Before you complain about the recent rise in gas prices...

While drivers grumble about prices, a gallon of gas in 2002 cost less on average than it did 20 years earlier, when adjusted for inflation.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20...1033-2847r.htm

I am old enough to remember the horrible gas shortages of the 1970s,
made worse, IMO, by unrealistic price controls. They would set the price
real low, so it would be "affordable", but there wasn't any available.