[rollei_list] Re: OT "the price of gasoline" $3 here in Oregon
- From: "Roger M. Wiser" <wiserr@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 12:44:58 -0500
How about the return on the investment on Concorde?
Roger
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From: "Ardeshir Mehta" <ardeshir@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 10:06 PM
Subject: [rollei_list] Re: OT "the price of gasoline" $3 here in Oregon
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> 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
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>> 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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