Interesting, you seemed to have missed my point of how time frames matter. You might want to think about that. Consider what I said about that ten-fold increase happening over 100 years, and then understand that a 10-fold increase over 100 years is the same and an annual increase of 2.3%.
Pause here and think about this if it's hard to follow.
Raising gas prices by 2.3% at the end of a year will not make driving a car unaffordable. This would especially be true if wages also increased by 2.3%. In fact, this would seem like stable prices, even if it lasted for 100 years.
Are we together on the fact that time frames matter yet?