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hunter

(40,601 posts)

10. There have been times in my life when the price of gas is negligible...

Reply to Norbert (Original post)

Mon Mar 2, 2026, 06:20 PM

Monday

... and times when it has been unaffordable.

For a few years when I was a young man I could fill the tank of my little Toyota for less than an hour's wages.

I greatly abused that privilege, driving all over the Western United States and the Northern border regions of Mexico.

The price of gas doesn't matter to me now but I'm not driving more. I figure I've burned more than my fair share.

In a better world we'd be rebuilding our cities, turning them into attractive affordable places where car ownership was unnecessary and most people wouldn't have to worry about the price of gasoline.