The Price of Gas
Interesting chart.
Stuart at Randomuseless.Info kept a record of the price per gallon for the last 26 years and presents it as a graph. He also includes the overall USA City Average numbers and the two track pretty well.
What is interesting is that the third line is the data adjusted for inflation.
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He provides the raw data if you want to play around with it yourself.
Right now, at $2.80/gallon, we are effectively paying $0.90 in 1979 dollars.
In 1979, gas was $0.80/gallon but quickly rose to over $1.30/gallon.
Carter was president from 1977 through 1981 so this was on his watch.
Under Ronald Regan, prices stabilized and began a decline. They have been holding quite stable up until recently.
Posted by DaveH at August 25, 2005 5:07 PM
