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Cake day: October 4th, 2023

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  • I remember this cause I was living in a place where gas topped $5 a gallon. The federal minimum wage was $5.85 for the first half of that year. Basically my first and last hour of work was really just paying the gas to get to/from work. Running $5 through an inflation calc and that would be about $7.59 today.

    My parents bought a Lincoln Navigator during that time…🤯 The dealer understandably was super motivated to get rid of it. It gets ~12 mpg around town. A bit after those price hikes they started pumping oil like crazy though and prices hit rock bottom around $1.60 though. That likely caused the mass purchasing of giant SUV’s again.