Wouldn't it be nice....

http://www.cnn.com/US/9805/10/briefs...ces/index.html

 

$.02....OH NOES

**** I saw gas jump $.19 in one day

 

2 cents at a time - GASP!
Nowadays, $.12 at a time is no big deal!
A dollar seven a gallon.........funnier still, did you read the links below: "The End of Cheap Gas?".
Gee thanks, Chi, for getting me all depressed now...........

 

Worse, I remember when gas was $0.12 per gallon. They filled the tank, washed the windshield and gave you a steak knife.

What's more depressing, today's gas prices or that I can remember that far back!

Yeah, thanks Chi-town

I need two fingers of scotch.


roadster with a stick

 

My memory of gas prices goes back to about 1970 I suspect.
I would get gas for my go-cart at the Clark gas station and it was 40 cents a gallon.
I was 8 years old.

My dad owned this Sunoco back in 1959 in Villa Park,Illinois
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My dad in black pants (center)between the clowns

My dad and his service guys in a grand opening group photo

My dad at the filling a Cadillac at the full service island

My dad cleaning the windows on the Cadillac
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SEE THE FREE GIFTS SIGN! When ios the last time you saw one of those at a gas pump. Or an attendant. Only New Jersey has attendants.(required by law) and they have them at all three stations still in business in the state.

In 1964 Gas at the Clark station in Dellwood MO was $ 0.12 per gallon to $0.18 depending on whether or not a "gas war" was going on.
When Cathy and I moved to Chicago in 1970 Gas was $0.38 to $ 0.42 per gallon. We wondered how Chicagoans dealt with that.

Later, when it jumped to $ 0.56 per gallon we were told by then President Carter that the life style we knew was soon to be over. Gas lines, allocations, and severe shortages made cross country travel a bit of an adventure.

Keep in mind, back then our cars got 8 to 12 MPG unless you drove a Volkswagon and got 15 to 18 MPG. My wife's Olds Delta 88 got 6 MPG while my Starfire could eek out 15.

Yeah, those were the days.


roadster with a stick

 

I heard on the news that the Rand corporation http://rand.org/ , has calculated this time next year we'll be at $6 a gallon, so enjoy the cheap gas now guys!

 

Nice pics. of your dad, Gary!!
Memories..........I only started paying any attention to petrol prices when I got my first car, a '63 Chev. Impala Super Sport, 283 w/ the Powerglide 2 speed tranny, souped, of course. Edelbrock manifold, cam, lifters, headers, Holley 4 barrel but, like an idiot, I kept the tranny. You could get the car to 65mph in first. No guts from the line but over 30, watch out!
Gas prices at the local Clark station were a whole whopping $.32 a gallon.

 

I can remember 29.9 a gal at the Sinclair I worked at when I was 16 yrs old...seemed like there was a gas station on every corner...we had 2200 people back then and about 9 gas stations...there are only 2 now...