Why is beer more expensive than petrol?
1. Gasoline is produced on a much larger scale than beer. 2. You only have to hunt, drill, and install the pump once for a particular reserve and then you are good to produce vast amounts of crude petroleum. Shipping and refining go about on a massive scale. With beer you have mix that “mold, treacle and sugar” in relatively tiny batches, time and time again. It simply costs more gallon for gallon to produce ethanol from fermentation: if it didn’t, ethanol as a fuel would be a no-brainer. 3. Packaging. If you were willing to pull up to a pump and decant some beer into your own container from an underground tank whence it had been directly deposited by a huge tanker truck, it would probably be considerably cheaper. 4. Political subsidy. Global infrastructure is inextricably bound to petroleum, so the production of gasoline is subsidized in hundreds of different ways. 5. Market dynamics. Since gasoline in particular is a relatively uniform product across different manufacturers, at the c
