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Holy Schnikey.....Milk Prices

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Originally posted by: njmodi
Milk (a gallon) is more expensive than a gallon of gas.... (waiting for someone to tell me that the comparison in invalid, because we use MUCH less milk than gas and how gas is essential for our economy, etc.)
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Not here. Not anymore. Gas is more expensive than milk. (when bought in 2 gallon increments) The comparison is invalid because of the fact that anything that we put in our mouths has to be guarenteed safe to do so.
 
There was a sign at our local Wal-mart recently on the milk case. Evidently they are using all of the recent instability in gas prices to incease milk prices due to the cost of transporting it. So for the milk truck to get it to the dairy, and then to ship it from there to the store.

Don't know how true it is, but it might explain something.
 
Originally posted by: Nitemare
Originally posted by: Gibson486
Originally posted by: optoman
Originally posted by: Darthvoy
Originally posted by: optoman
$1.89 for a gallon last week, probably one of the only good things about upstate NY.
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What you got was rat milk.
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How do you milk a rat?
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how do buy a gallon of milk for $1.89?

Have you never seen a milked rat?
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You can milk anything with a nipple
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Guys have nipples...have you ever milked a guy's nipple?

Milk here is $2.19-$2.39 depending on if you go to Sam's club or the grocery store.
 
Because of the new food pyramid, more people will be drinking milk so the dairy farmers want to profit on this.
 
Originally posted by: GimpyOne
There was a sign at our local Wal-mart recently on the milk case. Evidently they are using all of the recent instability in gas prices to incease milk prices due to the cost of transporting it. So for the milk truck to get it to the dairy, and then to ship it from there to the store.

Don't know how true it is, but it might explain something.
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Yep. To transport those 1000 gallons of milk at a time, it easily costs an extra $500 in fuel per trip. That's why they need to raise the price 50 cents per gallon.


edit: oh, and last night I bought 2 gallons for $2.79 each (upstate NY)
But last week it was on sale for right around $2 per gallon.
 
Originally posted by: njmodi
Milk (a gallon) is more expensive than a gallon of gas....
(waiting for someone to tell me that the comparison in invalid)
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Fine, let's see you drink a gallon of Gas or power your Car with a Gallon of Milk.
 
it was whole milk was 2.09 last time i looked, which was probably about two weeks ago.

*edit* found a wegman's reciept
It's 2.99 - 1.10 with my shoppers club card :Q crazy
 
Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Originally posted by: njmodi
Milk (a gallon) is more expensive than a gallon of gas....
(waiting for someone to tell me that the comparison in invalid)
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Fine, let's see you drink a gallon of Gas or power your Car with a Gallon of Milk.
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Its just the concept that is mind-boggling. Milk comes from a cow that is on a farm around the corner. Gas is derived from crude oil that is shipped in tankers from who knows where to the refineries, and then from the refineries to the distributions centers/tankers and then the individual gas stations... you would think that just the transport overheads should make gas far more expensive (relative to milk). That just goes to show how much the government subsidies gas.
 
Originally posted by: GimpyOne
There was a sign at our local Wal-mart recently on the milk case.

Evidently they are using all of the recent instability in gas prices to incease milk prices due to the cost of transporting it.

So for the milk truck to get it to the dairy, and then to ship it from there to the store.

Don't know how true it is, but it might explain something.
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What "instability", Gas and Diesel is 40% higher than last year period.

What's unstable about that??? 😕

😎 That means they must mark up everything in the store 40%, can't just pick on those that drink Milk.
 
Originally posted by: njmodi
Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Originally posted by: njmodi
Milk (a gallon) is more expensive than a gallon of gas....
(waiting for someone to tell me that the comparison in invalid)
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Fine, let's see you drink a gallon of Gas or power your Car with a Gallon of Milk.
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Its just the concept that is mind-boggling. Milk comes from a cow that is on a farm around the corner. Gas is derived from crude oil that is shipped in tankers from who knows where to the refineries, and then from the refineries to the distributions centers/tankers and then the individual gas stations... you would think that just the transport overheads should make gas far more expensive (relative to milk). That just goes to show how much the government subsidies gas.
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Bahahaha I like this guy njmodi :thumbsup:

You should be posting in P&N

 
The most expensive liquid is still Flonase. Around $6,000 per gallon.

Keep drinkin milk, it does a body good!!
 
Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Bahahaha I like this guy njmodi :thumbsup:

You should be posting in P&N
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Sarcasm noted - at least I think you are being sarcastic... my meter's not working well - its almost time to go home 🙂

 
Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Originally posted by: GimpyOne
There was a sign at our local Wal-mart recently on the milk case.

Evidently they are using all of the recent instability in gas prices to incease milk prices due to the cost of transporting it.

So for the milk truck to get it to the dairy, and then to ship it from there to the store.

Don't know how true it is, but it might explain something.
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What "instability", Gas and Diesel is 40% higher than last year period.

What's unstable about that??? 😕

😎 That means they must mark up everything in the store 40%, can't just pick on those that drink Milk.
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I'm just quoting the sign. I thought it was interesting as well that it was only really milk that was skyrocketing. I don't mind so much yet.

I spent a few months in Albuquerque in 2000, and milk was about 2x as expensive there as it is here now.(over $4 there/then, and about $2.50 here now) Damn living in the middle of a desert in the middle of nowhere.
 
Originally posted by: Gravity
The most expensive liquid is still Flonase. Around $6,000 per gallon.

Keep drinkin milk, it does a body good!!
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No, it's printing ink at like $20,000/gallon.
 
THat's why I scour the ads for milk deals. WalGreens had gallons for $1.99 last week and Half Gallons for $.99 this week. Normally Sams has them for like $2.20 but grovery stores have them more like $2.80. And I'm in Freaking Wisconsin.
 
Originally posted by: FrankyJunior
THat's why I scour the ads for milk deals. WalGreens had gallons for $1.99 last week and Half Gallons for $.99 this week. Normally Sams has them for like $2.20 but grovery stores have them more like $2.80. And I'm in Freaking Wisconsin.
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Knowing the system, your milk probably comes from Texas.
 
Originally posted by: ViRGE
Originally posted by: Gravity
The most expensive liquid is still Flonase. Around $6,000 per gallon.

Keep drinkin milk, it does a body good!!
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No, it's printing ink at like $20,000/gallon.
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Come on make it a challenge, how about 98% deuterated 1,4-Butanediol, runs right about $310,000/gallon at the moment.

 
Originally posted by: optoman
$1.89 for a gallon last week, probably one of the only good things about upstate NY.
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sing it brutha. :thumbsup:
one of the benefits of living near all those cows, eh?

$1.99/gal here, and that's at convienence stores even.

 
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