Pointless stats
To the editor:
It is sad that, on the front page of the July 5 paper, an article was published describing gasoline prices as a “bargain” compared to other products sold by the gallon. This is PR invasion gone awry. While gasoline may run $2.13 a gallon compared to ice cream being $8 and some change, a major fact was overlooked. Who buys more than 20 gallons of ice cream? But if I fill up my gas tank, that’s how much it holds. Or was research done to see if cooking oil prices had more than doubled in the past five years like gasoline? Leave the pointless statistics and fluffy feel-good PR stories to USA Today. I want to read real news in my paper.
Matt Kuhlman,
Lawrence