Gas is not expensive as you think it is.
In the early sixties gas was 20 cents a gallon.
In the early sixties dimes were made with silver.
The last time I looked it up the amount of silver that was in a pre 1963(or'64) was worth about two dollars.
Yesterday in my area gas was 3.159(2.989 about twenty five miles away) dollars per gallon.
Yesterday the same amount of silver would buy a little more gas than it would in the sixties.
Like I said gas isn't that expensive, our money ain't worth a fiddler's dam.