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To: weegee
All the price stuff is silly. The US had a GDP per capita of $2,500 in 1955.

Now it is 44,200.

If gas was 29c a gallon in 1955, then it should be $5.12 now to have the same impact.

20 posted on 01/24/2008 2:26:08 PM PST by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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To: wideawake

The year isn’t over yet.


21 posted on 01/24/2008 2:27:34 PM PST by awakened (Remember -- There are no dead atheists.)
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To: wideawake

Alternate travel. NYC fare 5 cents, today $2.00.


45 posted on 01/24/2008 2:52:35 PM PST by ex-snook ("Above all things, truth beareth away the victory.")
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