Friday, June 6, 2008

Way back when

Going through some old photos and found this one, taken on a drive to Florida in December 1987.

Granted, gas was always cheaper down south. And I assume this struck us as especially cheap even for then (we don't usually take photos of gas signs on our vacations). But 21 years isn't that long of a time, yet it's almost impossible to remember this expense being almost a full 5th of what it is now. 

3 comments:

Crispin H. Glover said...

WHen I was still attending Loyola, way back in the dusty late 90s, there was a station on the way to Ellicott City that was typically around .98 or .99. And that was only a decade ago. What other consumable has increased 4x in a decade? It's bizarre. The only good thing about it is that it may be the tipping point that leads to a new era of slightly less conspicuous comsumption although i'm not holding my breath.

Listmaker said...

i'm thinking if we take over iran, it will make all of these problems go away.

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