I got my first car just before I turned 18 in '93, and gas in Illinois (about 60 miles SW of Chicago) fluctuated between $.99 and about $1.20. This remained the case through Spring '99 when it had one last hurrah at a buck, and since then the world has been waking up to the worthlessness of our fiat currency which, combined with more well known crises has driven things to where they are now.
--T.J.
