Diet Snapple. You have to have gasoline.

You can drink tap water. You have to have gasoline.

There's really no comparison. It's apples and oranges. ;)

I think Orange juice is cheaper but I could be wrong :P
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Um.. you don't have to have gasoline.
It's a stupid, outdated technology we choose to continue to use because we're stupid as well.
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EclipseWebJS
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We could start building our own electric vehicles that are easy to maintain.


Anyway, I hear that Syriana is due to open at select movie theaters today. A movie based about the unsettling future that's ahead...
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Eh... from that list I ken what Ice tea and brake fluid are oh and evian
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PhranK
November 22, 2005 03:03 AM
Um.. you don't have to have gasoline.
It's a stupid, outdated technology we choose to continue to use because we're stupid as well.

Stupidity is the answer for everything Phrank... :rolleyes:

There are other sources but they haven't been perfected. Such as hydrogen power, but get in an accident and the whole block explodes...well not really. :P But it isn't safe as of yet.

Anyway, yeah it's hard to compare the both of these.
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That is weard that gas is not as expensive compaired to other items. If somone says that gas is expensive then just show them this :) Other products are way more expensive.
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The difference here is how many gallons of the products you buy. You don't go around buying 20+ gallons of water at a time, do you? However, you do for gas. $3.00 per gallon of gas is EXTREMELY expensive, simply because of the fact that you don't just buy one gallon of it. You buy many, many gallons of gasoline.
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Aaron
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A blast from the past.

Besides all that stuff should/normaly last longer then the gas in your car :P
And Prank, We do need gas right now untill a better choice is found, if we shiped every thing by boat with sails/coal, horse and waggen and all that good stuff prices would sky rocket since it would take longer to ship the goods.
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Lancebreaker
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We should boycott gasoline and all start riding bikes! :o Just think of it, then the entire nation would be a healthy one. Not an overweight person to be found. ;)
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November 23, 2005 06:24 PM
We should boycott gasoline and all start riding bikes! :o Just think of it, then the entire nation would be a healthy one. Not an overweight person to be found. ;)

When I am on campus, I ride my bike.

However, when I am back home I have to drive. My doctor's office is 45 minutes away in my truck. I'm not biking that far. :no:

Perhaps Phrank was referring to alternative fuel sources such as ethanol from corn?
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Ethanol!!

I live in a state that manufactures this bio-fuel...

But how is it possible to burn ethanol with little or no mod's to your car?
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I was referring to our entire culture.
And yes, stupidity is the answer/reason for almost everything, because it's so overwhelmingly pervasive.
Do we need to use ethanol or hydrogen or biodiesel or other things instead of gas?
No, though it would help considerably, in the short term.
We need to stop being selfish, uncaring, and/or blissfully unaware fools.
We've allowed our entire society to be designed around short-sighted, inefficient, disturbingly destructive, monopolistic, and downright ugly technology and methodology.

Buying locally grown or manufactured products and living near where you work are pretty easy ways to put a dent in the problem, as is not buying a bunch of crap you don't actually need, but the problem is enormous and ingrained, and not caring what effect your actions have is more or less the American Way(tm).
We need to stop wasting money on alternative fuels for automobiles and start spending it on alternatives to automobiles, and stop wasting however many tens or hundreds of billions of dollars every year on building and maintaining highways and the like and start spending that on alternatives as well.
And of course, we need to cut population growth by about 1000%, but nobody wants to bother with that or admit we're being stupid about it either.

As it is, essentially nothing is being done to remedy the actual problems, and really only a handful of people even acknowledge them, much less address them publicly.
Can we just quit using gas or maintaining roads tomorrow?
Obviously not, since we've stupidly become pretty much dependent on them.
But we need to admit that it all has to stop as soon as possible and put our efforts towards that goal, rather than distracting ourselves with solutions that only partially solve a tiny fraction of the overall problem.

We need leaders with the brains and balls to not only understand and admit that the real problems exist, but who are also willing to do something meaningful about it.
We had one that said "..this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth." when we'd just barely started our space program and it seemed absurd, if not impossible.
I'd like to see one that will say, with clarity of intent and purpose, that our goal is to rid ourselves of the automobile and the support system that goes along with it, and give a reasonable timeframe for that goal to be reached.

Of course, the public and corporations need to be convinced it can and should be done, which wasn't such a problem with the mission to the Moon and all that, and will probably be more like the struggle against slavery, or against overpopulation, for that matter, but if we stop being stupid, a lot can happen that seems impossible with our "Well, that's the way it is and good luck changing it" attitude.
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i never really though of it that way hah
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