Remember when gas was only $3.00 a gal.?

I may be telling my age but I dont care. I remember when gas was 92 cents a gallon. I just wish it would at least get back down to $3.00 a gallon.

It won't be long before you'll be asking if you remember $4.00 a gallon.

I was told yesterday that it will be $4.00+ a gallon across the country by Memorial Day weekend.

Glad my cars only sip the stuff. I feel sorry for everyone still driving those gas guzzlers but they knew this was coming. It's not like it hasn't been in the news for the last few years.

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Originally posted by Rolltideroll02:
I just wish it would at least get back down to $3.00 a gallon.

I'm not critizing you personally but it is that exact thinking that they want us to have. Prices will level out for a couple months and then start going up rapidly and we will all wish it was like it was juat a couple months ago. Why? We were gripping about $3.00 per gallon and saying that was too high, now we are asking for it.

i remember when gas was 39 cents a gallon. waaaay back in the 60's.... and i drove a new '68 automatic VW Bug. talk about a cheap fill-up!!

Today I was at a Shell Quick Mart in Sheffield and the manager said he had to raise the price six cents on a gallon of gas. It quickly went from $3.69 to $3.75 a gallon.

I'm so old I remember .28 a gallon.

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Originally posted by thehippiegirl:
i remember when gas was 39 cents a gallon. waaaay back in the 60's.... and i drove a new '68 automatic VW Bug. talk about a cheap fill-up!!

Same here! and a date once stopped and bought a half gallon of gas.....lol.
That relationship didn't last long.

when I first got my motorcycle license, I could rub 2 quarters together and ride all week. those day are long gone.

there is an upside to this,there are not quite as many teenagers out ripping the streets from boredom and as a source of entertainment.
oh and I am walking much more,heck i ran out of bread yesterday and walked to Hometown market,and it didn't kill me afterall(or at least thats must have been what i was thinking would happen all those years I would jump in the car to run fetch one item)LOL!

By this time next year I bet we'll be paying
$5.00 or more per gallon.

I remember when a quarter would fill my motorcycle up.....

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Originally posted by cjtl1000r:

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Originally posted by Rolltideroll02:
I just wish it would at least get back down to $3.00 a gallon.

I'm not critizing you personally but it is that exact thinking that they want us to have. Prices will level out for a couple months and then start going up rapidly and we will all wish it was like it was juat a couple months ago. Why? We were gripping about $3.00 per gallon and saying that was too high, now we are asking for it.

I agree, very good point.

I wonder what it cost just for a teenager to date now days? Gee, remember the days when you could take a date out on $15.00 and have change left?

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Originally posted by JJPAUL:
I wonder what it cost just for a teenager to date now days? Gee, remember the days when you could take a date out on $15.00 and have change left?

You make me feel so old ! One dollar for gas at 14 cents / gallon, a buck a head to get into the Shoals Theatre, and another buck would get some hamburgers and cokes afterwards at 15 cents each.

This much older citizen can remember pumping 23.9 a gallon gas back in 1956.

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Originally posted by thehippiegirl:
i remember when gas was 39 cents a gallon. waaaay back in the 60's.... and i drove a new '68 automatic VW Bug. talk about a cheap fill-up!!

well I remember when gas was 20 cents a Gallon they had these pumps with the Glass Bowl and you worked a handle back and forth to fill it up, Oil was $2.80 a Barrel, that was the good ole days when times were bad

I REMEMBER WHEN IT WAS A QUARTER A GALLON. WE ARE GETTING SCREWED BY THE OIL COMPANIES AND IT WILL ALL COME OUT SOMEDAY. LOOKS LIKE THEY ARE MAKING PEOPLE HOPE FOR THREE DOLLARS, PLAYING WITH PEOPLES BRAINS SO IT WILL NEVER GO DOWN TO WHERE IT COULD BE!