Perspective
From Jeff Matthews blog
.....people complain "that it now costs $3.25 for a gallon of gasoline that has been shipped via crude oil tanker from depleting oil fields in Saudi Arabia across 3,000 miles of ocean to an offshore tanker port, pumped through pipes to a refinery in the Gulf Coast, refined via an energy-intensive distillation process into a variety of fuels -- jet fuel, diesel fuel, kerosene and even asphalt, not to mention three types of gasoline -- and then shipped by pipeline to distribution terminals from whence it has been loaded into tank trucks and hauled up an interstate highway to a gas station for the Starbucks customer who is complaining about the 'High Cost of Gasoline' ...and doesn't think twice about paying $9.85 for a gallon of water."
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Ok I am the Starbucks customer bitching about the cost of gas. A little perspective is good....But I still feel violated at the gas pump.
Comments
$9.85 for a gallon of water? Is that in Death Valley or something?
Posted by: Fletch | July 19, 2006 11:28 PM
I think he meant the cost of a gallon using what we pay for bottled water.
Posted by: Brent | July 20, 2006 05:13 PM