hows this for cheap gas

[mobldj]

f..in oil companys

[STV_Keith]

Yeah, rub it in! :devil: :D

[RiverToysJas]

According to a website I found....$.70 in 1977 is equal to $2.60 now. I'm paying less than $3/gallon right now...so we're not totally out of line....
RTJas :D <--- ready for my A$$ Kicking. :smile_sp

[RiverToysJas]

Crap, I remember when that hurt like hell...
See.....not much different than today! :D

[Dream Chaser]

what school was that? I was in one of those truck clubs

[Warlockjer]

Us old farts remember it being in the .20s:)

[Ziggy]

Us old farts remember it being in the .20s:)
I remember taking my go cart with a one gal tank with my quarter(.25c) to the gas station praying it didn't overflow..:D

[GunninGopher]

How much was a nice 3/4 ton truck in '77, about $10,000 ? It's 4-5x that now.

[jbone]

Here is a list of global prices.
Check out the cheepest price of gas.
http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lists/global_gasprices/

[Flyinbowtie]

I was having this conversation with one of my sons the other day.
In the spring of 1976, I was 17 and working at a self-serve ARCO station on the corner of Orange and South St. in north Long Beach.
(Maybe it was Orange and Market, can't remember)
Minimum wage, if memory serves, was $2.25 per hour, and that is what I was making.
I worked the afternoon-evening shift, after school. The manager would tell me whenever there was going to be a price change the next day, and I'd top off the Camaro before I closed up that night.
One night, he told me that ARCO "Clear" (unleaded regular) was going to go to jump from 49.9 to 50 cents a gallon the next morning. I called everybody I knew and told them to get down and top off, the big 5-0 was in the wings.
At two and a quarter an hour, my one hour of work would buy about four and a half gallons of gas for the hot rod, unless I had the timing cranked up and needed 98 octane premium for some nefarious purpose.:D
Today, my youngest is making around seven eighty-five an hour, it is his first job baggin' groceries. That'll buy him about two gallons of 87 octane garbage for his ten year old Tacoma.
So, just from that point of view, a kid making a little better than minimum wage, which has tripled and then some, can buy just about half as much gas today as I could 31 years ago, when I was making minimum wage.
To put another perspective on it, my Dad bought a brand new 1972 Chevrolet "Custom Deluxe 20" 3/4 ton long bed 2wd truck with a 350, turbo 400, 4.10 gears and dual gas tanks from a dealer in Paramount. It was the first brand new vehicle he'd ever owned, he was 45, and damn near put me and my sis through the windshield the first time he stomped on the power brakes.
He'd never owned a pickup with power brakes before.
He paid $4,128.34 for the truck. Cash. He'd saved for two years.
Mom still has the paperwork.
There was a brand new '73 "Cheyenne Super" right behind it, 4x4, camper special, 454 Turbo 400, Air, all the bells and whistles, and the sticker on it was a touch over 5k. I liked it, it was bright red. He looked, and walked back to the '72.
"Son, it'll be a cold day in hell when I pay five grand for a vehicle, and if I did, it sure as hell won't be a damn truck. These people are nuts."
:rolleyes:
I was about 40 when I bought my first new truck, a '97 f-350 4x4 CC turbodiesel longbed, all the bells and whistles.
He passed on in 1983, but I heard him laughing when I bought that truck.
It was a bit more than 5k...:rolleyes:

[mobldj]

hell i remember getting gas in 73 on odd and even days remember that,my first job was 1.65 an hour at a rental yard in rubidoux.adjust the price compared to back when or whatever but gas is the only thing that really need to be regulated,common alternative fuels!:sleeping:

[Devil's Advocate]

I remember taking my go cart with a one gal tank with my quarter(.25c) to the gas station praying it didn't overflow..:D
awwwee, how cute.:D We had a go-cart too.:D

[pw_Tony]

See.....not much different than today! :D
That's exaclty what I've been telling people for a while. It's mostly just inflation

[DSW]

Nation City Price in USD Regular/Gallon
Netherlands Amsterdam $6.48
Norway Oslo $6.27
Italy Milan $5.96
Denmark Copenhagen $5.93
Belgium Brussels $5.91
Sweden Stockholm $5.80
United Kingdom London $5.79
Germany Frankfurt $5.57
France Paris $5.54
Portugal Lisbon $5.35
Hungary Budapest $4.94
Luxembourg $4.82
Croatia Zagreb $4.81
Ireland Dublin $4.78
Switzerland Geneva $4.74
Spain Madrid $4.55
Japan Tokyo $4.24
Czech Republic Prague $4.19
Romania Bucharest $4.09
Andorra $4.08
Estonia Tallinn $3.62
Bulgaria Sofia $3.52
Brazil Brasilia $3.12
Cuba Havana $3.03
Taiwan Taipei $2.84
Lebanon Beirut $2.63
South Africa Johannesburg $2.62
Nicaragua Managua $2.61
Panama Panama City $2.19
Russia Moscow $2.10
Puerto Rico San Juan $1.74
Saudi Arabia Riyadh $0.91
Kuwait Kuwait City $0.78
Egypt Cairo $0.65
Nigeria Lagos $0.38
Venezuela Caracas $0.12 :sqeyes: :sqeyes:

[FASTERDAMITT]

back in the daze in Ohio it was a lucky to be a monthly event to the mall 20 miles away. Here in Calif thats about my daily drive takin the kids to school and back. Now I know where my retirement fund went.:D

[GunninGopher]

To put another perspective on it, my Dad bought a brand new 1972 Chevrolet "Custom Deluxe 20" 3/4 ton long bed 2wd truck with a 350, turbo 400, 4.10 gears and dual gas tanks from a dealer in Paramount. It was the first brand new vehicle he'd ever owned, he was 45, and damn near put me and my sis through the windshield the first time he stomped on the power brakes.
He'd never owned a pickup with power brakes before.
He paid $4,128.34 for the truck. Cash. He'd saved for two years.
Mom still has the paperwork.
There was a brand new '73 "Cheyenne Super" right behind it, 4x4, camper special, 454 Turbo 400, Air, all the bells and whistles, and the sticker on it was a touch over 5k. I liked it, it was bright red. He looked, and walked back to the '72.
"Son, it'll be a cold day in hell when I pay five grand for a vehicle, and if I did, it sure as hell won't be a damn truck. These people are nuts."
:rolleyes:
I was about 40 when I bought my first new truck, a '97 f-350 4x4 CC turbodiesel longbed, all the bells and whistles.
He passed on in 1983, but I heard him laughing when I bought that truck.
It was a bit more than 5k...:rolleyes:
In 1999 I bought a '72 Custom Deluxe 2wd with the 400/400 (big block) for $7000!!! The thing was in great shape. The price doubled over the 30 years.
I just bought my first new vehicle (I'm 35). A 2007 Silverado 2500HD LTZ Crew. Went diesel and most everything else. The OTD price was $48,500. I swear, even 3 years ago I wouldnt' have ever thougth I would spent that much on any vehicle, until I drove my dad's 2002. Great truck and it will last as good as my old '72.
Chevy builds a good truck.

[smokinjoe]

in 1986 i bought a brand new GMC half ton short bed 4x4 loaded for about 13000. I have totaled it twice each time buying it back from the insurance company and rebuilding it and making out dollar wise like a bandit and its still my only new truck I have ever bought and dont plan to buy a new one anytime soon unless i hit the lotto. Im finding it real hard to part with that kind of money for a truck (50000) I guess im a cheap bastard and rather put it in my boat or harley