we all like to moan about gas prices

[Kalahari Inkantation]

But have you ever considered just how enormously underpriced it is knowing what it's capable of?

35kg (76lb) of gasoline (equally to 12 gallons, the average tank size) can propel a 1500kg vehicle (average car mass, not including the added mass of human passengers, luggage, and the fuel itself) for ~300 miles (480km) at 60+ mph, nonstop

1500kg is over 43x the mass of a full tank

This incredible feat can be achieved by virtually anyone for about $36, as of today's national average gas prices. To us this is unreasonably high.

Is there a more (non-nuclear) energy-dense substance known to man? Let alone one that's remotely as cheap as oil is?

and it's even crazier to think about just how spoiled we are when you consider that after oil is combusted, it's permanently destroyed and irreplaceable

our finite supply of oil is so underappreciated

we really do take it for granted lol

itt common basic commodities you simply can't believe are as affordable as they are

[YPrrrr]

Yeah plus compared to a number of other places in the world we have it really easy for affording fuel.

[Travis]

most peeps got no idea the unbelievable feats of engineering they participate in everyday, from cars to roads to buildings etc etc. human ingenuity is genuinely amazing if you stop to think about what we have now and how fast we got it

[YPrrrr]

Fucking magnets how do they work?

[silvertone]

well you guys can pay the higher prices lol

[don't let's]

Every once in a while I'll think about how all the gas around here has an extra 9/10ths of a cent added onto the price, and I wonder if I'm getting cheated out of some change eventually

[don't let's]

itt common basic commodities you simply can't believe are as affordable as they are

when you drink/bathe/cook/wash/sanitize with recycled waste water.

[Thyme]

itt common basic commodities you simply can't believe are as affordable as they are

bananas and other """tropical""" fruits

[C.Mongler]

i took a shit today, when you think about it thats fucking amazing

[Kalahari Inkantation]

well you guys can pay the higher prices lol

that would only be encouraging our haphazard use of it

really, the most ethical and prudent thing i could do with petroleum for the future of mankind is simply steal and stow away as much of it as i can

[Kalahari Inkantation]

itt common basic commodities you simply can't believe are as affordable as they are

bananas and other """tropical""" fruits

the mass availability of pineapples in particular is nothing short of miraculous

a pineapple plant takes two years to bear one fruit and then immediately dies

they were at one point so uncommon and so notoriously dificult to cultivate that

Because of the expense of direct import and the enormous cost in equipment and labour required to grow them in a temperate climate, using hothouses called "pineries", pineapples soon became a symbol of wealth. They were initially used mainly for display at dinner parties, rather than being eaten, and were used again and again until they began to rot.

now they're available from pole to freezing pole, sometimes year-round, for about $2 each

[TooB]

I got gas.....

[spoiler]by which I mean farts [/spoiler]

[don't let's]

labour

[strongbad]

im so blaZd

[silvertone]

well you guys can pay the higher prices lol

that would only be encouraging our haphazard use of it

really, the most ethical and prudent thing i could do with petroleum for the future of mankind is simply steal and stow away as much of it as i can

you can do that