You probably don't want to hear this .... but .... the price of gasoline
today is really not all that much different than it was in the mid 50s ...
when adjusted for inflation.

Back then, I had a minimum wage job (50� per hour) and gas, in west Texas,
was 24.9 per gallon.  I could get 2 gallons of gas for 1 hour's work.

Mike
Houlton, Maine