Teenagers had it so much easier 10 years ago (in reference to gas and minimum wage)?

Minimum wage has barley changed (5.85 here) but gas has increased by 3 fold.





I find that a huge portion of my check goes to gas.. and I still have to pay for insurance, car payment, cell phone, and other expenses.Teenagers had it so much easier 10 years ago (in reference to gas and minimum wage)?
Yes I feel what your saying...min wage back in 1983 when i was 18 was only $2.30 hr and that wage stayed the same $ amt from 01-01-1976 to 01-01-1989 then it finally went up to $3.85 hr. And gas was under a buck, pay phones had just gone to 15cents to place a local call etc. . WA State is $8.07 an hr currentently (effective 01-01-2008)...unless your 14-15 yrs old then they are only required to be paid 85% of min wage or $6.86 hr. Gas in some parts of our state for Unl Reg is $4.09 gal but the standard in my town is about $3.85 gal and yep it is still rising. But we also didnt have cell phones so if ya wanted to talk to your friends you had to actually go see them in person or talk on your home phone (no cordless back then either...lol) and alot of people didnt have cable tv, computers, nintendos etc...so in some ways teens have more then we back then even if it costs them.