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Gas prices are heading up, up, up, and as every media outlet in town has noted this week, Chicago's prices are topping the nation's, averaging over $4 per gallon. But that got us wondering: How much do gallons of other liquids cost?
Milk $3 (on average)
IBC Root Beer $5.33 ($3 for a six-pack of 12 oz bottles)
Miller High Life $5.33 ($15 for a 30-pack of 12 oz cans)
Ketchup $8 ($2 for 32 oz)
Hydrogen Peroxide: $10.32 ($1.29 for 16oz)
Coffee $17.44 ($2.18 for a 16oz iced coffee from Lovely)
Paint $24.98 (No conversion necessary! It comes in gallons.)
NyQuil: $93 ($7.29 for 10oz)
Super Glue $365 ($11.99 for a six-pack of .7oz tubes)
Polo by Ralph Lauren $1984 ($62 for 4oz)
Chanel Nail Polish $5760 ($18 for .4 oz)
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thanks for the perspective. so when are they coming out with milk-based engines?
The nail polish thing is really illuminating. How do they get away with that? I mean, it's nail polish. I can't be that hard to make. Not like, say, milk which takes raising a cow, milking, pasteurizing, homgenizing, chilling and distrubiting.
crazy what we value in our society.
Goose Island 312: $49.96 on sale at Sam's.
This article is terrific btw.
Wow, I liked this post too. A lot. Thank you!
How much does a gallon of Slayer tapes cost?
20 oz Dasani is $1.25.
That's $8.00/gallon! And there is a virtually free alternative.
Yay, I'm glad you guys liked it.
how much for a gallon of crack, or crystal meth thats the conversion that really matters.
I've heard ink jet ink is one of the most expensive substances per gallon.
Unfortunately, my sub-par math skills do not allow me to make an accurate comparison here...
$15 for 30 cans of High Life? I have GOT to start using PeaPod.
magikist is right!
I figured my ol' Canon inkjet is about $1.50 per mL. There are 3,785.41178 ml in a gallon so that means that ink jet ink cost ~$5700/gallon!
(magikist: A tip on performing conversions. Just use google. If you google "1 gallon to ml" it just tells you the answer.)
considering gasoline costs billions to extract from the ground/ocean floor, refine and transport i'm surprised it doesn't cost $20 a gallon..
Officer: Have you been drinking.
Me: No sir, why, was I swerving?
O: I can smell you and the stench of alcohol for a mile behind your car.
M: No, no, my car runs on High Life, its cheaper than gas.
O: Step out of the car.
There actually is a way to make your car run on beer:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/technology/27proto.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Get up on that, Chicago!
Woops. The link is here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/technology/27proto.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
I don't know if anyone say the story on CBS2 but 79 cents per gallon of gas in Chicago goes to various different taxes. So if gas is 4.20-.80=3.40 with no tax and oil companies are making about a 10% margin (they make all of their money on volume not margin) that means that the oil companies make 34 cents on a gallon of gas while the government collectively takes more than twice that amount.
Also everyone that bitches that oil companies make too much money, look who owns oil companies. The public does. Over 60 million households have oil stock in their pension fund, IRA, 401K or some other form of investment.
Dick Durbin and these other nutty politicians are just pandering to the lowest common denominator. They are trying to prey on peoples ignorance and frustration.
Yeah, well... did you know that Tic-Tacs are $174 per gallon?!? No joke.
($.85 for every .625 oz.)
Ok, so $1,984 per gallon of RL?? I mean c'mon, pick your shots. I will vouch for Ralph Lauren. My mother bought a white Polo button-down in 1973 and gave it to me in 1995... I wore it EVERY week for FOUR years during my Catholic school days, and have been wearing it *since* then until it's death a few weeks ago... so it lasted 35 years, and my mother paid $22 for it NEW. Therefore, uses per wear are equivalent to pennies, which means that the $22 my mother paid for RL were WELL SPENT.
But to conclude - I will not maintain any fond memories of these gas prices; I shall walk more often, which will be good for my ass; Vow not to cry as I no longer have my Polo button-down to dry my tears; and... yeah, anyone have any kleenex as I pull-up to the Shell station??
You lucky sons of a gun, imagine you were in Portugal, where 1 gallon of : milk 3,52$, beer 7,33 $, gas 9,58 $ ... Wonderful when the average annual income is about 22800 USD, compared with yours 31200 USD and many have to survive with about 9800 USD a year or less. Unfortunately, I'm not a friend of king Abdulah, I own no oil company shares, although I love hydrogen.
I always get a kick out of such lists. Just goes to show how unthinking and absolutely stupid we gas guzzling, oil worshipping Americans can be. I'd bet the farm that if it were announced that there's a gas shortage, drivers would drop everything and beat a path to the nearest gas station to wait in a miles long line to buy as much gas as they could for any - ANY - price. Kid need to be picked up from daycare? Nothing at all in the house to eat? Pashaw! Piddlin' things! What more important, my kid or food or gas? No contest. "I'll take as much gas as you have for any price you ask. Just $50 a gallon? Filler up while I go get my 200 gas cans."
WHAT A PIECE OF WORK IS MAN!!
Sinep and Getreal:
We, the taxpayers, already pay the oil companies through the US government billions each year. While each year oil company profits have been breaking records, and this year is looking to be no exception. The prices are going up because they can. People are willing to pay whatever price named. True, the guy hauling a rig across the country has no choice, but what did anyone expect when the car/oil companies bought up all the rail-lines and then the government graciously paved highways over them?