Gasoline - Cheap at $4.00 per gallon
My Uncle Walter, now retired in Florida, sends me about 50 Internet jokes a month (kinda makes you remember 1997, no?) Anyway, this one was the first in a very long time to actually make me smile. Not so much a joke, just a little perspective:
| Item | Current Cost per Gallon |
| Gasoline | $4.00 |
| Lipton Iced Tea | $9.52 |
| Ocean Spray | $10.00 |
| Gatorade | $10.17 |
| Diet Snapple | $10.32 |
| Water | $21.19 |
| Whiteout | $25.42 |
| Brake Fluid | $33.60 |
| Scope Mouthwash | $84.48 |
| Pepto Bismol | $123.20 |
| NyQuil | $178.13 |
| Printer Ink | $5,200 |
Let's hope the first alternative fuel car doesn't run on printer ink, huh?
posted by Brian at
2:02 AM
2 Comments:
I'm not clear what perspective I'm supposed to get out of this. Shouldn't we also be considering how many gallons of each product the average person uses? And how the prices of everything else will rise, since they all require fuel as part of the production and distribution costs?
Or, for a different perspective, should we just look back at http://www.familygreenberg.com/2006/11/local-economic-indicators.html ?
I guess the real question is: why do you want to minimize the importance of the gasoline prices?
By
Michael Weinmayr, at 9:56 AM, May 11, 2008
Not minimizing, just poking some ironic fun.
Nice job quoting me back to me, though! That's a first, I believe (unless Porten beat you to it...)
By
Brian, at 11:29 AM, May 11, 2008
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