Let's check the facts. Here are some historical lists of gas prices:
Now let's take a look at the real cost of gas versus other "important" fluids:
| Price/gal | Energy/gal | Cost/energy | How to get it | |
| Water | $2 | 0 | infinite | Open tap. Fill bottle. (Ok, most companies "filter" their bottled water. Yeah, right.) |
| Milk | $3.50 | 1280 kCal/gal | $0.0027/kCal | Buy a cow. Feed it grass. Attach a milker machine to it twice a day. Pasteurize the milk with heat. Bottle and ship. |
| Gas | $2 | 31,499 kCal/gal | $.000063/kCal | Drill a hole several miles into the crust of the earth, preferably in several thousand feet of freezing, dangerous sea. Pump up crude oil. Fill up a supertanker, costing tens of millions of dollars, and ship it halfway around the world. Refine it using dangerous chemical processes in a multi-million dollar refinery. Ship the finished product by truck or pipeline another thousand miles to the point of use. What could be easier? |
The fact of the matter remains, for two dollars you can buy a gallon of gas, which contains enough energy to move a one-ton piece of metal over twenty miles. If you can do it cheaper, maybe you should start your own company.
Next we'll hear how postage stamps are too expensive. 34 cents to send a letter across the country!?! Give it to me, I'll do it for half the price! Think of all the money you'll save!
