Re: NNG: The thing that amazes me is ... Beer vs Gasoline 
| February 25, 2012 08:53PM |
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george pearce Wrote:
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> Since Mike has given us something to chew on,
> here's another one. What does the price of milk
> scale out to be per gallon? How about beer?
> Many people go through almost as much of those
> products per day as they do gasoline.
HHhhhhmmmmmmmm ...
As former H.S. math & chem "perfessor" - and an aficionado of beer (especially the ones named after me, such as OLD Peculiar, ARROGANT Bastard and OLD Curmudgeon), if behooves me to address your assertions:
On 02/11, the day after arriving home from Virginia City, I filled my car's gas tank - IIRC about 12 gallons @ 3.75 = $45.00, and re-filled the tank Friday 02/24 before heading out to Cajon Pass & Victorville to scout photo locations for #3751's rumored trip east in May - IIRC again about 12 gallons @ $4.00 = $48.00, so the average for a week of driving => $45 + $48 / two fills => $46.50 / two weeks => $23.25 per week or about $3.32 per day. Arrogant Bastard Ale is about $4.00 / 22-ounce bottle at Trader Joe's, and I probably average between one and two per day (one with lunch and sometimes one with or after dinner), which works out to about 32 ounces per day or two gallons per week. So it looks like on a per-gallon basis I buy more gas than beer by about 3:1, but I spend about twice as much on beer as I do on gasoline. OTOH, I'm retired so I don't have to drive (or even walk) to work; you young whipper-snappers probably drive at least three or four times as many miles per week as I do, and if you buy cheap fizzy yellow beer* I'm pretty sure you spend more for gasoline than for beer.
- El Curmudgeono Borracho de la Costa del Oro
p.s. How many of you noticed the article "How Wall Street Is Raising the Price of Gas" [abcnews.go.com] on the page that Mike referenced? One thing Herman Cain said during his brief run for the presidency made a lot of sense to me - a Nine-Percent Federal Sales Tax. But I would apply it only to purchases of Stocks, Bonds, Commodities Futures and a few other things to cut down - WAY down - on rampant speculation.
* According to the label on Arrogant Bastard bottles, "Fizzy Yellow Beer is for Wussies". You get what you pay for ...
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/26/2012 11:17AM by Russo Loco.
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> Since Mike has given us something to chew on,
> here's another one. What does the price of milk
> scale out to be per gallon? How about beer?
> Many people go through almost as much of those
> products per day as they do gasoline.
HHhhhhmmmmmmmm ...
As former H.S. math & chem "perfessor" - and an aficionado of beer (especially the ones named after me, such as OLD Peculiar, ARROGANT Bastard and OLD Curmudgeon), if behooves me to address your assertions:
On 02/11, the day after arriving home from Virginia City, I filled my car's gas tank - IIRC about 12 gallons @ 3.75 = $45.00, and re-filled the tank Friday 02/24 before heading out to Cajon Pass & Victorville to scout photo locations for #3751's rumored trip east in May - IIRC again about 12 gallons @ $4.00 = $48.00, so the average for a week of driving => $45 + $48 / two fills => $46.50 / two weeks => $23.25 per week or about $3.32 per day. Arrogant Bastard Ale is about $4.00 / 22-ounce bottle at Trader Joe's, and I probably average between one and two per day (one with lunch and sometimes one with or after dinner), which works out to about 32 ounces per day or two gallons per week. So it looks like on a per-gallon basis I buy more gas than beer by about 3:1, but I spend about twice as much on beer as I do on gasoline. OTOH, I'm retired so I don't have to drive (or even walk) to work; you young whipper-snappers probably drive at least three or four times as many miles per week as I do, and if you buy cheap fizzy yellow beer* I'm pretty sure you spend more for gasoline than for beer.
- El Curmudgeono Borracho de la Costa del Oro
p.s. How many of you noticed the article "How Wall Street Is Raising the Price of Gas" [abcnews.go.com] on the page that Mike referenced? One thing Herman Cain said during his brief run for the presidency made a lot of sense to me - a Nine-Percent Federal Sales Tax. But I would apply it only to purchases of Stocks, Bonds, Commodities Futures and a few other things to cut down - WAY down - on rampant speculation.
* According to the label on Arrogant Bastard bottles, "Fizzy Yellow Beer is for Wussies". You get what you pay for ...
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/26/2012 11:17AM by Russo Loco.
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