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| Re: [GMCnet] Non GMC// Wine vs gas prices [message #203124 is a reply to message #203121] |
Sat, 30 March 2013 19:48   |
Darryl
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Not sure I'm ready to start drinking wine that sells for less than $5.00 per gallon. What's that, around a dollar a bottle?
Darryl Meyers
1978 Eleganza II
El Dorado Hills, CA
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| Re: [GMCnet] Non GMC// Wine vs gas prices [message #203125 is a reply to message #203121] |
Sat, 30 March 2013 19:51 |
habbyguy
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I'm thinking that $4/gallon wine might not taste better than the gasoline equivalent. And hey, with the ethanol, you're going to probably end up with the same results (badly drunk, and with serious liver damage).
I guess what we need to do is work it out with the federal government that we have to buy a gallon of moonshine every time we buy 10 gallons of ethanol-free gas. You'd still go as far as you would if the moonshine was mixed in with that 10 gallons of gas, it wouldn't dissolve your gas system, and you'd have a gallon of moonshine (which I'd suggest using for cleaning parts rather than ingesting, but to each their own).
Mark Hickey
Mesa, AZ
1978 Royale Center Kitchen
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| Re: [GMCnet] Non GMC// Wine vs gas prices [message #203127 is a reply to message #203125] |
Sat, 30 March 2013 19:55 |
k2gkk
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Uhhhh; isn't moonshine made of ethanol?
Mac from OKC
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On Mar 30, 2013, at 19:51, "Mark" <mark@habcycles.com> wrote:
I'm thinking that $4/gallon wine might not taste better than the gasoline equivalent. And hey, with the ethanol, you're going to probably end up with the same results (badly drunk, and with serious liver damage).
I guess what we need to do is work it out with the federal government that we have to buy a gallon of moonshine every time we buy 10 gallons of ethanol-free gas. You'd still go as far as you would if the moonshine was mixed in with that 10 gallons of gas, it wouldn't dissolve your gas system, and you'd have a gallon of moonshine (which I'd suggest using for cleaning parts rather than ingesting, but to each their own).
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Mesa, AZ
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| Re: [GMCnet] Non GMC// Wine vs gas prices [message #203141 is a reply to message #203127] |
Sat, 30 March 2013 20:54 |
habbyguy
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| k2gkk wrote on Sat, 30 March 2013 17:55 |
Uhhhh; isn't moonshine made of ethanol?
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That was exactly my point. Leave it out of the gas, and we still get the same mileage out of 9 gallons of "real gas" as with 10 gallons of 10% ethanol blend. It's just that I'd rather be forced to buy a gallon of ethanol separately than have it mixed in with my gasoline (as is mandated in most places now). I'd come out ahead, and would have a never-ending supply of parts cleaner / paint remover / intoxicant.
Mark Hickey
Mesa, AZ
1978 Royale Center Kitchen
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| Re: [GMCnet] Non GMC// Wine vs gas prices [message #203143 is a reply to message #203141] |
Sat, 30 March 2013 21:01 |
Don A
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I just learned the other day that the law requiring ethanol in gasoline also requires it to be made from corn - you know to support the farmers. A local company here has developed a way to make it from something else, natural gas I think, not sure I remember that correctly. And the company is doing quite well making and selling the ethanol overseas.
Don Adams Dallas, TX
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rebuilt by R Archer, powered by J Bounds, Koba
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| Re: [GMCnet] Non GMC// Wine vs gas prices [message #203159 is a reply to message #203124] |
Sat, 30 March 2013 21:46 |
jhbridges
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We used to buy Boone's Farm 'Strawberry Hill' at the Keesler comissary for right at 79 cents a bottle. In case lots. You hadda be in your 20s to appreciate the head that stuff would put on you. But, as a bud said, "Over ice with a shot of vodka in, ain't bad..."
--johnny
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Subject: Re: [GMCnet] Non GMC// Wine vs gas prices
Not sure I'm ready to start drinking wine that sells for less than $5.00 per gallon. What's that, around a dollar a bottle?
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1978 Eleganza II
El Dorado Hills, CA
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| Re: [GMCnet] Non GMC// Wine vs gas prices [message #203193 is a reply to message #203121] |
Sun, 31 March 2013 12:07 |
rallymaster
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Some of the wine we drank in France was about the same price as the
gasoline.
About 85 cents equivalent per litre; gas was about 3.70 a gal. O:f
course it was in Francs per litre, and I've forgotten exactly what it
was. The wine was a quite drinkable red table wine. It also cost about
the same as the gasoline to drive on the toll roads. 3 Francs worth of
gas let you drive on about 3 Francs worth of toll road. Stick to the
local roads.
RonC
On Sat, 30 Mar 2013 19:48:23 -0500 Darryl Meyers <hospacctg@att.net>
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> Not sure I'm ready to start drinking wine that sells for less than
> $5.00 per gallon. What's that, around a dollar a bottle?
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> Darryl Meyers
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> 1978 Eleganza II
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> El Dorado Hills, CA
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| Re: [GMCnet] Non GMC// Wine vs gas prices [message #203198 is a reply to message #203193] |
Sun, 31 March 2013 13:32 |
jhbridges
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The few times my Rich Uncle deposited me in a position to try the local economy over there, we always drank 'vino casa' with the meal. It was usually the same price as 'mineral water' (bottled water) and in my estimation a hell of a lot safer. It ranged, to my unsophisticated palate, from Really Good to Put It Back In The Horse.
--johnny
'76 23' transmode norris
'76 palm beach
From: "rallymaster@juno.com" <rallymaster@juno.com>
To: gmclist@temp.gmcnet.org
Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2013 1:07 PM
Subject: Re: [GMCnet] Non GMC// Wine vs gas prices
Some of the wine we drank in France was about the same price as the
gasoline.
About 85 cents equivalent per litre; gas was about 3.70 a gal. O:f
course it was in Francs per litre, and I've forgotten exactly what it
was. The wine was a quite drinkable red table wine. It also cost about
the same as the gasoline to drive on the toll roads. 3 Francs worth of
gas let you drive on about 3 Francs worth of toll road. Stick to the
local roads.
RonC
On Sat, 30 Mar 2013 19:48:23 -0500 Darryl Meyers <hospacctg@att.net>
writes:
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> Not sure I'm ready to start drinking wine that sells for less than
> $5.00 per gallon. What's that, around a dollar a bottle?
> --
> Darryl Meyers
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> 1978 Eleganza II
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> El Dorado Hills, CA
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