Here in the U.S., in the northeast where I am, the cost of a gallon of milk is anywhere from $4 to $4.50 a gallon. What are you folks paying in your part of the planet?

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I actually don't know (would never make a good politician)--don't look at the price when I buy it, in contrast to gasoline! Same with bottled water which, in small bottles, is probably a bit more than gasoline. But then, I don't go through 15 gallons of milk/bottled water a week either.

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Nothing. I eat chalk for my calcium.

Seriously, I no longer buy milk. I get more than enough sun for Vit D, and get my calcium via yogurt, cottage cheese, and cheese.

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About €0.65 a litre for the cheaper brands. Which is less than half what I pay for gasoline.

When I lived in Ontario a litre was around $2.25 - although it was cheaper if you bought it in larger quantities.

- J

Just paid C$4.69 for 4 litres of 2%, which is 84% of the cost of the same volume of regular gasoline here.

Well, unless it's shot way up in the last week, here in Minnesota, a gallon of milk costs about $2.90 at Sam's. On top of that, every few weeks, our grocery store usually has a sale - 2 gallons for $5.

As we have a three year old son, we tend to go through a lot of milk.

Ah, but you probably have to buy both at once to get the savings, at least that's how it works here in California, much to my consternation. (Congratulations on your prices, tho---sounds like yours is among the most inexpensive in the U.S.)
Right now, one of the local leading market chains is offering a sale on their own branded milk:You cannot buy only 1 gallon and divide $5.79 by 2.
Non-sale competing brands are $5.49/gal. and $6.99 for "organic", at this same store. Whenever these brands go on sale, the same "must-buy-two" rule goes into effect. What about those who cannot consume that much milk at one buying.

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Sorry to leave the conversion to you, but in Tokyo it's usually about 200 yen for a liter.

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$1.93 for a half gallon of 2% milk. 1% is about $1.87. Skim is $1.80. Whole milk pushing $2.00

Interesting, eh?

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I'm doing the almost $5 a gallon too. I'll cruise through a gallon of milk in a day and a half by myself.

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In this part of the earth, the average whole UHT milk costs R$ 2.00 [US$ 1.20] a litre --> US$ 4.50 a gallon.

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I'll say, as it takes more processing to rid itself of the fat! However, that fat isn't just thrown away, but is used in other products, which may account for the price differential.

Personally I believe it's simply because most people don't like drinking skim milk...

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If we halt the ISS, all versions of Ares, and transport Orion and Altair aboard DIRECTv3's Jupiter family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles, we just might make it back to the Moon by 2020.

That's one each month (lunar month).

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If we halt the ISS, all versions of Ares, and transport Orion and Altair aboard DIRECTv3's Jupiter family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles, we just might make it back to the Moon by 2020.

The average price here is $3.02 per 2 litres - approximately $6.80 a gallon.
A kilo block of cheese can cost $15.00.

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Ok--two gas stations in Edgewater, MD (Exxon and BP) across the street from each other, are selling milk for $3.15 per gallon and advertising it with big signs.

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"Two---two cartels in one!"

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I saw that a lot when I was living in Illinois. Even for convenience stores (or gas stations), milk is one of those staple items that you can use to draw in customers.

Actually that calculation is for an Imperial (UK) gallon (160 fl oz) - 4.5 litres. I expect OP had in mind a US gallon (128 fl oz) - 3.8 litres.

I pay about a $1 per liter.
It is interesting that in the US you also think Milk is controlled by a cartel, locally it is always muted in the media. There is a tribunal looking to the price fixing.

This gems is from this link http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_i...1224516C509325

Then the tribunal itself will be in September.
From this link http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/art...hp?a_id=126848

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We've got two main grocery stores near us. Every other week one of them has it on sale for either $2.50 or $2.77 a gallon. This month is "Dairy Month" at one of them, so it's been on sale a lot.

I tried dumping a bunch in my gas tank but that didn't work out so well.

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On discount I would pay
0.68€ct per liter for 3.8% fat 2.57€/gallon -> 4.07US$/gallon
0.61€ct per liter for 1.5% fat 2.31€/gallon -> 3.65US$/gallon

But as I buy "organic" milk and get it delivered directly to my door I pay
1.10€ per liter for 3.8% fat 4.16€/gallon ->6.58US$/gallon
1.05€ per liter for 1.5% fat 3.97/gallon -> 6.27US$/gallon

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It might be the other way around. Does anybody know where to get the numbers for what I'm about to say...I'd love to know if I'm close.

But; judging by the price of cheese, and the price of milk, and the shelf life of each, it would seem to me that the cheese is the higher demand product.

I don't know how many dairys work this way, but from what I have seen it works this way:
The fats are extracted from the milk, and what remains is skim. They add some of the fat back in depending on the level of demand for each type of milk.
They would love to sell skim only, leaving more for cheese and butter.

Personally I believe it's simply because most people don't like drinking skim milk...[/quote]

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I don't know if all diaries do it alike but I visited one last week and they remove the fat depending of the needed fat content for their cheese.
They do not remove all and then put back what is needed but remove only the part that is not needed. The not needed part is used to produce butter and cream.

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Most milk you get from a (US) supermarket is actually powdered and reconstituted (cheaper to ship it that way) so the fat does have to be removed and re-added. To get milk that was never powdered, you buy milk labeled "organic". I've found the difference in taste so minuscule as to go with the cheaper variety.

If one could send "dry gas" at a fraction of the weight of ordinary gasoline, and "just add water" to reconstitute it, gas would be cheaper. But of course, that can't happen. Everybody knows if you try to boil gas dry it will ignite

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I've never heard that. The organic lable is reserved for how the cows are raised and what they are fed, not powdered milk. The powdered milk is in a box on the shelf separate from the fresh milk.

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I just learned today that if I'm ever to get off my hypertension med, I need to avoid red meat, dairy fat in all forms (butter, cheese, cottage cheese, even plain yogurt), drink 1/2% to 1% skim milk for my calcium, exercise even more than I already am, and aside from fish, become a near vegetarian.

I'll still have a dollap of plain yogurt a day, low fat, if I can find it, and the occasional helping of cottage cheese, but half-sized, and with fresh fruit.

I've always thought of myself as being healthy, but my body is convincing me that I wasn't as healthy as I thought I was.

Mugs wants a double-bacon cheeseburger! Waaaahhh!!!

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If I set the budget, we'd have Ares and more. Unfortunately, I don't set the budget, and Ares is just too expensive and too far out for us to accomplish our goals within the budget we were given.

If we halt the ISS, all versions of Ares, and transport Orion and Altair aboard DIRECTv3's Jupiter family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles, we just might make it back to the Moon by 2020.

Well, I got it on good authority from this guy at this bull session. And he's an expert! (in Chemistry, anyway).

So, maybe not. But I wonder where this person got it, since he's usually reliable, at least with Chemistry, Catholicism, and cuantum computing (ok, tried to make it alliterative).

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