Gallon of Gas Expensive?

So you are fed up with the cost of gas these days? The following conversions make one think, and also puts things in perspective.

• Diet Snapple 16 oz $1.29 - $10.32 per gallon
• Lipton Ice Tea 16 oz $1.19 - $9.52 per gallon
• Gatorade 20 oz $1.59 - $10.17 per gallon
• Ocean Spray 16 oz $1.25 - $10.00 per gallon
• Whiteout 7 oz $1.39 - $25.42 per gallon
• Scope 1.5 oz $0.99 - $84.48 per gallon
• Pepto Bismol 4 oz $3.85 - $123.20 per gallon
• Vick's Nyquil 6 oz $8.35 - $178.13 per gallon

And the REAL KICKER – Evian water 9 oz $1.49 - $21.19 per gallon - and buyers don't even know the source! (Evian spelled backwards is Naïve.)

So the next time you're at the pump, be glad your car doesn't run on water, Scope, or Whiteout, or God forbid Pepto Bismal or Nyquil!

From a presentation by James T. Kenny, Ph.D.
Western Illinois University at the National Conference of the
Transportation Intermediaries Association
Miami, FL – March 2005