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Old 01-25-2016, 12:56 AM   #16 (permalink)
jamesqf
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Originally Posted by The donkey CRX View Post
I started driving a VW beetle in 1967. It had a 10 gallon tank and gas was around 25 cents a gallon. As long as I owned it, I was never able to put over 3 dollars worth of gas in it a one time
Well, $3 in 1967 is $21.29 today (per Inflation Calculator: Bureau of Labor Statistics ), and now I can't get $20 worth in my Insight's 10 gallon tank. And I can go maybe twice as far as that Beetle on 10 gallons- roughly 700 miles.
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