<VV> Gas Price Question - Slight Corvair

[John Maxwell]

Here's the deal- Today an average car costs about 10,000 gallons of gas.
Can you remember the price of cars and gasoline at some point in time?  I
remember the early 70's when gas was 45 cents and an average new car was
going for about $4500 which is, guess what, about 10,000 gallons of gas.
All I can say is, about 4-5 years ago when gas bottomed out at about
$1.00/gallon, that was a hell of a deal.

John Maxwell

> -----Original Message-----
> From: virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org
> [mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org]On Behalf Of Bob & Kathy
> Gilbert
> Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 9:45 PM
> To: virtualvairs at corvair.org; corvairs at cybrus.net
> 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
>
>
>
>
>
>  _______________________________________________
> This message was sent by the VirtualVairs mailing list, all
> copyrights are the property
> of the writer, please attribute properly. For help,
mailto:vv-help at corvair.org
This list sponsored by the Corvair Society of America,
http://www.corvair.org/
Post messages to: VirtualVairs at corvair.org
Change your options: http://www.vv.corvair.org/mailman/options/virtualvairs
 _______________________________________________