"JWS" wrote in message
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For the most part the cost of flying is basic economics, supply vs.
demand.

Not too many people want a 1978 VW, you cannot say the same about any 1978
single engine plane.

Why inspect the VW, if it quits running you may have to talk a walk some
where, different story with the airplane.

Maybe $2.65/gal for 100LL is reasonable, cannot say I have seen it sold
anywhere but airports here in the US. Some third world countries are
probably still burning it in cars. If that is the case, the oil companies
are making a specialty product just for airplanes.

What are the taxes on AvGas and Jet-A? It's around 38-45 cents on automobile
gas (The producers get about 9-15 cents, the parasites get four times as
much).

I do not know a lot about Piper parts and their cost, but the simple 36"
piece of fiberglass was probably built by hand, and they probably are
probably only selling a couple of them a year so there is no economy of
scale.

BINGO!! Cigar to JWS!!