Remember when gas was about a buck a gallon?

[strangebrew]

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.

Back in the 20's?

 

[jnevin]

That must have been difficult considering the fossils hadn't converted to fuel yet. j/k

 

[digger]

Ah, children. Gas was cheap for a very long time.

The need to add a dollar digit caught the pump makers by surprise. A lot of places set their pumps for 51.9 cents and multiplied the bill by two (so the price was $1.028 instead of $1.029 -- and some people freaked at that tenth of a cent.

 

[HumorMe]

That was back when I used to walk 10 miles both ways to school in the snow.

You forgot the part about being uphill both ways.

 

[Deterass]

1) Deteras1, your sig is fucking up the page width.

I don't see any difference in the page width.

*edit*

Fixed.

 

[bran987]

Ah, children. Gas was cheap for a very long time.

digger I heard that adjusted for inflation - gas is still much cheaper than it was in decades past. does it seem that way to you now or does that sound like BS?

 

[swordfish151]

$2.65 where im at!!!

 

[bullett]

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.

I rememeber hearing my father talking about the gas wars in Charlotte, NC, and gas going for .10 cents. People were driving from all around to fill up tanks, etc...

That must have been in the mid to late 60's......

Can you imagine??

 

[Mr. dB]

digger I heard that adjusted for inflation - gas is still much cheaper than it was in decades past. does it seem that way to you now or does that sound like BS?

Well, when you consider that you could buy a new Rolls Royce or Ferrari for what an Accord sells for these days, I suppose that's not too far fetched.

Yup, a new Daytona or Silver Shadow was $19,995.

 

[-SD-]

.75 cents, for a brief time in 1997 Austin Texas. That was fuggin sweet