The average price of regular unleaded gasoline in 1980 <a href="http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0908464.html">was $1.25</a>. When that <a href="http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl">figure is adjusted</a> for the federal government's <a href="http://www.mises.org/story/1947">inflation of the money supply</a>, which reduces the value of each dollar by creating new dollars out of thin air so that incumbent Congressmen can "<a href="http://www.joplinindependent.com/comments_main.php/mariwinn1135872196/kandu1135915109">bring home the bacon</a>," the average price of gas in 1980 was $3.03, which is about <a href="http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060422/NEWS02/604220373/1011">what it is today</a>.

Asking the government to "<a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul322.html">do something</a>" about rising gas prices is like asking helium to "do something" about rising balloons.