COMPARING 1966 to 2006

[Not So Fast]

When I got out of the Navy I became a framer (carpenter) and I took home about $100 @week. My dad would say damn, thats a lot of money son. Fast forward to now, just filled the portside tank and $103. WOW, and I seem to remember gas was about $.50 back then. :frown: NSF

[Havasu Hangin']

Everytime I think I have it bad at $700/tank...
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/511/74Fridays_Gas.jpg
...I remember there's always some worse off than me.
:cry:

[No Name]

When I got out of the Navy I became a framer (carpenter) and I took home about $100 @week. My dad would say damn, thats a lot of money son. Fast forward to now, just filled the portside tank and $103. WOW, and I seem to remember gas was about $.50 back then. :frown: NSF
Boy have the times changed. My son just took job while he is out of collage for the summer with a hardwood floor installer as a helper. He is making almost 500.00 a week witch is nice for me because it gives me a break from paying for everything he needs. Just the other day he was complaining about the price of gas. I told him you’re making good money now what’s the big deal. He looked right at me and said I really don’t want to spend my cash that I have worked so hard for. Yet he has no problem pissing my money away. :rollside:

[uvindex]

Everytime I think I have it bad at $700/tank...
...I remember there's always some worse off than me.
:cry:You got that right. This one has a fuel capacity of 15-thousand gallons! :boxed:
http://www.yachtforums.com/forums/attachments/millennium-yacht/4659-millennium-140-super-yacht-review-m-140-bb60blue3.jpg?d=1103148448

[77charger]

Everytime I think I have it bad at $700/tank...
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/511/74Fridays_Gas.jpg
...I remember there's always some worse off than me.
:cry:
I think 200 gallons would sink a so called potato chip boat wouldnt it.

[Warlockjer]

Hey Bobby, back in 67 $1.00 could get me 3 gallons of gas. We chipped in to come up with a buck, but cruised all night on that. Boy have times changed. Also brought home about $70.00 a week. :) :)

[JetBoatRich]

I was only 2 in 66 :p and don't remember much :rolleyes: but I do remeber going down to get gas for the lawn mower as a kid :rolleyes: arpund .50 a gallon

[Not So Fast]

Hey Bobby, back in 67 $1.00 could get me 3 gallons of gas. We chipped in to come up with a buck, but cruised all night on that. Boy have times changed. Also brought home about $70.00 a week. :) :)
Yeah Jerry, gas may have been around $.35@gallon back then?? I know I bought a 1963 Plymouth Sport Fury,426 Wedge/auto for $3600 including tax!! 1970 El Camino SS 396 for I thnk about $4700? 1974 Porsche 911 for $12,000. Christ, I just looked at a Toyota Scion XB and it was almost $20,000, times have changed haven't they. Wonder how things will change in the next 40 years :idea: NSF

[jbone]

About 8 yrs ago, I was filling up my 18 ft Baja Bayrunner (fishing boat) with all of about 12 gallons. The aprox. 50 ft private yacht finishing up at the fuel dock in Point Loma had just put $15,000 worth of gas in.
Oh, and this boat had a full rig of sails too.
J

[Flying Tiger]

34 cents a gallon at the Christianos Rd Gas Station at Camp Pendelton.
I remember once it hit 29 cents for a few days.
All is not lost, we have hope for a cheaper future in 105 Octane clean burning, renewable E85: Here is a link of interest:
http://www.e85fuel.com/index.php

[Freak]

34 cents a gallon at the Christianos Rd Gas Station at Camp Pendelton.
I remember once it hit 29 cents for a few days.
All is not lost, we have hope for a cheaper future in 105 Octane clean burning, renewable E85: Here is a link of interest:
http://www.e85fuel.com/index.php
Now I'm not trying to be a dick. I realize people just do not know or understand.
E85 offers no hope. It will make a few some big money for a short time that's all.
Rising price of growing oil alternatives raises demand for oil.
Troubling news from the folks who bring you grain-based ethanol:
"In February, the USDA forecast that U.S. farmers would spend 12.5 percent more on fuels and oils this year compared with last, with the highest prices this year occurring in the first six months. Fertilizer costs in 2006 are expected to be 6.5 percent higher.
While those percentage increases are smaller than they were in 2005, crop farmers' costs have risen sharply in the past several years, agribusiness leaders said.
That's right: The oil-based products and services used to raise everyone's favorite "alternative fuel" are getting more expensive.
How does Big Ag want to respond to this crisis?
"Earlier this month, Iowa agribusiness leaders called on the U.S. Congress to loosen restrictions on oil and natural gas exploration in the Gulf of Mexico. U.S. law prohibits exploration of fields within 200 miles of the Gulf Coast. The newly formed Iowa Consumer Alliance for Energy Security wants Congress to change that."
LOL... drill for more oil!!!! So we can make cheaper E85????? How stupid is that??? LOL..we just went full circle people.....
"High energy costs are a hardship on all of us," Heartland Cooperative's Coppess said during a May 9 press conference at the Iowa Capitol in Des Moines. The group is part of a national coalition pushing for increased domestic production of energy sources. Iowans involved in the effort are calling for passage of a bill pending in the U.S. Senate that would allow production inside the 200-mile barrier.
The feedstock for everyone's favorite alternative fuel can't be grown without oil and natural gas. So rising demand for that liquid-fuel alternative is raising demand for ... the very liquid fuels it's an alternative too. LOL....Oh, the bitter irony!
But surely corn can be raised without all these fossil fuels? Uh:
For grain handlers, farm equipment manufacturers and other agribusinesses, energy costs have become the difference between red ink and black.
"Our business does very little without a lot of transportation fuel expense," said Magnuson, manager of the cooperative in Sully. "It's running the trucks. It's delivering feed. It's floaters in the field, and it's high-clearance sprayers. It's all of our equipment. So that increase is a very substantial part of the impact on our bottom line."
The absurdity of turning to our petro-soaked agricultural sector to free us from oil will, I expect, only grow more obvious and glaring in coming years.

[DelawareDave]

Let's see- 1967- graduated HS. Gas was around 24 cents a gallon in NJ. Pack of cigs- 27 cents at the drugstore. Minimum wage- $1.10, I believe. Damn- hard to believe it was that long ago! Almost 40 years! :(

[havaduner]

Boy have the times changed. My son just took job while he is out of collage for the summer with a hardwood floor installer as a helper. He is making almost 500.00 a week witch is nice for me because it gives me a break from paying for everything he needs. Just the other day he was complaining about the price of gas. I told him you’re making good money now what’s the big deal. He looked right at me and said I really don’t want to spend my cash that I have worked so hard for. Yet he has no problem pissing my money away. :rollside:
God this is familiar. I just had a conversation with my son this morning before he left for work. We're leaving for Havasu in a couple hours. He has to work till 6:30 tonite, but has tomorrow off. He's agonizing over driving out tonite cuz gas is so expensive, yet if he stays home he'll blow more money on nothing than the gas to get to the river would have cost...
Welcome to adulthood son, and get used to the expression " you have to pay to play"

[2Driver]

On the good side...
During your lifetime it was most likely easier to save for retirement.
You will get something from Social Security
Heart and some cancer treatments are now routinely successful
Lasik surgery
Viagra :rollside:
You have $$$ and don't have to work unless you want to
$3/gallon seems like a small trade off. :rollside:

[life's a river]

I was only 2 in 66 :p and don't remember much :rolleyes: but I do remeber going down to get gas for the lawn mower as a kid :rolleyes: arpund .50 a gallon
I remember going for gas for the lawn mower as well. Riding my bike with the can in one hand. It was easy going to the station but a bitch coming back with the extra weight.
These days you would have the law after the parents for letting a kid do that.
LAR

[riverracerx]

kids don't even mow the lawn anymore? When was the last time you saw that happen? Now they might get a rash or allegies if they mow the lawn, or sweat outside.
I got paid to wash the car, mow the lawn, take out the trash, etc. I had to earn my keep and do what I was told. The money was little but just enough incentive.

[Ziggy]

I remember taking my go-kart that had a 1 gal tank and a quarter to the station and hoping it wouldn't overflow..........
Plus I wanted change to go nextdoor to 7/11(when they opened at 7 and closed at 11) :D :D