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Re:An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Serie... by deelowe on Thursday July 06, 2017 @04:59PM (#14713907)
There's a lot of speculation in your comment about things that are critical: The price they pay for gas and distribution costs.
Re:An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Serie... by pdelbarba on Thursday July 06, 2017 @05:25PM (#14714092)
Yea, based on the eia data it should all be ballpark but the calculation is there mostly just to serve as an example. You could shave a little off gas-per-fillup in retrospect because very few people will use 15gal exactly and few new car gas tanks are over 15gal but the $3 service charge balances that out somewhat. Based on the map on their site, it looks like their margins might be slimmer than what I calculated but they succeed by having a lot of customers in a very small area that they serve.