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The True Cost of Oil
Written by Harry   
16 Jun 2008
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At $140 a barrel, oil might look rather expensive. But why is everyone so worried? At the pumps, that translates to a mere £1.10 a litre. By comparison, elvers – or baby eels – are currently selling at £700 a litre. Had the internal combustion engine been designed to run on elvers, it would currently cost £5,400 to make the short trip between Milton Keynes and Welwyn Garden City, assuming one were driving a Toyota Prado 3.0

Yet this is nothing besides the cost of running one’s car on Beluga caviar. At £2500 per kilo, the same trip would cost £19,285. Although the journey is undoubtedly a scenic one, passing as it does through the environs of Luton, expending a respectable annual wage on such pastoral pleasures would surely be too extravagant even for the most spendthrift of auto-flâneurs.

Some other nightmare scenarios for the Toyota Prado 3.0:

Cocaine: £482,857
White Truffle: £540,000

If only things were put in some perspective!!? Image
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Emma () 16 Jun 2008 // 12:54:27
That's sooo true... LOL.
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Tel () 16 Jun 2008 // 13:35:06
Yeah its funny but it mises the point. Cos if cars needed caviar then no one would have cars is it? So its stupid. Also you dont know how much energy compares between different kilograms. Oils bettr because it is cheap and theres still lots of it.
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Anonymous () 23 Jun 2008 // 12:04:54
whoever wrote oil is cheap and that there is still a lot of it has his/her head in the sand. We have peaked. Shell and BP overpromise on the amount of oil that they have, even Siberia where there is a run on oil at the moment is pumping less oil than a year ago. You don't have to compare different kiligrams of energy to know that we are in trouble so how is oil better?
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