Today’s the fifth anniversary of the start of the invasion of Iraq. Here’s an interesting article I found from just before the invasion – March 10, 2003:

The average price of gasoline increased 5 cents a gallon over the last two weeks, according to a national survey released Sunday.

Americans paid an average of $1.7212 a gallon, less than 1 cent below the all-time high of $1.7271 on May 18, 2001, the Lundberg Survey said. The numbers were not adjusted for inflation.

A year ago, the nationwide average price for a gallon of gas was $1.20.

We’ve certainly come a long way.