What startup ideas might work if gas was $0.06 per gallon?
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I'd give it away as an incentive.
Imagine you went a restaurant where as you ate, the valet not only parked your car, but filled it with ... for free. A 15 gallon fill-up would only cost 90¢, plus valet time. Bring on the carne mechada.
That, or something to do with cheap explosions.
Imagine you went a restaurant where as you ate, the valet not only parked your car, but filled it with ... for free. A 15 gallon fill-up would only cost 90¢, plus valet time. Bring on the carne mechada.
That, or something to do with cheap explosions.
But if gas was widely available at 90c per tank, it wouldn't be a big deal. People don't flock to restaurants now because they give free tap water.
I would do my first startup in the airline industry :).
Anything that has any connection with transporting anything. That goes for all of the businesses that I can think of.
If you have to grossly limit your revenue to stay unnoticed by a hostile government then why bother?
Keeping your revenue below $250m or so might be enough. Happened to HSBC and Chevron as I recall. I hardly consider that as a gross limitation given what most people on this site will realistically achieve.
What about the obvious one. Buy gas at 6 cents and sell it on the black market.
This is actually done:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/laplaza/2008/07/venezuelans-...
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/laplaza/2008/07/venezuelans-...
Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/slideshow/2013-02-13/highest-cheapest-gas-prices-by-country.html#slide61