"H.J." wrote in
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Fuel is $2.65 for self serve 100LL! Does it have pure gold flakes in
it? Why isnt it $1.50?

I'll support the argument of supply and demand with a paraphrasing of an
article that I read a few weeks ago....


You're complaining about paying $2.65 for gas. How much did you pay for the
Gallon of Milk you bought at the grocery store? $2.99? How about a gallon
of coffee? If you buy it at Dunkins, you probably pay $1.50 or so for a 16
oz coffee (2 cups). To make a gallon, you would need to buy 8 of those!
That makes $12 / gallon! And they're the cheap ones! If you go to Starbucks
you probably pay more than DOUBLE that! $24/gallon of coffee! And while I
know that your morning coffee might provide that extra "lift" to get
through the day, I suspect that you would give it up in a heartbeat to pay
for a little over an hour of flying in most light singles (2 hours in
some)!

Wait. I'm not done!

You know water? That stuff that you can go to the tap, turn the knob, and
get for pennies on the gallon? Well, if you take that water, put it in a 20
oz bottle, and put a blue label on it, you can go to a soda machine and pay
up to $2.00 for it! Well, that equates to $12.80 / gallon of water! WATER!!
You are going to pay nearly $13 for something that if you walked past the
soda machine to the bathroom you could get for FREE!

So you see, it's all about marketing - supply and demand is king. The
reason someone can get $50k for a 20 year old piper is because there is
someone willing to pay that much for it. And while that someone may not be
you or me, it's someone...

But then, I generally make my coffee in a pot at home using water that
comes out of the tap...