Just saying those words out loud here to see what they sound like — just trying to imagine what it will be like, 50 or 60 years from now, when Americans who are young today look back over their lives and recall fondly the second decade of the 21st century, when prices were low and reasonable.
When you could actually buy a gallon of gas for five bucks, or a postage stamp for half a buck.
Back before prices started to soar.
Will it actually happen? Will the once-unheard-of prices we appear headed toward seem someday like great bargains, to be remembered warmly by Americans accustomed to paying $20 a gallon for gas, and $6 to mail a first-class letter?