[PRCo] Re: infographic from 1941!

[Dwight Long]

Fred

Use 1962.  That way you can apply your 50 year rule and just move the 
decimal point without having to do burdensome interpolation.

At any rate, the result is the same.  Shows what the bastards have done with 
the value ???? of our money.

Dwight

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 4:56 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: infographic from 1941!


> $4 in constant dollars, not in inflated dollars.   If you mean $4 in 1941 
> dollars, I would love to see that.   We are no where near that.  Right 
> now, for example, gas is just a tad more expensive than 1958 at normal 
> inflation.
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> On Feb 8, 2012, at 4:21 PM, BobDietrich wrote:
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>> Then again in 2012/2013 when gas prices hit $4.00 or so.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org
>> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org] On Behalf Of Fred
>> Schneider
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 2:06 PM
>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: infographic from 1941!
>>
>> Wouldn't you love to see the same item in 1944 at the height of the war 
>> with
>> gas rationing and then again in 2011?
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>> On Feb 8, 2012, at 12:01 PM, Derrick Brashear wrote:
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>>> Pittsburgh Regional Planning Association noted how people got downtown 
>>> in
>> 1941:
>>> http://nullspace2.blogspot.com/2012/02/traffic-then-traffic-now.html
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Derrick
>>>
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