Well now that we are enlightened The average family burns about a 1000 kwh of electricity. Probably eats twice as much food as in the 60's
Around here the average car is a truck or SUV 4wd with 300 hp. Kids don't walk or bike to school but pile in mom's vehicle and ride the 2 blocks. The flat head briggs push mower of the 60's has become the riding mower of today.
My first car was a AH Sprite, went to a Toyota, Renault, Austin Healey another Renault. Just over 300 HP for the 5.
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Originally Posted by jamesqf
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.
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