[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 20:54:15 -0700
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!
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>Cute Great Circle Route calculator here -> http://gc.kls2.com/
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>David
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>Ardeshir Mehta wrote:
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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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