PERSPECTIVE

What percent of your income do you spend on gasoline? More in a moment.

While complaining about the high cost of gasoline to my better half, she made a very profound statement. "Put it in perspective." And then she began to throw figures at me. When you started working it cost you, what? $2.50 to drive one hundred miles. (based on .25 cents for a gallon of gasoline, at 10 mpg in my auto of the time) and I was making $50.00 per week, so the gasoline cost me 5% of my income. Today, with gasoline at $4.50 per gallon, that one hundred miles costs me $22.50. But, with my current income and the fact that my current auto averages 20 mpg , that is 2.25% of my income.

Perspective! For what it's worth.