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You also have to remember......I was in Germany 10 years ago for a few days, and they were paying the equivilant of $2 a LITER back then.....yeah sure, also had mostly to do with the tax, but I don't think we should whine too much (other than whining about the tax)......
I also remember back around 1978, during the "gas crisis", waiting on line for hours to get your allocation of 5 gallons on odd/even days dependant on your license plate, between the hours of 2 and 5 PM........and everyone beatched and moaned that the price went up to $0.65........funny, you could buy a loaf of bread back then for 3 for $1 (I know, I used to stock them on the shelves at the Super).....today, try to get a loaf of bread for less than $1.59.....and that would be the "store" brand.....a five fold increase at minimum.....so if gas did the same thing, it would be about $3.50 a gallon......
So yeah, $2 a gallon sucks, but ya gotta think of it in perspective....
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