Posted on 03/16/2020 1:22:28 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Saw $1.649 this morning...25¢ less than I filled up for just a few days back.
Companies that sell precious metals are doing some booming business right now. On the 13th, then silver dropped to $14/oz, I bought a roll of silver eagles for $396, which is a decent (though not great) price for them. Today, when silver is running at $13.10, the same roll costs $450. I passed on it today. The same site normally has a crapload of ‘rounds’ available at not much more than spot price. Today, they are pretty much out of everything. So, even with silver down, you can’t buy.
Heres one youll remember
Checkat ole?
*** “Gas was around 90 cents a gallon” ***
I remember 13.5 cents a gallon ... had a 61 Pontiac Catalina 400 HO w Duel Quads (came stock with a 389 2 bbl) and I could afford to drive it as a Teenager (the Gas anyway, Tickets were another story)
I really miss that car ... known as a “Bubble Top” to me it is still the most Beautiful Car ever! It didn’t handle worth a crap and got about 4 miles per gallon but I LOVED it.
Lowest I’ve paid out of my pocket was .35 cents in 1969.
I can remember my folks paying .25 cents in the early 60’s.
“Oil Price” is pretty good when it sticks to what is happening in the oilfield relative to exploration and new fields of production, rig count, current production, demand salaries etc.
Never forget they are not honest brokers of truth if it is political. They are left of center and not to be trusted except on basic facts that can be confirmed. When an article talks about global politics more than the basic oilfield that is a sign of “beware what they say.”
I read “Oil Price.” The first half of my life was in the oilfields. I know Bull Sh-t in relationship to the oilfield when I read it.
I’m old enough to remember very cheap gas but even then I could barely afford it. ;)
I had a 1959 Volkswagon Bug. Rusted out floor, had an old license plate over the hole in the floor. Heater barely worked. Defroster didnt work. Id reach around to wipe the windshield at traffic lights.
We to 4 years of law school, during the 1977/78 snow blizzards, with minus 20 one Sunday. The Ohio river froze.
Id fill up for 3.00. Last me a week.
LOL. I too remember the barely working heater, wiping snow off the front window at traffic stops, and a slipping clutch. Good times. Brings back lots of fond memories. :)
LOL .. yep!
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17.9c in Missouri - early 60s.
“Massachusetts is on the verge of increasing gas taxes
When prices go down the rats try to use it to sneak through gas tax increases. Especially in states that use percentage.
It won’t sound like much until the prices go back up.
I remember I had a driveaway from Florida to Boston in the mid-70’s. I paid 23 or 24 cents/gallon in South Carolina.
I remember I had a driveaway from Florida to Boston in the mid-70’s. I paid 23 or 24 cents/gallon in South Carolina.
Oh wait... it was the early 70’s, around ‘72. Oil did its first OPEC spike around 1974.
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