How much is your local "Trump at the Pump Tax?"

If goods are priced at the percentage of the basic wage, not the average because the mega high income earners make the sort of money that distorts those figures, then a comparison of cost to earnings gives a better perspective of how the economy is really travelling now compared to back when ever

I'm wondering if any of the fuel costs will really matter soon, unless you own a vehicle in that magic yr range where you can still buy parts and the average garage or back yarder can do the repairs.
Because manufacturers won't pay proper rates for warranty repairs, most skilled auto techs have walk away from the trade they loved and into more industrial level fitter positions, because those positions pay for ever hr you work.
It's worth taking a look at how many vehicles are sitting in the dealers workshop storage area because they have no mechanics to fix them, or no techs with the required skill level to fix them .....

T1 Terry

 

We don't seem to mind licensing SECOND Amendment rights -eh?

 

Except when it does. As I close in on 70 I have several times run into the situation where I last purchased an item (or type of item) 15 or 20 years before, and have not paid any attention to it since. It can be quite disconcerting when shopping for the item now to find the price adjusted by all the intervening inflation.

Much like when you have two friends from college, one of whom you still see frequently, and one of whom you only see again after 40 years. They will both have accumulated the same amount of aging (more or less) but the amount of change for the second one will seem extreme, as the old face is being compared to a much younger version, whereas for the first friend the comparison is to an only slightly younger face.