Hybrid owners...read it and smile!
#13
Re: Hybrid owners...read it and smile!
My guess is 23 9/10 + tax and 28 9/10 + tax. Tax wasn't included in the posted prices in those days but tax was just another penny at most.
#14
Re: Hybrid owners...read it and smile!
Just goes to show...
Even taking inflation and tax into account (so .30), that's $1.57 in today's dollars. I wish....
http://www.bankofcanada.ca/en/rates/inflation_calc.html
Dang
Even taking inflation and tax into account (so .30), that's $1.57 in today's dollars. I wish....
http://www.bankofcanada.ca/en/rates/inflation_calc.html
Dang
#15
Re: Hybrid owners...read it and smile!
Just goes to show...
Even taking inflation and tax into account (so .30), that's $1.57 in today's dollars. I wish....
http://www.bankofcanada.ca/en/rates/inflation_calc.html
Dang
Even taking inflation and tax into account (so .30), that's $1.57 in today's dollars. I wish....
http://www.bankofcanada.ca/en/rates/inflation_calc.html
Dang
#16
Re: Hybrid owners...read it and smile!
Gas inflation, has been significantly lower than most other daily purchases.
People spend far more on talking on phones, watching television, drinking coffee or water than they do on gas.
Gas has been one of the least expensive commodities for the last 40-50 years.
On top of that, fuel efficiency (cars getting double the mileage than they did 30 years ago) has reduced the effective cost of gas.
In the 60's a can of Coca Cola at the vending machine was 10 cents. It's now $1.00
So if gas was 28 cents in the 60s versus today's ~$3.00 gallon, we really can't complain.
People spend far more on talking on phones, watching television, drinking coffee or water than they do on gas.
Gas has been one of the least expensive commodities for the last 40-50 years.
On top of that, fuel efficiency (cars getting double the mileage than they did 30 years ago) has reduced the effective cost of gas.
In the 60's a can of Coca Cola at the vending machine was 10 cents. It's now $1.00
So if gas was 28 cents in the 60s versus today's ~$3.00 gallon, we really can't complain.
#17
Re: Hybrid owners...read it and smile!
Gas inflation, has been significantly lower than most other daily purchases.
People spend far more on talking on phones, watching television, drinking coffee or water than they do on gas.
Gas has been one of the least expensive commodities for the last 40-50 years.
On top of that, fuel efficiency (cars getting double the mileage than they did 30 years ago) has reduced the effective cost of gas.
In the 60's a can of Coca Cola at the vending machine was 10 cents. It's now $1.00
So if gas was 28 cents in the 60s versus today's ~$3.00 gallon, we really can't complain.
People spend far more on talking on phones, watching television, drinking coffee or water than they do on gas.
Gas has been one of the least expensive commodities for the last 40-50 years.
On top of that, fuel efficiency (cars getting double the mileage than they did 30 years ago) has reduced the effective cost of gas.
In the 60's a can of Coca Cola at the vending machine was 10 cents. It's now $1.00
So if gas was 28 cents in the 60s versus today's ~$3.00 gallon, we really can't complain.
There is an example of an industry that has to have brought in huge efficiencies in order to keep fares as low as they do.
Unfortunately some of those efficiencies include the Wal-Mart effect, poor wages for employees.
Last edited by Sooty; 03-02-2008 at 11:57 AM.
#18
Re: Hybrid owners...read it and smile!
And computers, TV sets yada yada yada.
#19
Re: Hybrid owners...read it and smile!
The 9/10 is correct, of course, but those prices did include tax. There was also a "gas war" in the area at the time so the prices were depressed.