Why is no one whining about gas prices anymore?

[Eug]

P.S. My 10 year-old Prius has about 145000 km on it, so only about 90000 miles so far, so I'm not driving it as hard as some people with their 50+ mile per day commutes.

 

[monkeydelmagico]

Price of gas, adjusted for inflation, is in line with expectations:

The oil companies learned their lesson. As soon as prices started going too high Americans reduced miles driven:

While not the only consumer of oil, transportation takes the lions share. Fuel efficiency impacts OPEC's bottom line

 

[Eug]

Price of gas, adjusted for inflation, is in line with expectations:

Well, look at the steep increase in the last 15 years. I betcha less than half of the posters here have even been driving that long.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Because people stopped buying SUVs and trucks for no reason and gas is effectively half price now.

 

[Renob]

I have never bitched about gas prices ever.... No point, lol and I drive a HEMI 🙂

 

[OutHouse]

Because people stopped buying SUVs and trucks for no reason and gas is effectively half price now.

what?

 

[slag]

WTF? $4.39 for Premium in my area. WTF is going on? Dammit.
Regular was $4.19.

Seriously -- WTF is causing the spike? Did someone in Iraq sneeze today?

Where do you get regular from? I see unleaded, mid grade, and premium unleaded.

Also, prices are about 80 cents cheaper in Lawrence than what you are reporting.

 

[MetalMat]

Cause we are used to it.

I still remember paying around 85 cents a gallons for gas back in 1999.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Well, look at the steep increase in the last 15 years. I betcha less than half of the posters here have even been driving that long.

Ya, the chart anchors on today. So it means gas was cheaper in the past than it is today. It would be more obvious if anchored in 1950. That chart would look SHOCKING if properly anchored.

Whoever made it is trying to trick fools into thinking that prices are in line with what they should be.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Cause we are used to it.

I still remember paying around 85 cents a gallons for gas back in 1999.

I tell my father in law that I was paying under $1 when I first moved to CT in 2001. He doesn't believe me. For some reason the thinks prices were much higher.

I even remember watching prices go from 95 cents to $1.10 occasion and I would kinda wonder what the jump was all about. It normally would just drop back to $1.

 

[ponyo]

69 cents for gallon of unleaded back in 1999 or 2000. I remember filling up with a single $10 bill and getting change back.

 

[Tweak155]

69 cents for gallon of unleaded back in 1999 or 2000. I remember filling up with a single $10 bill and getting change back.

I had this when I first started driving in 2001. $10 would fill my gas tank (10gal gas tank... small).

I remember when it hit $2 and everyone thought it was beyond crazy.

 

[MiniDoom]

I had this when I first started driving in 2001. $10 would fill my gas tank (10gal gas tank... small).

I remember when it hit $2 and everyone thought it was beyond crazy.

I rented a geo metro back then and filled it up for like $6. Tank lasted all week. 😀

 

[BarkingGhostar]

To me, the price of gasoline is like the price of drugs in the USA. We'll pay whatever as there are no alternatives to not buying. Even when we produced the product and sell it outside our own country for considerably less.

 

[brianmanahan]

amd, you obviously havent been to P&N in a while...