by Rick Lowe

I just read an interesting article by John K. Teahen Jr titled What price gasoline? Who cares?

He notes:

When I started to drive, back in the adolescence of the horseless carriage, gasoline was 16 to 20 cents a gallon. Now it’s $2.80 to $2.90 in my neighborhood. But remember, in my boyhood, a family lived quite comfortably on an annual income of, say, $4,000 a year.

Example: Tuition at the private high school I attended in the 1940’s was $135 a year. Today, it’s $7,000.

The point of the piece was that people will adjust: They will buy smaller, more fuel efficient vehicles and the automotive manufacturers will respond in various ways to meet customer demands.

As he says about the noise from the politicians et al: "Enough aready!"