Foo - Lattes going for 28 dollars a gallon

With all the talk about the high price of gas, I thought that I'd figure the cost per gallon of another valuable liquid. Figuring a 16 oz latte at 3.50 (tax and all), that works out to 28 bucks a gallon. Now I have to figure out what my MPL (miles per latte) is.

Steve
Who is tired tonight

I don't drink coffee. :D

I saw a site where Gatorade is calculated at 12 bucks a gallon about and hair gel for 30 bucks a gallon about.

I buy powdered gatorade because it's easier to haul home on the bike. It's 2 or 3 bucks a gallon, can't remember.

With all the talk about the high price of gas, I thought that I'd figure the cost per gallon of another valuable liquid. Figuring a 16 oz latte at 3.50 (tax and all), that works out to 28 bucks a gallon. Now I have to figure out what my MPL (miles per latte) is.

Steve
Who is tired tonight


But, isn't a latte equivalent to premium gasoline? What's the price of a (gasp!) regular coffee, and how does that translate to price per gallon?

(I'd do the math, but I don't drink coffee, so I have no idea of what it costs.)

In terms of raw costs, it is prob still cheaper to drive than ride.
This assumes you ride a nice bike, spend a fair amount on bike clothes.

That, however ignores deferred costs. Staying healthy avoids a lot of medical bills and those are deferred or avoided costs.

As Lance likes to point out. you don't need to eat much to survive.
It would easy enough to make riding cheaper, and I am sure many BF members do just that.

But what i am getting at is that it doesn't matter. We ride.
That matters. If a hurricane wrecks the oil supply, I can still get to work. On a lot of my vacations, I just hop on my bike and take off for a few days. It's a good way to live.

I also think you have to equalize the price out to cost per consumption. Like how much you spend a week, or a month on various things... I spend the most on liquor apparently...