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Old 09-13-2012, 10:00 AM   #20 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by redpoint5 View Post
I do appreciate new ways of looking at data, but why compare fuel prices to an artificial wage floor?
Because inflation numbers can be skewed as well, so why not compare it to a figure like how much you can get for an hour of work? and other peoples wages tend to be based off minimum wage as well so I thought I would put that out there as another reference point, partly because a while back someone pointed out that the amount of energy that the average person uses every day is 100 times more then a single person can put out, a quarter HP or around 200 watts, so I think it's really reasonable to put fuel in to a term of how much you have to work to get it because in turn it does work for you.
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