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OT: the world has changed

Post by Mix » 09 September 05 7:59 pm

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Post by caughtatwork » 09 September 05 8:39 pm

That same bottle on the left would cost $1.75 today :cry:
I might try feeding the car coke and see what it does :D

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Post by Mix » 09 September 05 8:48 pm

caughtatwork wrote: I might try feeding the car coke and see what it does :D
<Homer Simpson Voice>

Hmmm, a coke powered car

<daydream>

One for you, one for me, one for you, one for meÂ…

</daydream>

HmmmÂ…

</Homer Simpson Voice>

:mrgreen:

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Post by caughtatwork » 09 September 05 8:50 pm

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Post by The Ginger Loon » 09 September 05 10:34 pm

Never *ever* purchase Coke at more than $1 per litre.

$1 per litre is the buy-in price for Coke at The Loon Household and at the Capt Chaos Household.

The major supermarket chains will regularly have 1.25lt coke for $1.25 or less or 2lt coke for $2.00 or less. If it costs more than that we don't buy it. The absolute worst way to buy coke is by the can. Even with those large multi-can packs the price is nowhere near $1 per litre.

Of course the other consumerable with a standard buy-in price in our household was chocolate at 1 cent per gram, but I haven't seen that sort of a price for a few years now...

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Post by Richary » 09 September 05 11:20 pm

caughtatwork wrote: I might try feeding the car coke and see what it does :D
<P>So you missed that episode of mythbusters?

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Post by Zytheran » 10 September 05 9:18 pm

The other interesting comparison is plain milk in 600ml cartons vs. bottled water. More often than not the milk is about $1.40 and water is a lot more, from delies and the such. Now that's what I call a ripoff when water in bulk is about 88c per kl.Considering the amount of stuff needed to make milk versus water this is pretty weird.
Maybe you could buy milk, filter out the solid bits and sell the water?? ;-)

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Post by arthurking83 » 11 September 05 12:21 am

Should we blame the government on the ridiculous price of Coke?
Maybe we should organise a nationwide demonstration, to lower the taxes imposed on Coke!
It's a disgrace :roll:

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Post by CraigRat » 11 September 05 12:26 am

arthurking83 wrote:Should we blame the government on the ridiculous price of Coke?
Maybe we should organise a nationwide demonstration, to lower the taxes imposed on Coke!
It's a disgrace :roll:
22nd September - no Coke day!!

I swear.. if someone sends me that 'NO FUEL DAY' email again, I'll cry

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Post by Horus » 11 September 05 12:37 pm

CraigRat wrote:I swear.. if someone sends me that 'NO FUEL DAY' email again, I'll cry
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I've forwarded some tissues via snail mail - they should get to you by the 22nd :)

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Post by ToolkiT » 14 September 05 2:18 am

caughtatwork wrote:That same bottle on the left would cost $1.75 today :cry:
I might try feeding the car coke and see what it does :D
How much is petrol over there now?

Here it is allready at about £1/liter :shock:
Diesel is cheaper than petrol for the first time since I moved here..

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Post by caughtatwork » 14 September 05 8:35 am

At the moment it is around $1.30/litre.
Last week it was around $1.40.
At least one station in Melbourne (they were berated on the radio) was at $1.49.

The RACV suggest it will be coming down to around $1.20 in a week or so and the ACCC is monitoring pricing to ensure there is no profiteering going on by the petrol companies.

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Post by EcoTeam » 14 September 05 8:54 am

caughtatwork wrote:At the moment it is around $1.30/litre.
Last week it was around $1.40.
At least one station in Melbourne (they were berated on the radio) was at $1.49.

The RACV suggest it will be coming down to around $1.20 in a week or so and the ACCC is monitoring pricing to ensure there is no profiteering going on by the petrol companies.
That's of course aside from the regular profiteering and price fixing that happens all year round :wink:

What other product do you know goes up and down 10% in price in a regular cycle every week for no real reason :roll:

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Post by ToolkiT » 14 September 05 8:55 am

Wow, not even 2 years ago (prob less barely live a year in the UK now) pumps were strugling to get the signs up for prices above the dollar....

Mmm this is a global trend prices in holland are sky high too..

This could be a bad sign..

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Post by Damo. » 14 September 05 5:59 pm

What if Fossil Fuels were a limited resource and could one day be entirely depleted! :twisted:

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