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Date Posted: 06:39:44 01/22/25 Wed
Author: AusNick
Author Host/IP: 1.43.214.67
Subject: The Average Cost UPDATED!

It's been what, about 8 years?

But finally an update

It now goes back as far as 1954 all the way to 2012.

And we can thank Rita for the update.

The Average Cost (2025 Update)
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/5ywvzv5oa1sa5dzjtw0lv/The-Average-Cost-NLL.pdf?rlkey=bkipx8sj0mo6ygwyxat970o57&dl=0
https://app.box.com/s/24e4ni7zr04c10rlq0q7rekw8kik2kry

Bear in mind these prices are in US Dollars.

I did several spot checks as I was adding the new data, and everything appears to line up with mine. For anyone interested, you'll find the links to the source articles in the Foreword.

Coincidentally, the source article for the new data was written about 5 months after I published my original document. The Author probably used one of the same original sources that I did, but expanded on it a little to write their work.

Okay, for anyone not in the know, The Original Cost was written as a reference document and as an information source for fiction authors.

If there's any data past 2012, I have no idea where to look, nor any idea for where to look for data from other countries. I suppose it would be handy to have it, but I'm not sure if it would be on any use, I don't think many people would have an interest in such a thing. Australia's price data would be nightmare fuel.

If anyone were to plug the data into a spreadsheet and create a graph, it would be interesting to see. I might do that if I ever get time. Looking at the US data, it's the slow and steady increase everyone would expect, then bang, a series of steeper jumps. And I'm willing to bet there would be a correlation between those jumps and government policy changes. But as we all know, governments are money hungry and power hungry entities.

If I ever invent time travel, I know where I'm going. And I'm taking a copy of our library with me.

Multiverse theory is a b*tch, but you can be sure I'll have created a parallel Earth where smoking is the norm, not the exception

So there it is.

Err, enjoy?

Nick

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