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Gas Prices in the 1970s

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Scottelly
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Re: Gas Prices in the 1970s
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larryj wrote:

A fill up was under $7.00 on the 20 gallon gas tank!

and a new Porsche cost $4,000.

. . . and I remember my mom telling me back then that a good income was $20,000 per year, which was what an airline pilot or an engineer might make at that time. Today a new Porsche costs around $100,000, but an airline pilot or engineer doesn't make $500,000 (more like half that or less). We can see how society has "progresse" by affordability of vehicles, homes, food . . . and, of course, gas. It seems to me that society hasn't progressed, but regressed, since just about all things have become more expensive.

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