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Originally Posted by TAG UR IT
^Actually, that link was the exact thread I wanted to merge this too. Thanks for finding your thread.
Regarding inflation, I recall when gas was .85 cents per gallon and the cost of the cars weren't that much less expensive than they were now. That would have been in ...88?...89? Does anyone think the cost of gasoline is growing faster than the price of the average car?
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Yes the price of gas is rising fast, but you are wrong with the price of cars. Cavaliers (now Cobalt) have gone from starting at 7000 in 1988 to 15 000. Mustangs were 8 500 then and are now 19 000 base. Based off that, I think its safe to say that the price of cars has approx doulbled in the last 20 years, using that , gas would be about 1.70 but is actually around 2.60 for you (for us gas is around $1 more per gallon). But taking in stov's point that prices were artificially low then, and is artificially high right now means that the real cost of gas has not risen too much over the last 20 years