When I was a cash strapped graduate student at University of Iowa, I owned this Buick Super, with a straight 8 engine, yielding 5 mpg in city!
Thanks to the gas wars in Iowa City, gas was 10 cents/gal!
So even I could afford to drive that big automobile.
My folks raised a family, bought homes and did the American dream well on ONE income. Try that in Middle America today.
We’ve been looted and robbed.