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This week's perspective
Here we are the winter of 2001 and high gas prices is the daily topic. In our area, regular gas is over $1.15 a gallon. Out of Cyber Space comes an E-mail that dares to compare gasoline prices to other products we use daily and think, not much about. So let’s take a look.
Diet Snapple - 16 oz for $1.29 = $10.32 a gallon Lipton Iced Tea - 16 oz for $1.19 = $9.52 a gallon Gatorade - 20 oz for $1.59 = $10.17 a gallon Ocean Spray - 16 oz for $1.25 = $10.00 a gallon STP brake fluid - 12 oz for $3.15 = $33.60 a gallon Vick's Nyquil - 6 oz for $8.35 = $178.13 a gallon Scope - 1.5 oz for $0.99 = $84.84 a gallon White Out - .7 oz for $1.39 = $254.17 a gallon Evian water - 9 oz for $1.49 = $21.19 a gallon So next time you're at the pump, be glad your car doesn't run on White Out! Okay so the report is interesting, but I am not worried about the WOPC (White Out Producing Companies) cutting back on production or raising their prices. The stuff won’t work in an engine and makes a mess of my monitor! Reference source: Not really sure, but reasonable enough to print. Beav |
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Mmmmmm... gallon of NyQuil....
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Randy Johnson 3rd Registered Member 02-21-2001 First Member to Reach 10,000 Posts First to arrive at the very first Reading Meet Subaru Ambassador 1992 SVX PPG Pace Car Replica 110+k 1993 White Impreza L 240+K miles 2001 Legacy Outback Limited Sedan 250+K miles 2013 Deep Indigo Pearl Legacy 3.6R 49+K miles "Reading is my favorite Holiday" Mike Davis -- at Reading VI |
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Maybe Ron can tell us what a Box-O-Zinfindel costs per gallon.
Larry III Chivas Regal Gran Salute is aprrox. $200 per gal. or $50/gal. - OTBOTT |
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Randy Johnson 3rd Registered Member 02-21-2001 First Member to Reach 10,000 Posts First to arrive at the very first Reading Meet Subaru Ambassador 1992 SVX PPG Pace Car Replica 110+k 1993 White Impreza L 240+K miles 2001 Legacy Outback Limited Sedan 250+K miles 2013 Deep Indigo Pearl Legacy 3.6R 49+K miles "Reading is my favorite Holiday" Mike Davis -- at Reading VI |
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I'll take that Vic and up that
Any allergy suffer'ers here? Try NasalCrom. It used to be perscription. Now I have to buy it over the counter. Price $17 per .88 fl oz.
Now that's 64 ozs to Gal right? So.....$1,236.36 /gal. Owch. And of course, the truth of the matter is that the stuff is 80% water! Ya sure its probably DI water but still!! Dang those pharm. companies..... let's just hope that my SVX doesn't develop a runny nose.
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Fuelish question
While we are on the topic of high octane after shave....do Indy cars (CART-IRL) still run on methanol? What is the exact chemical composition of that? Alcohol and what? (Larry???) Not to be confused with ethanol of course. What kind of engine design is needed to run that stuff?
I watched the STP wedge turbine car run tire tests at Indy once. It was so quiet you could hear the suspension working! Whooshed by leaving a heat wave behind it. It used a helicopter turbine and ran on kerosene if I remember right. I think I remember reading that it could be tuned to run on anything from lighter fluid to perfume..Don
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Jet Fuel
If I remember correctly, jet fuel is called JP-1 (at least one variety of it), and is basically high grade kersosene.
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Re: Fuelish question
[QUOTE]Originally posted by SVXphile
[B]While we are on the topic of high octane after shave....do Indy cars (CART-IRL) still run on methanol? What is the exact chemical composition of that? Alcohol and what? (Larry???) Not to be confused with ethanol of course. What kind of engine design is needed to run that stuff? Methanol's for cars? I uhhh.. Oh..uhh.. nevermind. Ron.
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