According to this article, rising gas prices in America are leading to a 22% decrease in automobile deaths this year, or around 5,000 lives saved in a year.
That's almost a quarter of Iraqi civilian deaths in 2007.
The average cost for 1 Gallon (3.8 litres) of gasoline in San Francisco today is the same as 83.8 Hershey's chocolate bars (1.5oz or 42.5g) in 1936, the year Jesse Owens upset the reich by earning 4 medals in the Berlin Olympics, 25% the number Michael Phelps has earned in his career to date.
The gold content of those medals is at least 72G, worth USD $1,092.96, or enough to buy 454.16 gallons of gasoline in San Francisco.
Assuming highway miles, that would get a person 15896 miles in a 2008 Ford Focus, or 63.8% of the earth's circumference.
Which according to this would be just enough to drive from the filling station in SF to Baghdad and back. At which point the car would have a suggested retail value of $12,690 USD.
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