“What radicalized you?”
“The Nakatomi Plaza disaster.”
Pearl Harbor radicalized me
So true, king.
I remember paying about $1.25 USD per gallon when I first started driving. I remember my parents and grandparents talking about how expensive it had gotten. I asked very naively “how much was it before it ‘got expensive’?” and I think they said it had been about 75 cents for a long time. I might be misremembering that, but whatever the response was, it seemed far cheaper. Evidence that capitalism is doomed to failure is that it took less than 3 decades for the lifeblood of society to increase in price basically 500%.
When I started, it was also $1.25 (1996), but what was weird was this brief moment when it was $0.89. Trying to remember why, but I think it was following 9/11 and was after the price gouging started and the govt started going after gas stations.
Or just the fact how we are still in the same place as 30 yeas ago, using gas just to burn it up, no progress at all (actually the opposite of that).
And also that the capital gains are just ridiculous, our true rulers.
Regular gas contained lead, so not quite the same.
My gen z brain was wondering why the prices were so high
Millennial here who should know better, and same.
A bit disingenuous considering that’s about $2 today with inflation. Not too much higher than the norm before the current…“extenuating circumstances”.
The regular would be $2.17 a gallon specifically.
But the gas station has cut its staff to 1 worker, and they make the same non-adjusted wage as the workers in 1988.
That much is true, though outside the scope of the meme. Someone getting radicalized by watching Die Hard has already overlooked that for decades.
I mean I think the inflation part is what radicalized them
Not a driver and not American.
What does that 9/10 mean?
9/10th of a cent. It’s incredibly stupid.
It started out because of tacked on government tax and has persisted because it visually looks a cent cheaper at a glance.
Regular and Unleaded. Was leaded gas still a thing in 1988? I thought it was long gone by then, but I was a first grader, so wasn’t paying that much attention at the gas station.
I just googled and it was still a thing. 1973 was the start of the phaseout, 1975 it became illegal for new cars, and it was fully banned for road use in 1996.
You can still get a lead substitute add in for gas if your car really needs it.
You can still get leaded gas if you want to run on a racetrack too.
The lowest I ever paid for gas was in 1996 at a Casey’s in Nebraska. .84 cents.
Jeez. I recall prices like $1.47 and $1.65 in the same year (or close to it). That’s cheap.
I think I was paying about 1.25 in ~1999, but that was in a po-dunk town.
In the 90s you still had sub $1.00 gas.
What are these freedom units?
