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regular leaded gasoline was $0.25 / gallon or $0.07 / liter?
Now we are currently paying $1.25 / liter or $4.75 / gallon for regular unleaded!!:(
How long before we are paying $2.50 / litre or $9.50 / gallon?
Oil is forecast to reach $200 / barrel by the end of 2008![8]
 
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I only go back to $0.32/gallon. Then at the "gas shortage" in the 70's it was $1.10/gallon for gasoline and $0.36/gallon for diesel. Now it is $4.02/gallon for super-unleaded (my car requires super) and $4.59/gallon for diesel.

That diesel price is a real joke since diesel is supposedly a byproduct of making gasoline.

*sigh*
GK
 
I remember gas wars dropping the price below $.25 US. I remember when you could get a pack of cigarettes from a machine for $.25. Right out in the open! No shame involved or nothin'!;)

I currently have a pickup that gets 13 MPG. I bought the durn thing so that I could haul hardwood lumber home. Now I can't afford the gas to go to the lumber yard (40 miles one way). Anyone want to buy it? :D
 
Yes the good old days when gas was 19.9 cents a gal. and we wiped your windshied,checked your oil and had air at the pumps for your tires, yes I worked at a service station in 1956 in Tampa,Florida when I was 16. I remember bread was .15 cents a loaf and at the the local Drive in Resturant a hamberger was .10 and an order of fries a nickle (anyone remember the Little Beaver Dr. In on Dale Mabry?)But I also remember that My Dad was making $55.00 a week and mom was a stay at home mom, I made .50 cents an hour, so Dads $55.00 a week for 40 hours =$1.38 an hr. for the head of household and gas at .20 cents (19.9 ) he could buy 7 gals of gas, so if your making today $25 and hour @ $3.50 a gal you still can get 7 gals. Don't get me wrong I belive the big oil companies are getting excessive profits I 'm just compareing, the so called "GOOD OLD DAYS". The best thing out of the 50's was the music,cars and we kept our doors unlocked and we all said yes sir and no sir to our elders, yes I do miss:( a lot of the 50's and 60's.....But very glad to be here in 2008:D.
 
VERY glad to be here in 2008. Bad knee, get it replaced. Heart?, sure.

My son's diabetes today: full-time glucose monitoring system that sends dosage info via wireless to the insulin pump. Then?: "I feel funny, I better inject using this horse syringe and hope I get it right or I kill myself."
Oh, and it is looking like their might actually be a cure/permanent fix for type-1 in the next decade.

VERY VERY glad to be here.

(But I do miss the kids being respectful.)
GK
 
I'm with Roy I remember pumping gas for 19.9 during gas wars back in the late 50s early 60s, sure glad I waited till 2002 to have a heart attack though, I miss the Sir and Mam thing too. and since I retire officially tomorrow, I won't have to drive my gas hog 1970 VW to work. I can walk to the shop, :(
 
Originally posted by OKLAHOMAN

I remember bread was .15 cents a loaf and at the the local Drive in Resturant a hamberger was .10 and an order of fries a nickle (anyone remember the Little Beaver Dr. In on Dale Mabry?)
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I grew up in Tampa.......just off Dal Mabry, over by Egypt Lake. I remember the gas wars, gas at .15-.17 cents per gallon.....my friend and I would gas up the '55 RoadMaster with money we got collecting bottles and such. Remember getting a gallon of milk from the machine outside the gas station for $.50 a gallon (glass). I made $1.15 - $1.25 an hour working for Red Lobster over by Bush Gardens.

Nice to see someone from home!!!
 
I grew up just off of Dale Mabry also but in West Tampa, remember as a kid going to Lake Mary, Do you remember SuperTest Amusment on Dale Mabry and Columbus?
Originally posted by titan2

Originally posted by OKLAHOMAN

I remember bread was .15 cents a loaf and at the the local Drive in Resturant a hamberger was .10 and an order of fries a nickle (anyone remember the Little Beaver Dr. In on Dale Mabry?)
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I grew up in Tampa.......just off Dal Mabry, over by Egypt Lake. I remember the gas wars, gas at .15-.17 cents per gallon.....my friend and I would gas up the '55 RoadMaster with money we got collecting bottles and such. Remember getting a gallon of milk from the machine outside the gas station for $.50 a gallon (glass). I made $1.15 - $1.25 an hour working for Red Lobster over by Bush Gardens.

Nice to see someone from home!!!
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Cav,
You're picking on Ed, but I was about 5 or 6 when my dad got his first car.. a model A Ford coupe (2 seater) that came in any color you wanted - as long as you wanted black. We were a family of 5 by then, so it got crowded in that little coupe.. little sister sat between Mom and Dad (straddling the gear shift) big sister sat between Mom and the passenger door and I (middle child) rode stretched out across the back of the seat.. and we moved from Freestone county in east Texas .. about 100 miles south of Dallas to Vernon, Texas about 50 miles west of Witchata Falls..

Before the Model A, our primary mode of transport was a spring wagon behind a pair of green broke mules.
 
You can't really appreciate the good ole days unless you can remember sitting in front of the TV on a saturday morning waiting for the test pattern to go away and for cartoons to start.

Recognize this? If not, you're just a kid!

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Originally posted by Texatdurango

You can't really appreciate the good ole days unless you can remember sitting in front of the TV on a saturday morning waiting for the test pattern to go away and for cartoons to start.

Recognize this? If not, you're just a kid!

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wow, I almost forgot about those. Guess I'm getting close to being up there as well. I do remember riding to the gas station on my bike to get Dad some gas for the lawn mower and coming back with some change from the quarter. Also the McD's thing of burger, fries and drink for under a buck. Gass was up to .47 a gallon when I started driving, I was glad I was driving Mom's VW bug. Five cents for a 16 oz glass bottle of pop. Used to get good candy money from rounding up empty pop bottles and getting the deposit back on them.
 
Originally posted by OKLAHOMAN

I grew up just off of Dale Mabry also but in West Tampa, remember as a kid going to Lake Mary, Do you remember SuperTest Amusment on Dale Mabry and Columbus? [quote

Cann't say that I do......I lived north of West Hillsborough Avenue. I remember Al Lopez Field long before they built the new stadium there. Graduated for Tampa Bay Tech.....first year in H.S. the old school was somewhat down town (2 story building), pretty old. Then they built the new school out towards Plant City.
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