Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 18:32:33 -0700
Reply-To: Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Gasoline $$ :-(
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Yeah, my experience was similar. In 1969 when I got my first real "job" (just over broke) as a newly minted college grad, I made $6500/year as a bench chemist. That's $38k/year today. Guess what? There has been no real wage growth since 1969!
Stuart
Quit being a chemist in 1976
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From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Dave Mcneely
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 1:19 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Gasoline $$ :-(
Well, things change, don't they? I drove my mother's Rambler American to commute to college in the 1960s. Gas was $0.18 per gallon, the car got 25 mpg, excellent for the time. A ten gallon fill up cost $1.80. The fifty mile round trip required 2 fill ups a week, making the gas for my commute $3.60 for the week.
My college tuition for a semester was $50, books cost $3-5 a pop, and I could get lunch in the college cafeteria for $1.25.
I could take my date to dinner at a decent place plus a movie for $8. Beer was $1.50 a six pack, or $1.10 if one was willing to brave the wrong side of the river (but that $0.40 mattered to me and my compadres of the time).
Of course, I worked for $1.25 an hour refueling airplanes.
mcneely
---- Tom Hargrave <thargrav@HIWAAY.NET> wrote:
> I remember when I could drive to work all week for less then $13.00!
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> Thanks, Tom Hargrave
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> Behalf Of Rob
> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 12:32 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Gasoline $$ :-(
>
> On the way home from work last night I stopped for gas, had $13 in my
> wallet. That put 3 gallons in my bus @ $4.259 ea...
> Sad times but still glad gas is available.
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>
> Rob
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