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Originally Posted by Rico
Brother, I used to work for a friend of my dad's at the gas station he owned. A 32 oz soda, including the water, ice, cup, and syrup cost him 13 cents. In fact, if you buy bottled soda, the cost of the plastic bottle it's in costs more to make than the soda itself. I don't doubt for a minute that it costs more to make gasoline than soda, but I know it doesn't cost all that much to make soda.
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Your right, it cost very little to make a soda. But the cost of making a gal. of gasoline is unbelieveable. There's the cost of drilling, the cost of getting the crude to a refinery, the cost of a refinery is unbelieveable. Just the cost of replacing a 10" valve can cost $6,000 or more. They to have gas bills and electrice and water bills. There's EPA reguations that have to be meet, and if they are not meet, hefty fines follow. Then the stores where you buy the gas, and each of these groups have to make money on their product. People have to lay pipelines and work on all this equipment. It was $2.00 a gal. gasoline and EPA regulations that helped cause refinery after refinery close down, which is what has caused the price to go up. There won't be $2.00 a gal. gasoline in the future unless we go into a depression.
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