Gas Prices

[El_Phil]

Doesn't scale up though does it? You only get cheap food from Agri-biz scale farming. And as we've established Americans get very upset and whine if prices for anything go up even a little bit.

[Phoenix-D]

It doesn't even scale -down-. Using a horse to get to work will cost you significantly more than a car.

[Baron Munchausen]

Phoenix-D said:
It doesn't even scale -down-. Using a horse to get to work will cost you significantly more than a car.

Gack! Have you bought a car in the last 20 years? Paid insurance? Paid for maintenance (like replacing tires, shock-absorbers, etc.)? Bought gas in the last year?

Cars are very expensive to own. The only thing that can be said in favor of them over horses is that they don't use 'fuel' when they're not actually in use -- horses must be fed every day of course, and their routine 'waste' doesn't clutter the road -- horses do add a 'road maintenance' problem (although the 'corpses' of cars are much harder to dispose of than horses).

[Phoenix-D]

Yes, I've done all that. Let me see if I can find that age that actually did the math..