No - but I would give my left nut to go back to the days that gas was 1.05 a gallon, when I was making only $19.00 an hour with excellent health benefits and rent, including paid utilities were only $500 a month. Basically, you can blame a lot of the current energy situation, worldwide, on assholes who feel like they are ENTITLED to drive 350hp giant SUVs everyday everywhere for anything. -WaV
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Philip L Moss <philipm...@juno.com> wrote: > Do you want your income to revert to what it was when gas was $0.699/gal. > also? Personally, I find it less painful to fill up today than I did in the > mid-1970s. > > BTW - gas prices in some places in the US in 1906 was $1.06/gallon. > Inflation calculators say that is equivalent to over $25/gal. in 2008 > dollars. 1906 was the first year anyone drove from coast to coast in the US > and it the trip cost about $8,000 in 1906 dollars (fuel, food, maintenance, > and a mechanic's salary for the trip). There is a movie called "Horatio's > Drive" about the trip. Energy prices have been high before, just not much > in living memory. > > BTW - we do have subsidized gas prices in the US. There are numerous tax > breaks specifically for oil companies, their waste is never treated as > expensively as the same waste from other industries, and I don't believe > that the American people are getting fair market royalties for oil produced > from public lands. > > Philip L. Moss > philipm...@juno.com > > Louise Power <power_lou...@hotmail.com> writes: > > >snip< > Yipes! I remember when I thought I was being ripped off at $0.699/gal. > Gimme back those days!!! > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > Paralegal Scholarship - Click > Now!<http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2142/fc/Ioyw6i3oICiLm0XB7pSJ1wnWLbfX3gH3ezJkfg41qRSLq5GGirl2WL/> >
