Re: gasoline prices 1949-1999

[Don Coombs <mushroom@moscow.com>]

> Susan wrote:
> 
> For those who engage in the price of gasoline
> discussions, you may be interested in the attached .jpg
> file that charts the prices at the pump from 1949-1999.

Interesting. I have no reason to doubt the data, but I
would point out that the presentation is flawed. When you
truncate the graph (don't include the range from 0 to $1
at the bottom) you make it look like the present price is
almost nothing and like the ups and downs were more
significant than they really were.

Don Coombs