On Sat, 01 Jul 2017 18:08:40 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
wrote:

On Sat 01 Jul 2017 10:50:03a, Frank told us...

On 7/1/2017 12:55 PM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
On Sat 01 Jul 2017 05:45:29a, Ed Pawlowski told us...

On 7/1/2017 8:15 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
On Friday, June 30, 2017 at 4:42:02 PM UTC-4, Wade Garrett
wrote:
On 6/30/17 4:22 PM, Oren wrote:
On Fri, 30 Jun 2017 11:54:48 -0400, Wade Garrett
wrote:

After recently attending the retirement ceremony for my
rusted-out and falling-apart ancient propane gas barbecue
grill, I replaced it with my first charcoal grill in 22
years. Getting ready for the Fourth you know.

But when buying my first bag of charcoal in these same 22
years, I find that my former favorite fuel- a 20 pound bag
of Kingsford Briquets- now weighs only 18.6 pounds.

Guess I shouldn't be too surprised as a five pound bag of
sugar now weighs four pounds, a pound-bag of ground coffee
contains but 11.5 ounces and most horridly, a half-gallon
bottle of Scotch now is only 1.75 liters.

Milk and gas are next, I guess......

Buy the longer burning charcoal, use less, attain higher heat
temps. It doesn't take much charcoal to cook a steak, ribs,
prime rib beef or a 7 lb. pork butt.

We don't know your grill or how you tuned it for a long -
overnight cooks or if the bag is lump charcoal.

An OZ of pot costs more than it did in the 60's :-)


It seems you've missed my point which is sellers have reduced
long-standing and familiar standard package sizes in lieu of
raising prices ;-)

Sure, why not? They want to sell stuff, but their costs have
increased, and they know that people would squawk if prices
increased. It's capitalism in action.

Cindy Hamilton


Sure, but for 200 years rhey just increased the price. Now they
try to deceive.


There's no deception. Read the label. The weight or volume of
the contents is always displayed.

Based on your current observation of diminishing sizes,
apparently you haven't been aware of much of anything in the past
22 years.

There is a certain amount of deception as I pointed out when they
put 4 gallons of propane in a 5 gallon tank and tell you the tank
contains 16 lbs. Not too many people know the weight of a gallon
of propane.

Its somewhat deceptive too with other products like coffee in the
same size can but ground to take more space. If you don't read
labels and are familiar with weights and measures you probably
miss what they are doing.

I'm all in favor of free market capitalism but bothered that
people are ignorant of such things. Competition is better and
prices go down with an informed consumer.


If you don't read the labels, then you are the fool.

As to propane, I know what my empty tank weights. Besides that,
where I have my tanks filled they do not charge a set price for a
tank full. My empty tank is placed on the scale and stays there
until it has been filled. They charge by the weight shown of their
scale. I do geet what I pay for. If your tank isn't being filled
properly then maybe you should buy it elsewhere.

There's nothing decepetive about it. The only problem arises with
higher prices, and I suspect that will always be true and on the
increase.

+1

Wayne, you do understand your propane! A 20 lbs. tank should weight
37 lbs. when full and should contain approximately 4.7 gallons of
propane.