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Bad title. It's not what gas cost me, but what gas costs the average American. Between having bought an Insight in '03 and moving to full-time telecommuting (and, it must be admitted, a somewhat higher than average income), I spend well under 1% of my income on gas.
Like Sid, much the same is true of my electric & heating costs: efficiency improvements have outweighed price increases. When I bought this place in '98, my electric bills were $50-60/month. Last month I saw my first sub-$40 bill (though alas, it's back up to $43 this month). And a good bit of my gas bill goes to hauling firewood for the wood stove, but it's still way better than burning 500 gallons or so of $4/gal heating oil.
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