Chart: Jacque Schrag/Axios New cars are very expensive — the ... if you look at the broad consumer price index. On an inflation-adjusted basis, a car that sold for $32,250 in 2014 should be ...

Already putting pressure on CPI inflation. Now comes tax-refund season. Inflation pressures are rebuilding in used vehicles.

The consumer price index, an inflation gauge, rose 2.9% on an annual basis in December. That's up from 2.7% in November. Energy, food, new and used vehicles, car insurance and airline fares were ...

while the red line represents the price of gas since 1918 adjusted for inflation. The most we've paid for gas was when we first started buying a lot of it back in 1918 when the chart begins.