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12-16-2015, 03:51 AM | #1 |
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Ross Perot Backs New Company
Tired of Gas Pumps. Company delivers gas to your car.
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12-16-2015, 08:51 AM | #2 |
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Wow, that seems like a crazy idea, but then again I never thought people would pay for bottled water when that concept first appeared.
Here's a link to the story John referenced above - click here My initial thought when I saw your post was to dismiss the concept because it's backed by Ross Perot but then I read that Microsoft's Paul Allen is also a backer. I have a lot of respect for Paul Allen so that opened my mind to the concept. I still have a hard time believing that the business concept would be profitable. How many gallons of fuel is a driver going to deliver in the average day and how thick is the margin? Even if the driver was able to fuel five vehicles/hour with an average fill of 20 gallons that's only 800 gallons of fuel at the end of an eight hour day. If the business was working on a 40 cent margin that's only $320 in gross profit - hardly enough to pay your driver and cover the other expenses. I've been wrong in the past but I'd bet against the success of this venture. |
12-22-2015, 09:18 AM | #3 |
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Ross Perot in the 1960s...
I was watching "Christmas through the Decades - the 1960s" last night and thought of this thread when they had a segment featuring a very young looking Ross Perot from the late 60s.
Ross Perot was already a multi-millionaire at that point and he embarked on a campaign to send Christmas packages and letters to American POWs held in Vietnam. The effort attracted a great deal of attention and thousands of Americans sent packages and letters which Perot loaded on to a chartered plane heading to Vietnam. Sadly, none of the packages or letters were ever received - the Vietnam government would not allow them to be delivered. In many ways I thought it was a well intentioned but poorly executed plan - a lot like his presidential campaign in the 1990s. |
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