In message .com, at
01:01:33 on Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Richard Adamfi
remarked:
However, if you take a longer term view, petrol has risen roughly in
line with inflation since 1970 and has almost halved in relation to
average earnings.

To be honest, it was probably the average earnings figure that I was
remembering. So petrol is twice as affordable as it once was, which is
the important thing.
--
Roland Perry