[2ndDivisionVet]

When did $300,000 become a starter home? When did bacon start going for $6-10 a package? Why does a gallon of milk cost more than a gallon of fuel?

[eyedigress]

How much did a gallon of milk cost in 1972?

[Bill93]

“When did $300,000 become a starter home?”

Probably, when somebody decided to build it in California. My mother’s small two bedroom house in a bad neighborhood cost her 400k, and in a state that everyone is rushing to leave at that.

[Dr. Sivana]

Why does a gallon of milk cost more than a gallon of fuel?

That's not a problem. When gasoline was $1.09 in the early '80s, Milk was a $1.59/gallon, and that was AFTER big gasoline price increases. The price of milk has not gone up nearly as fast or as much as the price of gasoline. Given that it has to kept frsh and the milk "wells" (i.e. cows)only hold a few gallons, and the labor cannot really be outsourced or exported, milk SHOULD cost more than gasoline. The problem was the last few summers when it was the other way around.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***When did bacon start going for $6-10 a package?***

I just found an old newspaper from 1964. Bacon was 45 cents a pound at the local store.