This evening, we were watching the Jurassic Park II: The Lost World, and in the "San Diego" portion of the movie, it's possible to see quite clearly the prices of gas at a gasoline station, which started at $1.09 for regular and went all the way up to 1.29 for premium. Lost World was released in 1997, which dates the gas prices to 1995 or 1996 when the principal shooting was done; the price of gasoline this week in the bay area was quickly approaching the $5 mark: ~4.59 for regular, which means that over the past 12 years, the price of gasoline has nearly quadrupled in price, with most of that price increase during the past two years.
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