<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/3319924263/" title="Mecca Coffee Company by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3625/3319924263_551b86a1ac.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="Mecca Coffee Company" /></a></div><br />Love coffee? Me too. As with food, I enjoy coffee best when someone else makes it for me, and especially if I'm being served coffee in a mismatched mug in some cute, moody little coffee house somewhere.<br /><br />Problem is, in this here town, a standard 12-ounce cup of black, coffee house coffee costs about $2. Swig one of those every day of the month and you have practically another utility bill on your hands, with nothing to show for it except pampered taste buds and a circular file with coffee breath, constantly full of cup sleeves and stirrers.<br /><br />Here's another idea: Make your own coffee, and keep the change.<br /><br />Read the rest of this story in Consumer Watchdog in <a href="http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A27930">this week's edition of Urban Tulsa Weekly</a>.