Comments on: Happy 4th of July (and Some Statistics)

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 11:22:23 +0000

Gas or beer is fine…just as long as cars don’t run on inkjet printer ink. (Filling a typical gas tank with that stuff would cost over $100,000.)

By: nickel

nickel — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 15:49:39 +0000

I should’ve known that we’d be hearing from the ice cream expert himself!

By: FMF

FMF — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 15:30:05 +0000

Regarding ice cream, prices are down overall due to lots of promotional activity this year. Something’s always on deal! (of course, Moose Tracks is best and is worth buying whether on deal or not!)

By: nickel

nickel — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 21:50:20 +0000

To be fair, the article that you linked doesn’t say what they’re comparing the lower prices against. Perhaps they’re lower relative to the holidays, but not lower as compared to a year ago (e.g., was there a fall runup in prices followed by recent price cutting?). But your point about bad beer struggling and recent price cuts is well taken. With regard to the second point about brewing your own beer vs. at-home biodiesel production, how many people are setup to produce enough beer to fill a gas tank even infrequently?

By: Todd Derscheid

Todd Derscheid — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 20:31:08 +0000

Mainstream horrible beer prices are down.

I wish our cars DID run on beer instead of gas. More Americans make their own beer than make their own ethanol or bio-diesel already.

By: nickel

nickel — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 19:39:22 +0000

As I recall, milk prices were sky high awhile back and have moderated somewhat since that time. Perhaps something similar has happened with ice cream.

By: JLP

JLP — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 19:24:56 +0000

Nickel,

I find it hard to believe that ice cream has dropped in price since last year. Anyway, Happy 4th.