1) Deteras1, your sig is fucking up the page width.
2) I remember the FIRST time regular fuel broke $1/gallon, in in 1978. I drove a 1973 Fiat 128 SL at the time, and was incensed when it took $10 to fill up.
Someone launched a campaign called "To Hell With Shell!" on the theory that they were first company to break the dollar barrier, and if they lost because of it the other companies would try harder to hold the line.
I remember selling gas at 27.9 cents a gallon. Summer job.