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Old 04-05-2022, 07:15 AM
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Originally Posted by charlie1 View Post
Read this in yesterdays parade magazine. I guess we don't have it so bad after all! We get more value from our gas, despite the cost being high, than people did in 1950.
I started college in 1962. My car at that time got 20 MPG (six cylinder stick shift Ford). My college town lived on gas wars, so I generally filled up at $0.25 - $0.30 per gallon. So compared with then, it is worse today.
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