You can thank starbucks for the high price of coffee. Even if you don’t buy coffee there . . . I don’t . . . it has certainly affected the price of all coffee shops
@db4690 I was mainly referring to the retail restaurant price of coffee. At home we buy the 3 lb bag of Java Club coffee beans at Costco, grind them ourselves, and making coffee made this way comes to 4.5 cents a cup with cream. The new Keurig and Tassimo pods cost about 50 cents per cup, but they’re selling like hotcakes.
The cheapest restaurant coffee here is Macdonald’s with their new more flavorful coffee at $1 for the standard size, which is plenty large.
Yeah I buy the 80 count box of K cups at Sams and amounts to about 50 cents a cup. The problem is the wife likes exotics like hazelnut and if you brew a pot of that stuff, you can taste it for the next few pots. Don’t have that problem with the K cups. I’d like to take those cheap lousy Keurig machines though and throw them under the bus. Last a little over a year and throw them out after warranty. I’m gonna try and fix the pump in the last one though. Then now they want you to use their own citric cleaner for the minerals instead of $2 vinegar. Only about $20 for a small bottle. So its cheaper to throw the thing out than buy the cleaner. Sheesh-get me going on coffee, but I like to have a cup in the car.
@Bing Why don’t you buy a 4 cup Mister Coffee standard brewing machine for yourself, $18 at Walmart, and brew your own. Your wife can still drink the Keurig ot Tassimo brew at 50 cents a cup. On the other hand, you can buy all those flavored coffees as instant and save a bundle.
We have a 20 year old Black & Decker coffee maker, one of the last ones that says "Made in USA’ on the bottom! It’s indestructible as long as you boil it out with vinegar every 3 months since the water is very hard here.
Our dentist is on his 3rd Keuring machine since the warranty does not cover commercial use.
When I was growing up there were only cents for a price on the pump. Once it went over 1$ a gallon new pumps everywhere. Some stations slow had to calculate the cost.
Get a French press and make about one liter of coffee at a time. I buy whole beans at Trader Joes, coarse grind them in the store, and keep the 14 oz can in the freezer. The coffee is free trade, bought directly from the growers, and is $5 to $8 per can. It cost less if you get the basic, non-gourmet beans. TJs doesn’t have a wide selection, but what they have is very attractively priced.
Yeah I know but its the convenience. I don’t like to spend more time making it than drinking it. Just wish they’d put better motors in 'em.
The French press is quick and convenient. I put 8 level scoops in the glass vessel, pour boiling water into it, and wait 4 minutes for the coffee to steep. It’s as easy as any drip coffee maker. Cleanup is a little easier than a drip machine.
What does coffee have to do with fuel prices???
“What does coffee have to do with fuel prices?”
Don’t you get coffee when you get gas?
Yeah, I’ve got a french press too but its pretty easy just to drop a K cup in and press the button. Plus going from regular to decaf, etc. I limit myself to three cups though throughout the day, so not like a big deal.
Back to gas though, what I have found interesting is that the lower it gets in price, the more attention I actually pay. When it was higher it was just another expense and as long as it didn’t jump up all of a sudden I just got used to it. Now its like hot news and how low can it go so its more exciting. I topped the car off with 5 gallons twice in the last two days after some driving and both times I was around $10. I feel guilty and even wanted to leave a tip.
Well, my wife finally got the Keurig she wanted as a X-mas gift, now I have to pay for the K cups too; it is a gift that keeps on “giving” I guess.
In CA there is a new addition to our gas taxes as part of cap and trade to reduce pollution, so it is supposed to go up another 10-15 cents in 2015.
Yeah, we in PA get a 10-cent bump kicking in pretty soon, too. The good news is that OH is but an hour’s drive from me…and they keep their taxes nice and low!
Pretty outrageous what you Californians pay at the pump. CA’s a big state, but pretty narrow: what about running to NV to stock up?’=-
Possible plate license fee fpr hybrids, due to lost gas tax revinue in WI http://badgerherald.com/news/2014/12/01/proposed-fee-would-disincentivize-electric-hybrid-vehicles-environmental-advocates-say/#.VKZBt1VKX3Y
Now in frack sand mining there is a $50 per year for the amish, due to wear and tear on the roads due to horse hooves, no fees for frack sand trucks, and dnr cannot enforce guidelines in 20 mph or over winds and peoples health, asthma troubles or dust nusiannce are ignored. Scott Walker WI open for business.
I suppose if you live in Lake Tahoe crossing to Nevada for gas would make sense, but most of California’s population is along the Pacific. From where I am in San Francisco I’d have to drive almost 200 miles to Nevada. California isn’t actually very skinny, just very long. Makes us look thin. That and never wearing horizontal stripes.
The Mennonite Horses shoes(at least the ones that are hardsurfaced)are very hard on paved roads and on the concrete bridges they wear a groove in the center of the lane.
10 cents a gallon extra tax ?I wouldnt drive an hour to save to save 10 cents on gas,unless it was on the way .The math is not favorable,but probaly you had better do it while you can(i said this was going to happen)PA will probaly follow suite
Friday, Jan 2, gasoline at COSTCO Denver, $1.60 prices are generally below $2.00 nationwide…
MD is in the middle of gas tax increases, enacted before the big price decrease to pay for road building and repair. At least we got lucky with the decrease in prices to soften the blow. Even VA has enacted a gas tax increase.
^That’s an ADDITIONAL $0.10 that PA has relative to OH; the ABSOLUTE price difference is probably $0.40/gal (or more).
Absolutely, picking up 60 gal or so makes sense, especially if I wait until I have business towards the border in the first place.
EDIT: Upon looking data up on gasbuddy, it’s about a 62c difference! That means it’s worth $37 to me to make a trip across state lines (as I currently have about 60 gallon capacity), and even more as I acquire capacity.
There’s also the civic angle: demonstrating to a gov’t that they cannot, at will, tax whatever they feel like and expect citizens to take it! A noticable diversion of purchasing in wake of a tax does a lot to keep a government “right sized,” and is the modern-day equivalent of dumping tea in the harbor (given that dumping gas in the Allegheny is not ecologically defensible…this is the next-best option!)
FYI, the picture I posted was from a couple weeks ago when I filled up. Price was 2.04/gallon for 93 octane, but I had $1/gallon off at Krogers and took advantage of it.
Someone the last couple of days in Minnesota, (think it was a legislator) was bemoaning how much money was needed to improve the roads and how little of the gas tax goes to transit, and he said this would be a great time to raise the tax. Typical. Spend anything you can. By his thinking it would be a great time to raise the tax a dollar since we’re paying less now. I think every politician and government administrator should be required to take Econ 101 as a start.