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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 07:16 AM Original message |
REMEMBER WHEN: The cheapest you've even seen gas prices in your lifetime |
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bicentennial_baby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 07:17 AM Response to Original message |
1. late 90's, NH |
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Spider Jerusalem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 07:20 AM Response to Original message |
2. The lowest I remember paying was 63¢/gallon, in 1998... |
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tyedyeto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 07:21 AM Response to Original message |
3. During the gas wars many years ago |
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BlueJazz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 08:53 AM Response to Reply #3 |
20. I was gonna say the same thing! Man..that was Nice... n/t |
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HamstersFromHell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 07:24 AM Response to Original message |
4. Worked in a gas station when I was in high school... |
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blueknight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 07:27 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. i remember a gas war |
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LaurenG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 07:31 AM Response to Original message |
6. When I first got my license |
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punpirate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 07:35 AM Response to Original message |
7. Mid-fifties... |
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China_cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 07:40 AM Response to Original message |
8. Boy, you all are young. |
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dr.strangelove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 07:41 AM Response to Original message |
9. I remember gas in the $.60 - .70 range about 8 years ago. |
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Misunderestimator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 08:55 AM Response to Reply #9 |
21. 8 years ago? Where? |
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dr.strangelove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 10:07 AM Response to Reply #21 |
36. I think the cheapest I paid was in Minnesota in 1998 |
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datasuspect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 09:19 AM Response to Reply #9 |
30. shit it was .99 at least 6 years ago. |
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Catchawave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 07:50 AM Response to Original message |
10. 35 cents/gal in the mid-60's |
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BiggJawn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 07:55 AM Response to Original message |
11. TWELVE Cents a gallon..... |
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papau (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 08:00 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. yes - the gas wars in Cairo Illinois often got Regular to 9 cents a gal |
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Left_Winger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 08:07 AM Response to Original message |
13. OK, but it will give my age away... |
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mcscajun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 08:36 AM Response to Original message |
14. $.25 in 1967 |
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bertha katzenengel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 08:40 AM Response to Original message |
15. $0.79, don't remember the year |
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ClintonTyree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 09:08 AM Response to Reply #15 |
25. Pretty soon they'll have to do that again............ |
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bertha katzenengel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 09:18 AM Response to Reply #25 |
29. I have no doubt. Maybe then Hummers will become as shameful a |
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RPM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 08:44 AM Response to Original message |
16. mid - 90's - $.98 |
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Modem Butterfly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 08:46 AM Response to Original message |
17. 10 years ago, 0.65 per gallon in GA |
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kevsand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 08:47 AM Response to Original message |
18. 25 cents/gal during a gas war in the sixties. nt |
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GalleryGod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 08:51 AM Response to Original message |
19. In the 60's- "A dollar's worth, please" got you 3 gallons EZ |
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ClintonTyree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 09:03 AM Response to Original message |
22. $.29 a gallon........ |
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Midlodemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 09:59 AM Response to Reply #22 |
34. I remember that price as well. |
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tigereye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 09:06 AM Response to Original message |
23. I remember a price war when I was a kid |
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ewagner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 09:09 AM Response to Reply #23 |
26. Yep |
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tigereye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 09:15 AM Response to Reply #26 |
27. I also remember when milk was 1.06 per gallon |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 09:07 AM Response to Original message |
24. $.35 |
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catmandu57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 09:17 AM Response to Original message |
28. Clean the windshield, check the oil, air the tires, bucks worth of regular |
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newportdadde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 09:28 AM Response to Original message |
31. Somewhere in the 80 cent range in the late 80s early 90s. |
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madinmaryland (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 09:32 AM Response to Original message |
32. $0.199 / gallon in Lima Ohio in 1971. |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 09:58 AM Response to Original message |
33. Bought gas for $.23 per gallon in high school. |
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lpbk2713 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 10:07 AM Response to Original message |
35. Around 25 cents/gal in the late 1950's when I began driving. |
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SmileyBoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 10:16 AM Response to Original message |
37. A little more than a dollar - Late 80's-early 90's |
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Bullwinkle925 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 10:18 AM Response to Original message |
38. .35/gal. I had a '69 Opel Kadet and used to spend around $12.00 |
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 10:20 AM Response to Original message |
39. 23.9 |
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Sequoia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 10:28 AM Response to Original message |
40. 19 cents in NC way back in |
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stopbush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 10:38 AM Response to Original message |
41. 8 cents a gallon in Michigan back in the late 50s. |
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trackfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 10:55 AM Response to Original message |
42. I definitely remember .28 a gallon |
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Mixxster (653 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 11:25 AM Response to Original message |
43. In college, I remember the sign saying 37.9 a gallon. n/t |
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bikebloke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 11:28 AM Response to Original message |
44. Twenty-some cents in the early 60's |
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Beware the Beast Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 11:34 AM Response to Original message |
45. In my years as a licensed driver, |
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Old_Fart (805 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 11:35 AM Response to Original message |
46. $.36 cents |
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ernstbass (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 11:40 AM Response to Original message |
47. 29 cents - gas war in the 60's |
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WCGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 11:43 AM Response to Original message |
48. .32 when I worked in a gas station right beofre the crisis |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 12:00 PM Response to Original message |
49. You young whippersnappers! |
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Throckmorton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 12:03 PM Response to Original message |
50. 26 cents, |
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hayu_lol (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 12:34 PM Response to Reply #50 |
51. 19 cents/gal in Hollywood, CA in 1950... |
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SmileyBoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 12:38 PM Response to Original message |
52. There's an abandoned ghost town in North Dakota... |
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Roland99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 12:39 PM Response to Original message |
53. Somewhere in the sub-$0.50 range. I remember when it first hit $0.75 |
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henslee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-05 12:40 PM Response to Original message |
54. I remember 60. I also remember rationing when my cousin made my |
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