Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Weigh-In #9


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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Holy sh--, gas is 55 cents a galon!
How can we ever afford that. It's all that %#&# Nixon's fault.

Mike Naughton said...

When I first saw the 55, I thought the $2 in front of it fell off; and at $2.55 in NY that would still be a bargain.

Anonymous said...

We're 257 right now in Northern Virginia. I remember in the summer of 65, when I was working in a gas station in the little town where we lived in Eastern Virginia, we put gas up to 31 cents from 29. You wouldn't believe the comments. And for 31 cents we pumped it, you got both front and back windows washed, and everything under the hood checked! People use to buy $2.00 worth of gas and drive around for the whole week. And that was living in the country!
Carl

Anonymous said...

Come on you guys, I remember 14.9 per gal and a Rockford,IL suburb used to have gas wars and the price was 9.9.
Three years ago I thought that 218.9 in Steamboat Spring, Co was awful.

Anonymous said...

I think it was 1973. Mary Jane and I were working for Bill English on the Hanneford show. Gas just very suddenly went boom boom boom from 30c to 50c.

Then came the shortages. After the spring tour we had a nephew graduating in San Diego and of course we drove out. There were lots of closed stations, stations with long lines, stations that would only sell you so much.

When we went back again at Christmas we went by Greyhound. Everybody had the same idea as I stood up much of the way.