Thread: Gas prices going up again!

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Originally Posted by Evolvo

It's Spring/Summer, vacation time, time to hit the road. Prices for fuel have gone up at this time of year forever, it's like an American tradition.

My first job pumping gas in 1967. I was making min wage, $1.25 hour, gas cost $.23 gallon. So .23/1.25=18.4% of my hourly wage bought a gallon of gas.

So now gas has shot up to $2.93 gallon. If I'm making $25 per hour that formula looks like this. 2.93/25=11.72% of my wage buys a gallon of gas.

The price to wage ratio has dropped by 6.38%, gas has never been this cheap!!

Yeah, if you make $25 an hour!
Gas jumped 50¢ a gallon in two weeks here in So. Florida. It's not unexpected. What's unexpected is the news hasn't been flooded with gloom and doom about rising gas prices. Interesting...

Hey guys: Remember all the money we spent to build the Alaskan pipeline to save us from depending on foreign oil? Yeah it all to to Japan.