Holy price increase Batman

[Killgore]

Well, anyway...:-laf The point being that it seems too expensive. However, when I was a kid gas was 25 cents/gallon and bread was 19 cents a loaf, etc, and I started working construction at $1.375 per hour. It's still a bargain compared to what our brothers in Canada pay. My head spins though when I see a difference of 20 cents per gallon at the pumps within ten miles. The station can charge what it wants I reckon, and that's one of the reasons I have an auxiliary tank.
- Ed

 

[BIGNASTY]

Well, anyway...:-laf The point being that it seems too expensive. However, when I was a kid gas was 25 cents/gallon and bread was 19 cents a loaf, etc, and I started working construction at $1.375 per hour. It's still a bargain compared to what our brothers in Canada pay. My head spins though when I see a difference of 20 cents per gallon at the pumps within ten miles. The station can charge what it wants I reckon, and that's one of the reasons I have an auxiliary tank.
- Ed

........... :-laf

Isn't it amazing still today, I stand in line at the gas station and hear someone say $75 dollars on pump 5 please

I remember handing the clerk $5.00 and getting an almost full tank on my 57 Chevy, have enough to take my Babe to the drive in, stop on the way to have a burger and fries, then soda and popcorn at the drive in all for less than $20 bucks.

Making all of a $1.65 per hour at the Lincoln and Knott car wash, Ya!!! I love all this new technology that costs us an arm and leg Oo.

 

[Killgore]

I figure about ten cents on the dollar since the 1950's. Ouch! When the Fed finally turns loose the interest rate and the government printing presses finally slow down to get oiled, a lot of folks are going to really get greased. The Starbuck's generation will finally be forced to get off their cellphones and wake up.

 

[Jim W]

I too remember the $0.27 to $0.34 a gallon back in the late 60's and early 70's but my salary was only $2.25 an hour, $90.0 a week gross for forty hours. I drove a gas VW 1969 Beetle because it was $2,050.00 new and I was cheap.

When I retired I was over $100,000 a year in salary; but the price of goods and service are higher too. So is it better to have lower wages and lower prices or lived the standard of living we have all grown a custom too? That is the big question that I have.

Jim W.

 

[Killgore]

Yep, I think I have been down the same road including the Beetle. Only until all the kids got on their own did I begin to think I was gaining a little. Today we still budget down to the dollar so that we can roam around with the camper and splurge every now and then. Extravagant lifestyle? Far from it. Comfortable lifestyle? I guess so, but the most important thing has been a wife that pulled in the traces just as hard as me and was willing to back me 100%, and besides, she's as big a nut as me!

Do I yearn for the good old days? No Jim, what I went through to get where I am I would not want to go through again.
- Ed

 

[BIGNASTY]

Do I yearn for the good old days? No Jim, what I went through to get where I am I would not want to go through again.
- Ed

I Do want the good old days!! but like you no way am I able to do what I have done to get to the point we are at now.

 

[SnoKing]

Fueled up this morning! Snoking

#ad

 

[JR]

Must be nice! Still over $4 here....

It has at least dropped to within a few cents of regular so it's going in the right direction finally.

 

[mwilson]

$3.989 to $4.019 here in this area currently. Paid $98.00 for 24.393 gallons Saturday.

 

[TboneMan]

Must be nice! Still over $4 here....

It has at least dropped to within a few cents of regular so it's going in the right direction finally.

Yup! Ditto.

 

[Jim W]

I fueled up my wife's TDI yesterday paid $3.75 a gallon; Regular gas was $3.97 a gallon and Premium was $4:37 a gallon at the station.

I hope it stays this way thru the summer but who knows.

Jim W.

 

[Dutch & Di]

We were in the $4.19 to $4.29 range in northern California but crossed into Oregon yesterday and very pleased to see diesel at $3.86!!! Hugs, Di

 

[Wayne M.]

That's like going from NY to NJ. Usually a .40-.75 price spread.

 

[jgillott]

We are paying $4.15-$4.19 here right now. It was $4.20 in NY Memorial Day weekend.

 

[MerkelG]

Just spent three months in NZ. Petro 8.50 per gallon. Diesel 6.50 plus tax.

 

[Regcabguy]

We were in the $4.19 to $4.29 range in northern California but crossed into Oregon yesterday and very pleased to see diesel at $3.86!!! Hugs, Di

A couple of yrs ago we visited our friends in Gold Beach. My friend advised us to fill up in Brookings before heading home. Crescent City was $0.18/gallon higher. The price spread shrunk as we progressed south. What a difference!

 

[Regcabguy]

Just spent three months in NZ. Petro 8.50 per gallon. Diesel 6.50 plus tax.

I don't know how people do it. The bureaucrats must be fatter than here.

 

[JR]

I don't know how people do it. The bureaucrats must be fatter than here.

Nope, they just all drive tiny cars that get exceptional fuel mileage. You won't see a fraction of the trucks over there like you do here unless it is for commercial use. The company I work for is global and has a reliability guy come over from the mother country every time we do a rebrick on a reactor and he is amazed by the size of the cars over here let alone pick ups. I took him to lunch one day in my 98 and he about creamed himself when I lit the ol girl off...

We don't see it but he says "it's good to be an American, mate"

 

[BIGNASTY]

Columbia Falls MT, had it yesterday for $3.64 filled the aux tank with 30 gals and 15 in the main to make about a 50/50 mix in both BIO/DINO Diesel