[rollei_list] Re: OT "the price of gasoline" $3 here in Oregon
- From: Ardeshir Mehta <ardeshir@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 13:06:35 -0400
On Thursday, April 21, 2005, at 12:37 PM, Jerry Lehrer wrote:
> David,
>
> His math is just as f&^%$ed up as his other thinking! :-)
>
> Jerry
Get over it, Jerry ... it was merely a slight error, and was later
addressed.
A.
+++++
> David Seifert wrote:
>
>> Double Ummm....
>>
>> 30,000 gallons of jet fuel to go 3,000 nm is 10 gallons per mile, not
>> 10 miles per gallon!
>> David
>>
>> David Seifert wrote:
>>
>>> Ummmm, how does this work out when the trip between LHR and JFK is
>>> only 3,000 NM? A bit thirstier I'll bet!
>>>
>>> Cute Great Circle Route calculator here -> http://gc.kls2.com/
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>> Ardeshir Mehta wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wednesday, April 20, 2005, at 10:26 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> You guys are spoilt - I pay roughly the equivalent of US$4 per
>>>>> gallon for regular...
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>
>>>>> Jayanand Govindaraj
>>>>> Chennai, India
>>>>
>>>> Quite right, Jayanand. We can only start complaining when gasoline
>>>> costs over US$10 (or its equivalent) per US gallon.
>>>>
>>>> Did you know that each of the passengers on the Concorde used to
>>>> fly at TWICE the speed of sound 6,000 nautical miles over the
>>>> Atlantic for less than 300 US gallons of jet fuel, costing NO MORE
>>>> THAN US$500 at the time, and often much less? This was with the
>>>> "thirstiest" airliner every to fly. Over 20 miles to the gallon!
>>>> (Do the math: the Concorde carried less than 30,000 gallons of fuel
>>>> in its tanks, and 100 passengers - and was never refuelled in
>>>> mid-air.)
>>>>
>>>> The passengers paid as much as US$15,000 per ticket, and only $500
>>>> for that went towards paying for the fuel. (The rest was for the
>>>> champagne, caviar, foie-gras and truffles on the 3-hour flight,
>>>> surely. Yeah, right.)
>>>>
>>>> Ardeshir <http://homepage.mac.com/ardeshir>
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