The Wall Street Journal had a good article and leters about gas prices this week.
Cyril Morong
April 6, 2004
Commentary (U.S.)
Gas Panic
By JERRY TAYLOR and PETER VAN DOREN
The hysteria is building. Newspapers and television news broadcasts scream that gasoline prices today are higher than
nd without federal and state excise taxes, gasoline prices would be only slightly higher than in 1955 and considerably lower than in 1981.
Salvatore Lazzari-Economist-Germantown, Md.
Messrs. Taylor and Van Doren evaluate the real price of gasoline in a historical context, concluding that current
