A few years ago, I think it was 2006 or 2007, I read a report on the rise in the average annual cost of a four year college education, from 1978 to 2006/7.
I backed the dollar amount of the increase into an “inflation rate” for college tutition for the period covered by the report.
I went and found the national average retail price for gasoline, as of 1978, and applied the “inflation rate” for college tutition to it.
The result was what a gallon of gas would be costing at the pump if that cost grew as much as did college tuition from 1978 to 2006/7.
The answer was $12.93 a gallon.
Yet, due to the Liberal/Progressive/Marxist hold on the educational industrial establishment, and the political class’s partnership with it, the oil industry is evil and all we need to do about education is spend more money on it.
Not to mention you still get the same amount of work out of the gas in 2007 that you did in 1978 (assuming no ethanol). Can’t quite say that about the college indoctrination centers today.