I can remember back as a kid when gas was anywhere from $0.21 to
$0.33/gallon and it started to rise to $0.50/ gapplon plus. My Dad told
me that gas was the bet bargain in the country. He said gas prices hand
not changed much since the war (II) ant that he expected to see the
prices rise to stay up with inflation. he predicted that the gas
companies couldn't do it any other way and stay in business. He didn't
miss. Every company, large or small, must adjust prices to cover ever
increasing costs, in order to stay in business.

I hate to see it go so high, I'm on a fixed income, and somehow my
income doesn't keep pace with real inflation. So it pinches folks like
me, but not somuch for the wealthy and middle America Working class. We
have had nearly a free ride for a long time and it is catching up.

Regards,

John Rodgers
88 GL driver

Mike Collum wrote:

>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.
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>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.
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>Mike
>Houlton, Maine
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