-=> Quoting Sondra Ball to Dennis Martin <=-
 SB> did you earn an hour then, Dad?"  Turns out 35 cents was a higher
 SB> percentage of the older man's hourly wage than the current gas price is
 SB> of the younger man's, or of the older man's also, for that matter.
 
 When gas was thirty cents a gallon, I was making fifty cents an hour, the
 minimum wage at the time. That means sixty percent of an hour's wage bought
 a gallon of gas? Around here gas is about a dollar and thirty five cents a
 gallon and the minimum wage was just hiked up to $5.75 or something? So that
 means it now only takes twenty-five percent of an hour's wage to buy a
 gallon of gas. Therefore, relative to an hour's wage, gas is cheaper now
 than it was in the "good old days".
 (And we won't even _attempt_ to calculate the tax dollars/hour/gallon.)
 Jim
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