'Politics makes strange bedfellows,' and there are people in favor of high
gas prices for totally disparate reasons. For example, auto-haters and oil
tycoons.
Any comparison of then vs. now must fail because... that was then and this
is now. Inflation does not apply equally to all goods and services; the
comparison between pop stars' gowns and gas prices is strictly coincidental.
Prices of food, housing and clothes have escalated recently, but crops are
grown farther away and clothes are made abroad for pennies by sweatshop
labor, so nowadays transportation and thus fuel prices are a bigger
consideration in the equation.
The bottom line is that quality of life in these here US of A is dropping;
apathy and greed are on the rise. Maybe there's a correlation.
--Roger van Hoy, Washougal, WA, '55 DeSoto, '58 DeSoto, '56 Plymouth, '66
Plymouth, '41 Dodge
----- Original Message -----
From: "eastern sierra Adj Services" <esierraadj@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2008 10:46 AM
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] gas prices
There have been some discusions about current World affairs, over on the
forwardlook.net website's General Discussion, including my own
instigated "Runnin on Empty" thread, which y'all can read and even
post-on.
The gist of one of my 'thoughts' was that a rent CNN article on a
Supremes' gown cost $2K in mid 60's and that that gown, today , would
cost around $23K.
Some quik math, and an inflation rate of 13-times is reached,
Dividing 4-buk Chuck gas-price by 13 produces a mid-60's gas price of
about 31cents!!!
Todays 'gas-guzzlers' get 20+ mpg but have very little scheduled
maintenance like the 50's/60's cars did, for tires/batteries/tune-ups/
parts/etc, and 'we' are not buying new cars, routinely, about every 3-4
years, as was common, in 'the-day'.
As a PM, Mark, I dropped your name, on the Tulsarama Board, in Re: to
offering the Videographer big-bux for his vault-muddy street shoes, on
WED, after he video'ed the car, after the lids were first removed (and
showed us his State-Secret unedited video OF the car, inside the vault).
Neil Vedder
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