Re: Prices of Gallon

[Bernard Cohen <blc+@PITT.EDU>]

    I think the interesting thing with which to compare the price per 

gallon of gasoline is ordinary distilled water. After all, gasoline is 

distilled also, not to mention that about 75 cents per gallon is paid to 

the supplier country for the privilege of pumping the oil out from 

beneath them with no real cost to them (nothing is paid for the raw 

water used to make distilled water), that the oil has been transported 

thousands of miles before getting to the distillery (not so for water), 

and that a sizable fraction of the gasoline cost is tax (vs no tax for 

distilled water). This comparison puts me in awe of how  mass production 

economics works -- distilled oil is so much cheaper than distilled water.



john grant wrote:



>For those of you who were comparing the price of gasoline a while

>back...

>

>http://www.cockeyed.com/science/gallon/liquid.html

>

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