Trouble Maker Posted April 6, 2005 Report Share Posted April 6, 2005 Ben, simply math doesn't do anything. Gas prices have been steady for the past 19 years until recently, adjusted for inflation. This graph shows gas prices adjusted to 1979 money. http://www.randomuseless.info/gasprice/gasprice.png You can kind of 'ignore' what happened prior to that on the graph because it was during the gas crisis. I'll actually go look for a graph that goes back before then, because I bet it was the same before that too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
copperhead Posted April 6, 2005 Report Share Posted April 6, 2005 Originally posted by satan: 25% of $5.00 = $1.25 $5.00 - $1.25 = $3.75 just using your math buddy. look at inflation cigarettes were $0.05/pack gas was $0.05/gal now cigarettes are $3.50ish/pack gas should be X we'll use cross-multiplication for you. it is easier. i'll even show the work so you can follow. $0.05<font color=white>kkkkk</font color>$3.50 -----<font color=white>kk</font color>x<font color=white>kk</font color>----- $0.05<font color=white>kkkkk</font color>X $0.05 x X = $0.05 x $3.50 $0.05X = $0.175 X = $3.50 whether you agree with it or not, it is completely true. no opinions, no politics, nothing. just inflation and math. real easy to figure out. we need better public transportation. Eric argues here: **white "k"s used for spacingIf that math where to hold true across the country, then gas would be $9 a gallon in NYC. The problem is that you aren't accounting for the difference in taxes. In Ohio, gas tax is 40.4 cents a gallon. The ciggarette tax I am unsure of, but I'm pretty sure that here at least it's around or over a dollar a pack. Either way, that's not a fair comparison. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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