Ugh is right. Fuel costs for a wheel of cheese would have been lost in the noise, financially speaking. This is the point SSTO advocates have been making over

Ugh is right. Fuel costs for a wheel of cheese would have been lost in the noise, financially speaking. This is the point SSTO advocates have been making over the years - putting things into orbit costs a lot of money, not because of the energy required, but because you throw the space ship away.