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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mikem2000, post: 1791813, member: 30574&quot;]Average cost per gallon of reg gas on 9/24/2009 was $3.70 gallon.&nbsp; Today it is $3.49.&nbsp; Obvious it did not double.&nbsp; In addition the car manufactueres have made great strides in MPG in the last five years so as long as you are driving a car that is comparable in weight and HP, that should have freed up a bunch of sheckels also.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>For food, yes that is up considerbly last 5 years, but Food is pulled out of the numbers for a reason.&nbsp; It is volitile, so while it is certainly up and we feel it, but you forget to count how it went down like 30% the preceding years.&nbsp; Food needs to be averaged long term because of the volitility.&nbsp; I just picked an item out of thin air and used milk because that seems like a standard.&nbsp; Price of milk in 1990 was $2.15.&nbsp; In 2013 it is $3.49.&nbsp; I did the math and it worked out to 2.1 % inflation over 23 years.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>For other things, home appliances, consumer electronics, they seem stable or have gone down.&nbsp; For services, I have seen that tick up, but not drastically</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Now of course you can cherry pick the product or cherry pick the time frame, which is usually what the charlatans do and come up with any numbers you like, but that is not what I did. I used your time frame for gas, picked milk out of thin air and just chose a big time frame.&nbsp; I telling you flat up, eveyone needs to think more on their own, do their own research, and stop listening to the scheisters.&nbsp; they just want to fill your head with garbage and separate you from your dollars.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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