Is this the highest gas prices have ever been...

[LostInAnomie]

... when adjusted for inflation?

I remember a few years ago when the gas prices went above $1.75 and everyone was complaining the Repuke line was "Well if you think our gas is expensive you should go to Europe. They are paying upwards of $3.00 a gallon."

Well guess what, for their $3.00 a gallon they get universal health care. What do we get?

[BrendaStarr]

1. Good point. /nt

*

[Clark2008]

2. A chimp for president.

:banghead:

[SteppingRazor]

3. Almost...

The highest ever, when adjusted for inflation, was an $85 barrel of oil and a $3.15 gallon of gas, in 1982 (or 83. Can't recall)

[NoPasaran]

6. Just wait 'til tomorrow

We'll break that record soon enough!

[MichiganVote]

4. $3.29 today

[bluestateguy]

5. We're getting there

1979-80 was still a bit higher when adjusted for inflation (these days Republicans love to throw out that Jimmy Carter bashing talking point for old times sake).

If we get to $90 oil then I think we will officially be there.

[ThomWV]

Yes It Is ---- And Fuck Inflation

The inflation comparison is only valid if incomes have kept up with the same inflation index, and they certainly have not. In fact real wages have been deflating in this country while real prices have been inflating.

[SteppingRazor]

14. Exactly.

Since wages have stagnated for more than 20 years while prices have increased, we're already paying FAR more for gas (along with nearly everything else) than any previous generation.

[Lex]

7. Cities are more spread out here and consequently we drive more miles

to get from place A to B, than in most European countries.

[ordinaryaveragegirl]

8. We get...the shaft.

Enough said!

[LuCifer]

9. We am be get all these free-dumbs...

...that the terra-ist am be hate us for!

Like no right to protest BUSHitler, no health care, no jobs that pay worth a damn, no renewable fuel alternatives to gas and oil, no free press, no veterans benefits, no marrage if you're gay, no religious freedom if you are anything that's not a WASP, no decriminalized marijuana, no votes that count thanks to DIEbold and ES&S...and on and on...OH BUT WHAT'S ON AMERIKKKAN IDOL HONEY!!!!!!!

Lu

[still_one]

10. I thought they said there was no inflation

[cornermouse]

11. Gas prices have almost doubled in 5 years.

How much do you want to bet that Greenspan finds a microphone somewhere in the near future and tells us again that this isn't inflation?

[LostInAnomie]

15. More than doubled.

I remember paying $1.10 in 200 and thinking it was ridiculous. Today, I saw a gas station in my home town selling reg. unleaded for $3.39.

[cornermouse]

12. Sorry. Accidental double post.

[leftofthedial]

13. we get to pay for halliburton's profiteering in Iraq for a few generations

we get 20% unemployment and 40% underemployment

we get raped by predatory lenders and legalized usury

we get pollution

we get our personal liberties stripped away