Price of milk

[ghoti_mhic_uait]

I was just looking into the cost of a milkman, because the price of milk in shops has risen dramatically recently (I suspect the milkman price has too). Turns out the weekly cost of having our milk delivered by a milkman is almost twice that of buying it at Waitrose. That's not quite true, because of petrol coses, but I actually mostly can be bothered to walk to Tesco/Budgens, and therefore only drive (or have shopping delivered) when I need a lot anyway.

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[eldar.livejournal.com]

My father owned an independent dairy for over twenty years; I was the de facto yard manager during the summer - which included basic maintenance of the fleet, which was mixed electric/diesel/petrol. Hence I have a pretty good working knowledge of batteries, chargers, etc.

However it's my father's opinion that milk floats aren't as green as they're made out to be* (and I guess he'd know, he would've got the electricity bills!)

* Except our milk floats were, quite literally, the greenest around. As in painted green.

[pjc50.livejournal.com]

Interesting - did you charge them during the day or at night? If they're quite expensive because of the electricity, why were they used? What happens to dead batteries (as you say, full of lead and sulphuric acid)?