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If my napkin math is right*, he was in college between 1951 and 1956; with gas ranging from .24 to .27 dollars a gallon.
Adjusting for inflation that’s be about $2.40.
Sunday I paid 2.90 at Costco. It seems he’s full of shit.
(My napkin math is notorious for breaking the laws of physics. Best do your own… or else we might end up dividing by zero.)
For some bizarre reason I was able to get gas at $2.05 on Monday.
The next day it was back to $2.92.
Must have been a weird price war between a handful of stations that day.
Or someone messed up programming the machine.
But still, that’s a score.
I checked around and about half the gas stations in the area were around $2.05 and half were around $2.90.
It's possible one was accidentally set and a bunch of other gas stations price matched (possibly automatically?)
or it was cut with water
I've noticed that a common sign of dementia is thinking gas costs what it did decades ago. My step dad would be sent in to pay for gas and he'd come back thinking $10 was more than enough to fill the tank. This was when gas was $4+ a gallon.
Chuck's math is 25¢ a gallon. As you point out that is right about the price it was when he was in his prime. His post isn't just about lying for Trump. It's about mental decline.
You may be asking why my step dad with dementia was being sent in unattended to pay for gas when you could pay at the pump. Denial by his primary caregiver was also a factor. Make him do as many normal things as possible and then be shocked when they didn't work out.
Gas price ranges are huge by what area you're in. You may have paid $2.90, but I paid $2.15. there's a few areas in other states that I know are under $2.00. California probably mostly over $3.00.
It was 1953 @ $0.25/gal. The CPI puts that at $3.00 in 2025 dollars. So literally the exact price.
... now taking into account purchasing power, since earnings did not keep up with inflation he was still much better than us.