Look at the price of gas this way

You know I was thinking this morning about the price of gas and where it might go and where it has been. And in relationship to the cost of some other things.

When I first started driving about 21 years ago I lived in Florida....... Gas was around .99 a gal. back then. As of this morning the national avg. is still under 4.25/gal. But I will used $4.25 for the resting point for now. Using .99/gal then and 4.25/gal now....... That ONLY works out to an increase of about .15/gal per year for the last 21 years. The percentage of increase over that time frame is high. But is it really that much higher then what everything else around us has gone up? I think not. I mean in some housing markets even now with the housing down turn you have people that have seen those kinds of increases in their housing values. The only reason that it seems so bad at this point is because the gas price increase has for the most part taken place with in the last two years. I mean it was only about 2 years ago I remember being able to by gas for around $1.35 /gal. Those days are for sure long gone LOL.