Price Per Gallon

Today Don and I were groaning about the rising cost of gasoline, and we started wondering about the price of other liquids which are important to us. Naturally, coffee was the primary part of our discussion because I’m such an addict. There are basically three ways we get our brewed coffee: I make it in my regular pot, in the Keurig, or we go out for it. Feeling a bit like Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land, we came up with the following figures.

            Home brewed with market coffee at $9.00 a pound yields approximately 32 cups to one pound which equals $4.50 a gallon not counting water and electricity. Keurig packs have 18 cups for $11.00 which comes to approx. $0.61 per cup. Again, not counting water and electricity, it’s $9.75 a gallon. Going out to the local coffee shop costs about $1.50 for 8 oz. which comes to $24.00 a gallon.

            Needless to say, we’d be smart to always make it at home because the cost of drinking the brew at  Peet’s, Coffee Bean, or Better Buzz is  much more than the cost of the gas to get there.