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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Joe,<br>
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Another way to look at any price today is this way.<br>
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Back when our currency was silver based and a quarter was about
1/5th of an oz AG, gas was anywhere from 18 to 25c / gallon. Well
if you were smart and saved all your dimes, quarters, half dollars
and silver dollars you could go down to your precious metal dealer
and sell them 5 quarters (1.25) for about 13 to 14 dollars today.
So a quarter could get you about 3$ good for about 1.5 gallons up
here in upstate NY. So if you look at it that way, gas is cheaper
today than it was in the 60's.<br>
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Just goes to show you how much our $ has fallen in 50 years.<br>
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Now, I was just in northern CA and drove on US 395 CA, and US 95
Nevada and I saw prices in the 4.50 to almost 5$ range. This was
in October. Well over double what I saw on I 40 when I got into NM
and TX.<br>
<br>
Bob<br>
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On 12/15/2015 01:18 AM, Joe Curry wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial" color="navy"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">I can remember when I
was in High School
when the local stations regularly staged “Gas Wars” and
one time it
got as low as 5 cents a gallon. That would be equivalent
to %0 cents per
gallon today.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="font-size:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial" color="navy"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Joe<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font
size="2" face="Tahoma"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> Triumphs
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:triumphs-bounces@autox.team.net">mailto:triumphs-bounces@autox.team.net</a>] <b><span
style="font-weight:bold">On
Behalf Of </span></b>Home Consolidated<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b>
Monday, December 14, 2015
9:59 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b>
Listserv Triumph<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b>
[TR] Ruminations</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size:
12.0pt">I saw $1.60 per gallon gasoline recently which
got me to thinking.
Has gas ever been this low?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size:
12.0pt">An inflation calculator. <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://inflation-calculator.com/?gclid=CIyppfb83MkCFQuLaQodnV4AOg"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://inflation-calculator.com/?gclid=CIyppfb83MkCFQuLaQodnV4AOg">http://inflation-calculator.com/?gclid=CIyppfb83MkCFQuLaQodnV4AOg</a></a> tells
me
that a buck sixty today is the same as $0.21 in 1962,
$0.27 in 1970, $0.57
in 1980, $0.90 in 1990, and $1.18 in 2000. I never
remember gas prices that
low. I remember $0.14 for a week or so during a local
gas war in the early
sixties and $0.35 was about right in the early 70's,
before the first Arab
embargo, but otherwise it seems like prices were always
a lot higher. In
2005 I remember paying north of $4.00 per on the west
coast or $4.88 today. I
was watching an old tv show (1977) and the station sign
said $0.609 or $2.13
today. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size:
12.0pt">We must be doing something right. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt">Ken Gano <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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