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In June of this year, I paid 40 bolivianos for a litre of gasoline — about $4.10 per litre, or roughly $15.60 a gallon. The official price at the pump was 6.98 (roughly $0.72 a litre, or about $2.70 a gallon). But there was no gasoline at the pump — there hadn't been for days — and I had cherry sitting in sacks on a hillside above Caranavi that needed to reach our wet mill before it started fermenting in the bag. Coffee doesn't negotiate. Ripe cherry gives you hours, not days