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Originally Posted by Varn
Yep sarcastically, I remember 35 years ago, My electric bill was 15 dollars a month and electricity was about 4 cents a KWH.
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Right. And if you account for inflation, that $15 in 1976 (the calculator I used doesn't go to 2012) is now worth $59.30, and the $0.04/KWh would now be $0.16/KWh. My bill's typically around $40, and I pay about $0.11/KWh.
Same applies to a lot of that "we weren't green back then", unless the article was written by someone well over 100. If you're talking late '50s to early '70s, as seems likely from some of the examples, people DID jump in their 300 HP cars (remember Mustang, Camaro, GTO, and the other muscle cars, not to mention family cars with 389, 409, 427, 454 cubic inch V8s?) to go short distances. They did use gas engines to mow lawns, and those engines were powered by dirty 2-cycle engines.