If you consider inflation over this period from 1974... $1.00 in 1974 had the same buying power as $5.04 in 2014.
Some of the new hybrid cars nowadays does 60 plus per gallon.
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Originally Posted by Riggodeaux
Thanks, Daka, for making me fee [relatively] young. When I started driving in the early seventies, before the 1974 oil crisis, gas was maybe 50 cents a gallon, and our VW Karmann Ghia convertible would get 30 plus miles on that fifty cents ....
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