"Gas prices shave NOT hit record levels yet"
Oh don't give us that unmittigated B.S. about "when you adjust for inflation" because a lot of us were not old enough to be driving in 1973 and don't give two S--TS what gas prices were then. We care what we are paying now and it's rising to ridiculous levels.
I don't give two shits what gas cost in 1973 either. But I do care about accuracy and honesty.
You could be paying $6.70 a gallon in Norway. Gas is still cheap by historic standards. Be glad you're living in America.
Take a chill pill. You have no qualms about $50,000 SUVs, but the best cars of 1973 topped out at about seven grand, and a really nice house went for less than $80,000.
Of course, in those old days, we ancient people actually saved money until we could afford stuff and didn't run out and get ourselves nostril deep in hock.
I have watched my paycheck disappear (I'm a wellsite geologist, just in from another well) while Americans were practically cartwheeling around the gas pumps over cheap prices while drilling rigs sat rusting in the weeds.
Sooner or later, you pay for it, if the prices then had supported continued exploration we would not be in a crunch now.
A large part of this goes squarely on the heads of all the enviros who ever stopped a refinery from being built, or helped have one close down, too.
Some of us over the age of adolescnce remember Carter's era of gov't. regulated product distribution; causing hour long lines at the gas pump. Maybe you could go back to your Game Boy and watch MTV to keep your mind off of these evil times.
BTW, have you ever heard of things like war, depression, Clinton and Carter?