It bought an hour of my labor for 10 gallons of gas. well, no, not exactly.unless you work at the gas station, someone else bought that labor. they gave you green paper and you traded that for gas.oddly, it is the money part that seems so objectionable to those insisting there is such a thing as a trade deficit.if you traded what you built with your labor for a sofa, then it is no deficit. but if y