Okay, its going to 4.00 dollars a gallon.

java said:
C'mon, Dann, we BOTH remember gas wars in trhe '60s where gas could go for less than 25 cents a gallon.....;)


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Sure...But sometimes my memory isn't THAT good.:D.

Actually, I think I DO remember it clear down to less than $0.25 a gallon at "Bingers" in Hoquiam back in the mid '60's during a "gas war". That $0.49 a gallon was the lowest "everyday price" that I remember, tho.
 
I worked at a gas station in High school.
I do remember changeing those metal signs to 19.9.

That's right, just about 20 cents a gallon.
And we would give ya a set of tumblers when you filled up.....
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Well, I must be a DINOSAUR!:eek: I remember gas down to .09 a gallon during a gas war between two stations across the street from each other.:D
Snickers were a nickel and smokes were .25 a pack. :p A date to the movies and a burger and coke afterwards cost me maybe $5 bucks total! ;) When I was in high school I often drove my friends to school. I would shake them all down for pocket change and go fill my 25 gallon tank! :) The year I graduated I wanted to buy a Camaro but it was just
to much money at $3500!:)

What the hell is happening anyway?????:eek: :eek:
 
What's odd is here I saw gas for 3.55$ and 3.15$ the same day at gas stations no more than 5 miles apart.

I've been walking and skateboarding to places more. I've been thinking about it, and most the places I drive to are real close. Friends' houses, skateparks, little patches of woods and the good local chinese restaurant. I enjoy walking and skating around a lot more than driving, mainly because the latter feels so restrained with our traffic system and it's not very fun having to put up with so many morons on the road. Walking around, it's easy to ignore morons, but driving they can literally kill you. Feel more free walking or skating too. I can go do some tricks in a parking lot, then go walk behind a store and just lay in a small undeveloped field and watch the clouds for a while. Better than the stop and go of driving where your attention is constantly demanded.

I'm also going to get new tubes for the tires on my old mountain bike. Haven't really ridden a bike since I started skating about 8 years ago so it'll be nice. I'll start taking that everywhere too.

No real effect when it comes to traffic here though. Like others say, there are still tons of trucks and SUVs around. Last night when I pulled into my friends apartment complex the first three cars on my right parked were big trucks. It's just like everything else in life though, a lot of complaining but no action. People are too set in their lifestyles to really change things, unless things get more extreme.

Cheapest I saw gas for was around 65 cents in Oklahoma circa 92 or so.
 
Just to make you guys feel better about the price increases I'm paying $7.02 for a US gallon here in the UK. Just filled up my Landrover and it cost $140! No more knife purchases for a little while :(
 
Personally, I'd like to see $5.00 plus a gallon.

Do the country some good (but it'd hurt me financially).

Lookin' at the bigger picture, I guess.
 
A few posts have mentioned that if your 'gas' prices go up then traffic will decrease. Dont bet on it. We have been paying about $7 a gallon for a few years now and traffic continues to increase.

People will go without food or new clothes rather than give up their car. They would keep driving if it cost $10 a gallon (maybe not in a 4 liter pickup truck though!) Its not a luxury, its necessary to get to work in our amazing new globalized economy where everyone has to drive miles to work because all the local manufacturing jobs have gone to vietnam and china, its necessary to feed yourself in our amazing new globalized supermarket world with no local stores, more than that its freedom from having to sit in your house doing cross stitch or staring at the wall
 
bladefixation2 - I think you have a valid point.

But at some point the economics of driving 100 plus miles a day to go to work will make that far away job unteniable.

Of course, there is always bicycles, buses, and trains.
 
the tradesmen are taking a big hit-we can drive on average 60 miles or more each way -im lucky i can drive my car(40mpg)because i dont have a whole lot of big tools-the guys who have to drive a pickup or van are paying thru the nose-
 
Back when the dinosaurs roamed, I carried a big stick to ward off the pterodactyls while I walked to school. No it wasn't two miles through the snow, either! :D Nobody I knew was given a car by their parents like the little punks are today. After high school I got a job building boats, saved some money, and bought my first car. It cost $100 and I spent another $100 putting recap tires and a water pump on it and fixing it up. Gas? No big deal. The regular price was 19 cents a gallon at the Kayo station by Lake Underhill in Orlando. When they had a gas war going on it was as low at 16 cents a gallon! I could drive over to Titusville and Merritt Island, buy bait, pack food from home, sleep in the car, and fish all weekend for two bucks. The other day I bought twenty bucks worth of gas for my van and that was about a quarter of a tank. :eek:
 
I remember 29 cents a gallon, and then 39 and it stayed there for quite awhile before the big spiral upward. Those were the days, when a $10 bill filled up the car, and got me a 12 pack of beer and enough change left over for a pack of smokes.

Today it takes the better part of a full days wages to fill up. I do not think this is bennefiting anyone, except the oil companies and governments for the short term. They get the free lunches and everyone else has to pay for it all. People are hurting around here, and are running up their credit cards and lines of credit just to commute and heat their homes.

At some point the personal dept will reach the saturation point and it will become a geat economic mess, as many folks will not just owe the banks their shirts on their backs, but they will have nothing for retirement. It is time to force the oil companies to share some of the wealth back to the people. Peg the oil prices to $10 dollars a barrel, it is not worth any more than that. Oil should be concidered a resource not a commodity.
 
It is time to force the oil companies to share some of the wealth back to the people. Peg the oil prices to $10 dollars a barrel, it is not worth any more than that. Oil should be concidered a resource not a commodity.
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hmm, sounds alot like a planned socialist economy.
 
Saw it for 2.87 in Gap, PA. And a line for about a half mile down the street.

I really wanted to smack myself when I blurted out happily "Hey, only 3.05 a gallon there!"
 
Hey, why are you complaining. In Sweden the price for gas is about 12,10 Swedish kronor a LITER and that is always blamed on either the value of the dollar or higher prices on crude.
One dollar is about 6,85 SEK
One gallon is how many liters? you do the math.
It is about the same in Europe.
Wait to see what happens if someone decides to invade Iran. Then you will have five bucks a gallon in notime.
 
It's already $4 a gallon in Needles, CA. Well, it's really $3.99 9/10, but that's pretty close. What I find kind of funny is watching people fill up there and then head to AZ on I40. There is a big billboard on the highway in Needles advertising the Pilot station in Havasu which is about 21 miles from Needles. Gas there is usually 50 to 75 cents less per gallon.

I worked in a gas station on weekends when I was in high school. 17.9 cents and you got your windows washed and your tires and oil checked. Of course, I made a whole $1 per hour.
 
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