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I drove 45 minutes one-way to high school during my junior and senior years in '93-'95. Gas cost .99/1.09/1.19 during that time. It was fifty miles per day, in
by euroclydon 13y ago
I drove 45 minutes one-way to high school during my junior and senior years in '93-'95. Gas cost .99/1.09/1.19 during that time. It was fifty miles per day, in the mountains, and I got about 15MPG. So that's about $3/day or $15/week. Now it would cost nearly $12/day or $60/week.
- VLM 13y agoLuckily minimum wage has gone from $4.25/hr to $7.25/hr to keep up as expenses quadrupled. Err, um...
- Kurtz79 13y agoIt would be interesting to know how much the average income has increased, more than minimum wage, and the effect of inflation on other prices would also be useful. I'm not saying that it would lead to a different conclusion, but just that it's data you can't ignore when comparing prices across a 20 years span.
- freehunter 13y agoIf you change "increased" to "decreased", you can find this info pretty easy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Median_US_household_income.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Median_US_household_income... If you're looking for personal income rather than household income, there's a graph for that as well. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6c/Historical_median_personal_income_by_education_attainment_in_the_US.png http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6c/Historical_med...
- dspeyer 13y agoI don't think it's all about money. I live in NYC in large part to avoid driving. If I moved to Kirkland the lower rent would easily pay to lease, fuel, insure and maintain a luxury car, with cash left over. I'm staying here. So are my 8 million neighbours.