<VV> Gas Price Question - Slight Corvair

[Roger Gault]

See
http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl
for an inflation calculator.
$.30 gasoline in 1964 is $1.94 in 2006 dollars.

One graph of gas prices in constant dollars is at
http://oregonstate.edu/Dept/pol_sci/fac/sahr/gasol.htm
It shows that gas  prices were about the same in constant dollars in
1980-81.

Roger

PS:  Austin, TX gas prices today Reg =  $2.69, Prem = $2.89.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob & Kathy Gilbert" <bgilbert at redshift.bc.ca>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>; <corvairs at cybrus.net>
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 9:44 PM
Subject: <VV> Gas Price Question - Slight Corvair


> Hi,
>
>
>
> Just curious: has anybody out there in Corvair land sat down and
calculated
> what fuel costs were on a cost per mile basis back in say '66 (my car's
> year) vs. now in equivalent dollars?
>
>
>
> As bad as multi-dollar per gallon (heck even dollar plus per liter here in
> Canada!) gas sounds I wonder if it is really that much worse than say 40
> years ago once you factor in inflation and use some constant metric such
as
> cost per mile?
>
>
>
> I'd do it but I don't know what the rate of inflation has been
cumulatively
> over the last 40 years. Are there any economists out there with access to
> this information?
>
>
>
> Bob
>
> 66 180
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