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Originally Posted by Higgs Boson
I agree, nor am I picking sides, but to be fair, you did pick the spike year to compare against, lol. Verrrry clever.  |
I wasn't picking a "spike year" on purpose; I picked it because I started driving in 1978, and I had not even looked at the data when I made that statement. Regardless, even your graphical data shows what my point is, that on average, gasoline pricing has stayed constant over 40+ years (even trending down from '32 to 2000), where one would expect it to trend up based on scarcity of the finite resource. And add on top the miles driven per year has drastically increased along with 14.3 cents of tax increase.
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A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."