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[Mark]

Got you beat: We're at $3.64 the last time I checked.

We're averaging $4.17. Basically, one gallon for me is that same as four days of food (I can eat cheap, and not at McDonalds).

Sucky. It helps to live a few dozen miles from one of the largest refinery complexes in the country.

Oh, and I eat super cheap myself. Cooking is fun.

Gas is about $3.68 or so out here in Hawaii as well (but then we to have our own refinery on the island), but the price of food in figgin insane I suppose because everything except pineapples has to be broght over on a ship, but still a good steak is about $12 or $14 bucks, and a gallon of milk is $5 for the cheapest on the island.

[Mikey]

I had noticed that when I was out there way back in '99. One of the locals in Ka'anapali told me that there's often a huge gathering when the restocking plane lands for the Wal-Mart or the Home Depot. Interestingly, even a lot of products that are native to the islands are expensive, because the vast majority is earmarked for export rather than local consumption.

[Mark]

That's why Kona Coffee is so expensive out here as well. But never before moving to Hawaii, have I walked into a store that was really and honestly out of something. NEVER will I forget walking into a grocery store to find them completely and utterly out of toilet paper (somebody had screwed up the order). I'm sure that was a natural disaster for several people and a day that will live on in there minds and bathrooms

[Mikey]

I imagine it's worse on Maui and Kauai then on Oahu and Hawai'i.

[Aaron]

That's why Kona Coffee is so expensive out here as well. But never before moving to Hawaii, have I walked into a store that was really and honestly out of something. NEVER will I forget walking into a grocery store to find them completely and utterly out of toilet paper (somebody had screwed up the order). I'm sure that was a natural disaster for several people and a day that will live on in there minds and bathrooms

You should head upto the Arctic, scarcity has a new meaning there.

[Tsukiyumi]

That's why Kona Coffee is so expensive out here as well. But never before moving to Hawaii, have I walked into a store that was really and honestly out of something. NEVER will I forget walking into a grocery store to find them completely and utterly out of toilet paper (somebody had screwed up the order). I'm sure that was a natural disaster for several people and a day that will live on in there minds and bathrooms

You should head upto the Arctic, scarcity has a new meaning there.

I've thought about going to work at McMurdo station in Antarctica; rationing is SOP down there. You only get to take a two-minute shower once a week.

[Aaron]

I've thought about going to work at McMurdo station in Antarctica; rationing is SOP down there. You only get to take a two-minute shower once a week.

Every week? That's pretty generous.

[Mikey]

You only get to take a two-minute shower once a week.

I'd just roll over and die in three days.

[Aaron]

I'd just roll over and die in three days.

Bah! You can stretch it out for a month or two easily.

[Mikey]

Nope - me and showers are very close friends.

[Aaron]

Nope - me and showers are very close friends.

*meh* It's amazing what you can do when you have no choice.

[Tsukiyumi]

For anybody who hasn't seen it before:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMurdo_Station

http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/antarctica/ba ... tay.html#9

And, I see they've upped it to every other day for showers now (though still two minutes only). That'd be a breeze.

[Mikey]

I'm a 25-minute a day guy, easy.

[Tsukiyumi]

I'm a 25-minute a day guy, easy.

I already take two-minute showers because the damn drain backs up if I take any longer. Drain cleaner hasn't helped to date.

[Mark]

That's why Kona Coffee is so expensive out here as well. But never before moving to Hawaii, have I walked into a store that was really and honestly out of something. NEVER will I forget walking into a grocery store to find them completely and utterly out of toilet paper (somebody had screwed up the order). I'm sure that was a natural disaster for several people and a day that will live on in there minds and bathrooms

You should head upto the Arctic, scarcity has a new meaning there.

I've thought about going to work at McMurdo station in Antarctica; rationing is SOP down there. You only get to take a two-minute shower once a week.

Isn't that the station where they just shipped like an insane amount of condoms?