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Ugh.... (Stupidity Rant)

I don't remember the exact price, but I think it was somewhere around 90 cents per gallon for regular unleaded. That was 1986.
 
I was a late driver at 17, but then it was $.79/gal. That was waaaay back in '83. Now I'm thrilled if I can get it for 3.50.
 
Right after I started buying leaded gas they banned it though.. I remember I had to add something to regular gas (a little bottle) to make my car drive right on it. That was like '89 or '90. It was considerably more pricey then.
 
I remember 59 cents a gallon.

AND....there was a local drive-in theater (remember THOSE?) that would fill up your tank if you had 4 peeps in the car, each paying a regular price ticket - which was around $4, IIRC.

So 4 teens would pile into a late 70's-style land yacht....the ones with 20 gallon tanks.

I've gotta go......damn prostate. :sidestep:


regards,
jazz
 
Because I live in the middle of nowhere- they USED to let you drive at 15- I got in just under the law change. That was 8 years ago. I think gas was around 2.30 or so. But I hardly ever drove (no car) so less filling up! I do remember as a kid it being under a dollar.
But I have a question: Tell me this (because my dad is ALWAYS asking!)- here in The Land of Enchantment (that's New Mexico) they are basically refining the oil in my backyard. So why am I paying $3.90?! Its *cheaper* if you drive about 2 hours out of town and head into the desert into the middle of nowhere (picture the cactus and vultures and you get the picture). Is $3.50 there. Makes no sense to me. :shrugs:
 
tom e said:
Here's a fun question..
What was the price of gas when you first started driving? (to everybody who wants to play..)

My first bought gallon of gas was .89/gallon. Leaded, lol.
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When the heck did you start driving??? I don't remember the cost when I first started 30 yrs ago, but I remember when I moved to So. IL/St Louis it was only .85 a gal and that was just in 2001.
 
You young pups make me chuckle. I got my license in about 1965. The gas stations used to have price wars back then. One guy would drop a penny and then the guy across the street would drop two. I remember 0.18. I had a 1960 corvare and I could fill it up for $2.00
 
I started driving in 1998 and it was about 95¢ a gallon. I remember throwing the biggest fit when it got to $1.50, an even bigger one when it hit $2.00. Oh well, life goes on...
 
tricksterpup said:
This is a great point, but that means no traveling vacations through out the state. I am sure people will stay more at home and closer to town more than ever. Does that mean it will slow down tourism? I am sure its going to hurt all those small towns that depend on tourist taking the week end drive to their country hideaway. Or will this hurt more larger trips, i remember as a kid driving to Florida and going to Disney World. Sadly, If I drove down to Florida today, I would rather see fort tort or Rich's place. Man, just imagine all those racks.

*hint* Rich, turn your site into a Tourist Attraction. make some extra money. ;)
I am sure your place is neater than those Rattlesnake Road side attraction Museums. :D
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Some good points. Your post illustrates just how far reaching the economic consequences will be. I think you're right that people won't travel as far or as often. But it might balance out some, as people who used to leave for vacation will visit closer destinations - perhaps some sort of cancelation effect: lose tourists from far away, gain some that live closer.
 
blueapplepaste said:
Some good points. Your post illustrates just how far reaching the economic consequences will be. I think you're right that people won't travel as far or as often. But it might balance out some, as people who used to leave for vacation will visit closer destinations - perhaps some sort of cancelation effect: lose tourists from far away, gain some that live closer.
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Your right they are good points. I've heard these oil price increases described as a natural environmental curb, because of the points you guys have mentioned, but IMO thats rubbish, it'll only increase the rich - poor divide even further, so that the poor can't travel as far or as often, whilst the rich carry on as they were, several highly polluting plane journeys a year etc. i doubt it'll make any difference anytime soon environmentally speaking. :angry01:
 
Weebonilass said:
When the heck did you start driving??? I don't remember the cost when I first started 30 yrs ago, but I remember when I moved to So. IL/St Louis it was only .85 a gal and that was just in 2001.
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I started driving in like 89 or 90.. My answer compared to some of yours was making me doubt my .89 answer. Then I looked it up- In just those years the price of leaded gas dropped alot because they were trying to get rid of it, legislation had just passed that would take it off the market in 91. Lucky timing for me and my 74 Nova..

Still though I'm seeing it was on average about 98 cents a gallon at that time, so my memory and the record have some discrepancy, lol. Maybe I've reversed the numbers?
 
tom e said:
I started driving in like 89 or 90.. My answer compared to some of yours was making me doubt my .89 answer. Then I looked it up- In just those years the price of leaded gas dropped alot because they were trying to get rid of it, legislation had just passed that would take it off the market in 91. Lucky timing for me and my 74 Nova..

Still though I'm seeing it was on average about 98 cents a gallon at that time, so my memory and the record have some discrepancy, lol. Maybe I've reversed the numbers?
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Either way, it's still amazingly cheap. I'm learning to drive in August, and what with insurance costs through the roof and the current price of petrol, I'm gonna be broke, LOL. I'm just lucky my Dad's giving me his old car (diesel, with 109,000 on the clock), although for most people my age it tends not to be the car that's expensive.
 
I'd love to $3.50 (£1.75) for fuel. The reason ours is so high is because nearly 70% of the cost is tax.....So every price hike the oil companies make 70% tax is added.....
Luckily Our PM Golden Brown is meeting with world oil bosses to see if they can help..... I have a radical idea Gordon, cut the tax you greedy megalomaniac.
 
Jimmy mentioned ..

I saw a program on TV the other night that talked about Hydrogen fuel and how people are afraid that it will explode. ummm.. has any ever stuck a match in a open gas can???
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Where does the hydrogen production come from? I believe the hydrogen is also a by product of refining any crude oil... Go figure..

When I started driving.. Hummm... almost 23 yrs ago.. I think we were around .45 cents a litre, but I seem to remember when i was a kid ole Pop's was paying maybe $7 to $10 to fill the belly of the old 66 Pontiwreck Laurentian, and that was Imperial Gallons.. Heck I don;t bitch a squable to much about $4 a gallon gas, thats about what I was paying when I left Canada 9 yrs ago... Of course the China market place has a hughg demand for fossil fuel now that is ramping up towards becoming a real industrialized nation... *shrugs*

Regards.. Tim of T and J
 
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