I couldnt believe the gas prices in the scene when Charlie gets his ass kicked by the softball team at the gas station, $1.17!!! Those were the days.
shareTry 87 cents in Die Hard, when Al the cop looks over his shoulder at the Nakatomi building.
shareInflation - it's real!
shareLOLOLOL...i noticed that, too!!!
Gas had been at around $1.70 or lower recently, though. Going back up again...
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Those were probably accurate too. I don't recall seeing them changing the price for the shoot.
shareI remember at the time when the movie was filmed gas was around $1.30-1.40 in SE Washington State, God I miss the days of inexpensive gas
shareYou should all consider yourselfs lucky that you don't have a greedy ass government like we do in the Netherlands. The gas prices over here are around €1,50 per litre which is about 1/4 of a gallon.
shareWork this out then In the uk petrol garage charge by the litre. So roughy the uk is paying around. £4.50 -£5 to the gallon of petrol. So in dollers it works out to be around $8 to the gallon we paying, I filled my car up last night for £50. would work around $81.33 at the current exhange rate...
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shareSocialism really makes a living expensive then. Goverment needs several times the funds to return a social service than a private company.
shareMakes me feel old already, lol. I began driving in the mid 90's and it was like 95 cents a gallon. Could fill up my truck on a 20 dollar bill.
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Yep...the instant I saw those gas prices my mind started wandering to how much more buying power a buck had back in the '90s than it does today. So much so that I stopped paying attention to the movie. $.99 medium Frosties at Wendy's. 11.5oz bags of Sunchips for $2.50 at Walmart (now they've shrunk them to 7oz and charge $3.29+!!!). And of course that $1.13/gallon gas. 9/11 happened and those gas prices shot up, never to return. We're being silently robbed by inflation, especially now that they don't pay us SHIT on our savings accounts.
shareit dont mean shit , because you are being payed more too. thats inflation.
btw, gas is about $8.00 here now.
Gas & food prices have gone up way faster than wages have in the U.S.
shareyeah , but probly not as much as you think - it looks worse than it is due to nostalgia etc .
I'm sure there will be some economics site with the actual figures.
Nostalgia? I remember how much I was paid in the year 2000, and I know how much I'm paid now. It doesn't make up for the fact that gas prices have essentially tripled in that same time period & food prices have at least doubled. House prices (the biggest purchase most people will make) have also doubled, tripled or even quadrupled depending on the area. And as I said before, adding to the hurt is the insultingly low interest rates we're being paid on our savings these days compared to back then when you could get 5%+. Today you get less than half of that (which is actually GOOD compared to the last few years of zero percent interest rates) and after taxes and inflation is accounted for you're actually losing money. This is what happens when the gov't blows one asset bubble after the next, increasing the money supply in the process to make it look like the economy is stronger than it actually is.
shareSad.
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