Posted on 05/22/2007 7:57:30 PM PDT by mombyprofession
How else can the Governor provide an iPod for each child?
Paid $3.40 today in Kentucky.
I never thought it would cost me $40+ to fill up my 94’ Escort.
I remember paying $1.00 a gallon back in 97/98
This is why I would never, ever live there.
I remember filling up on December 31, 1999 at the shockingly high price of $1.37/gallon.
I also remember 99 cents/gallon in December of 2001.
Memories.....
I’d love to get out. I’m currently jobless, due to the lovely new state regulations, I no longer qualify for a job I’ve done for 14 years. I’m stuck in a home that I can’t sell, and my family lives nearby, so I hate to leave them.
I remember here in VA during those years gas got down to .79cents per gallon for the cheap stuff. I ran high octane at that time because it was very affordable. I remember being irritated just 4 years ago when the price went up to $1.30, and now look where we are!
Whatever the cause, you can be sure it's NOT that the oil companies are making obscene profits at our expense. No sireee! They're just honest businessmen trying to scratch out a living in the dog-eat-dog world of free market capitalism.
When I worked at "Oscar's Flying A" gas station back in 1965/66 before I joined the Marine Corps, it was around a quarter ... it was no joke then when somebody'd drive in and say, "A dollar's worth of your finest, please!"
(Best part of that job was that almost nightly, lonely Mrs. Madsen would take a drive, and start it off at the gas station....we kids loved to wash the windshield, over and over and over and over again - she was a flasher)
I just discovered this website last week and am very impressed with some of its explanations and realized predictions:
http://www.thegasgame.com/
There's even a photo of three gas station signs from Feb through May of this year showing the 84% increase.
Hey- when we got married, everything became yours and mine. ;) Love you, honey....
That tends to happen when democrats get elected.
REFINERIES!! NOW
I would suggest just staying home, enjoy your family, do housework, start a hobby, read a book, don’t drive this holiday weekend!
Ha! 19.9 cents, Columbia, Missouri, 1969. My all-time rock bottom price. Columbia had the first serve-yourself gas station that I ever ran across, too. It was called “U-Pump-Ethyl” — No kidding! I always wanted to meet Ethyl, but she never showed up.
Sounds familiar, I have a 4 year degree and I still work at the grocery store.
I don’t remember what year it was but I can remember my parents being quite upset that gas was $1.00 a gallon. I think the exact quote was “It can’t get any higher”.
Never say never I guess.
Finally diesel is the cheapest fuel again, although it is $2.97. We bought out truck when diesel was cheapest, then Katrina hit and it has been all down hill since then.
From different locations. I do not believe any location has seen an 84% increase. National Average is ~38%
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