Gas is expensive nowadays.
In the 1940s, they got it for free.
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Explain Bear
Listen here, you genius. You think you're so clever for saying gas was free in the 1940s, but you're just stating an exaggerated and unrealistic point. Gas was not literally free. It's a silly and simplified statement to emphasize that gas prices have increased so much that a point in history is almost incomparable. You're so dense you need this basic joke explained to you.