gas prices

[coppersmythe]

A customer came into the gas station and told the attendant "$10 dollars on pump 7".The attendant responded " where are you headed, pump 9 ? " ....coppersmythe..........................................................

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[Eugene]

Sounds true.

I use to get $40- at a time from the wife for pocket money. Now I have to ask her four times to get enough money to fill up the pickup.

[Don McCombs]

To show how times have changed, when I was in high school, I could run my car for a week on a dollar's worth of gas. I was making 80 cents an hour at a part time job.

[Slim140]

To show how times have changed, when I was in high school, I could run my car for a week on a dollar's worth of gas. I was making 80 cents an hour at a part time job.

My junior and senior year in high school I got out early and worked at a landscape nursery. I was making $90 a week and spending $45 on diesel. It was less than a dollar a gallon. 1992-1993

[Gary Dotson]

During high school, I worked a while in a gas station, reg. Was 32.9, premium 36.9. I was shocked, one day, when a Pontiac Bonneville took $6.00 to fill. I think I was getting $1.25 per hour.

[Eugene]

Worked in the hay field during high school summers for $1.00 per hour. 2 to 3 weeks work and I could purchase a 49 - 52 year V-8 Ford for $100-. Gas was 25 cents a gallon, malt shop malts cost 25 cents and donuts a dime. For a high school kid life was good.

First Ford cost me $35-, a 1950 Ford, custon delux, club coupe. Drove that car for about 2 1/2 years until the engine went. Got $10- or $15- at the scrap yard for it. $100- and I purchased another Ford Sedan.

[Jim Reid]

$3.39 today Elkin,NC

[SamsFarm]

Bought a new 1991 Chevy S10 back in the fall of 1990.

2.5 / 5 speed. Gas hovered around a dollar a gallon.

The way I ran it, it got 20mpg. I orderd it with the optional 20 gallon tank.

Any typical week it was usually around 400 miles.

Twenty bucks +/- in the tank and go!

I miss that truck! And Dollar gas ☹️

[coppersmythe]

Does anyone remember the "gas wars " of the early 70's ? I remember the first self serve gas station in our area ,( i was 15 years old ) at the end of my road ( brownsfield and plank road ) , .19 cents a gallon . I had a 69' Fiat 850 spider ( called the poor mans ferrari) , with a 12 gallon tank . 30+ MPG . do the math . 360 miles at a total of $2.28 . coppersmythe...............................................PS: a stupid-fast go-cart with a spot for a license plate on the back Who gives a 15 year old a car like that ? My DAD . I miss him .......................

[Gary Dotson]

I remember the gas wars, in a neighboring town. Gas got as low as .09 cents a gallon. These days, gas stations don’t war, they’re all in it together.

[v w]

I can remember "gas wars", 20 cent gasoline and stretching the gas hoses out straight to drain the last few drops of gas into a friends Cushman. He probably got 5 miles for each hose "drained". Today we pay about 50 cents in taxes. Some of the highest and the roads still suck. We have a lot of freeze-thaw which damages them. It is almost as if you can guess a persons age by how low prices were that they can remember. Vern