[AR] Re: Faster Space Transport? (was Re: Zubrin,
- From: William Claybaugh <wclaybaugh2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 15:50:14 -0600
David:
A fair point but difficult to model at this level; simply lumping overhead
into everything that is below the cost of goods sold is a conservative
approximation for this sort of analysis.
Bill
On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 3:47 PM William Claybaugh <wclaybaugh2@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Robert:
All companies have G&A, overhead and profit expenses, without exception
(not for profit organizations of course do w/o the profit).
Peter’s lack of business experience does not make his numbers plausible:
as modeled, Peter’s depot will be quickly bankrupt because he is charging a
price for fuel that is way below the company’s actual costs.
Bill
On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 3:41 PM Robert Steinke <robert.steinke@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 2:23 PM William Claybaugh <wclaybaugh2@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Peter:
Sorry, the 100% of cost of goods sold is a very generous estimate of
G&A, Overhead, and profit. These more commonly run around 20-25%, 110%,
and 10%, respectively
Those numbers are for an aerospace company, not a gas station. You need
to remember that Peter's comments are implicitly prefaced with, "When depot
usage becomes common enough that the economics become similar to a gas
station..."
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