[rollei_list] Re: OT "the price of gasoline" $3 here in Oregon
- From: David Seifert <dseifert@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 20:45:29 -0700
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:
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>>You guys are spoilt - I pay roughly the equivalent of US$4 per gallon
>>for regular...
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>>Cheers
>>
>>Jayanand Govindaraj
>>Chennai, India
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>Quite right, Jayanand. We can only start complaining when gasoline
>costs over US$10 (or its equivalent) per US gallon.
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>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.)
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>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.)
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>Ardeshir <http://homepage.mac.com/ardeshir>
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