or that's bullshit.

in 1980 gas was 75 cents, yes. but guess what, the minimum wage was like 3 dollars an hour. today it's more like 15 and gas is 3-4.

or we could go by median income, which was 17K in 1980 and is 80K today.

gas has always been cheap and still is cheap in america. esp if you compare it to say the cost in Canada. our entire national and international policy is all about supporting cheap gasoline for almost three generations now.

you have never once in your life seen actually expensive gas. for it to be legit expensive, it would have to be closer to 10 dollars a gallon, and maybe then you'd see people stop driving monster trucks that get 15-20mpg and shift back to small sedans that get 30-40+. i drive a car car that gets 45mpg, so gas prices going from 3-5 bucks a gallon has basically zero affect on me, because I'm not blowing through 25 gallons of it per week, more like 3 gallons, so my gas costs went from about $10 a week to $15.

the reason toyota/honda etc got popular in the 70s was gas prices went up and people started buying smaller cheaper cars to compensate, instead of polluting landboats they drove most of the 60s and 70s that got like 12mpg and had 20+ gallon gas tanks.