I saw Ben Stein speak yesterday. He pondered why americans wake up every day and pay $1.50 for a bottle of water, and support Starbuck's massive profit margin, buying $3.00 12 oz lattes, but when an entire gallon of gasoline, which has to be pumped out of the ground from under the ocean, shipped on a boat, reprocessed and refined, and then shipped again costs more that $3.00 a gallon, people have a hissy because Exxon made an 8% profit margin.
As he pointed out, there are very few liquids that cost less per unit that gasoline, which is amazing when you consider everything that has to happen in order for you to drive down the road.
There should be a rule that if you spend more per day on Starbucks than you do on gas, you are forbidden from complaining about gas prices. If you spend more per day on gas that you do on Starbucks, and you go to Starbucks every day, your car should be confiscated.
**disclaimer: I get a large coffee at Starbucks almost every day. I would rather go to an independent local coffee shop, but there isn't one. During school, I get non-starbucks.
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