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Originally Posted by PoorMansCamaro
And honestly, I think it's the gas that is like icing on the cake. It's bad enough that people have to spend hundreds of dollars on groceries, bills, etc. Worry about your job because of the economy, and now the rise in gas. To most people, they just have other things they need to worry about.
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Its all fun and inflation, everything goes up over time so you have to constantly adjust. Case and point $17,000 dollars in 1980 is the equivilant of about $40,000 today. The price of one thing goes up, so does 10 things behind it, then 10 more behind that. I think the point we're all trying to convey, albeit in much different ways is that gas prices shouldn't be a cause for panic but concern. Its certainly an indicator that the price of everything else will go up behind it. The money you make today might be the same dollar figure 5 years from now but it will be worth less.