(April 28, 2020 at 6:30 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:Well, you couldn't buy a soda with it, or a packet of crisps.(April 28, 2020 at 5:43 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: 1974 I ran across a gas war just south of the Oklahoma state line. Gas was $0.179/gal. Those were the good old days.
What does that come to in today's money?
Boru
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  (April 28, 2020 at 6:37 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:(April 28, 2020 at 6:30 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: What does that come to in today's money?Well, you couldn't buy a soda with it, or a packet of crisps. A bargain, then. Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
(April 28, 2020 at 6:38 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(April 28, 2020 at 6:37 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Well, you couldn't buy a soda with it, or a packet of crisps. The long version is I was going down to Laredo, TX, to help my brother move from the Air Force base there to one in Indiana. I rode with his father-in-law. He had pickup truck with a camper which had two aux. gas tanks, 25 gal. each, under the camper. Total capacity ~70 gallons. Just north of the Oklahoma state line we found gas for $0.259/gal and he topped off the tanks. (To give you so perspective the pumps only had one digit display for the dollar column.) And when he got down into Texas and saw gas for $0.08 less he was furious. 
Price went up $.16 overnight.. All stations within an hour....
I've seen military drill teams that couldn't operate with such precision..... Bastards... 
I filled up at Cumberland Farms last Tuesday. Gas was $1.859/gal.
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Cheapest fuel here is at the local CostCo at $2.60 for regular. Oh, California has "a special blend", doncha know!? Now take off state and federal taxes and the sales tax imposed on all of it and we's be under $2 a gallon as well.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
About $US4.70 here, which is down significantly.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
 RE: Got gas?
April 30, 2020 at 10:37 am
(This post was last modified: April 30, 2020 at 10:42 am by WinterHold.)
You meant gas, not "gas" ?
BTW, it's better if you used "fuel"; because the word "gas" is misleading. It's an international forum, you know. . . The post smells. (April 30, 2020 at 10:37 am)WinterHold Wrote: You meant gas, not "gas" ? The word 'gas' in context is only misleading to thunderingly ignorant people who can't grasp that it's short for 'gasoline'. I don't really think the OP was asking about the price of helium. Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
RE: Got gas?
April 30, 2020 at 11:03 am
(This post was last modified: April 30, 2020 at 11:05 am by WinterHold.)
(April 30, 2020 at 10:46 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(April 30, 2020 at 10:37 am)WinterHold Wrote: You meant gas, not "gas" ? When I read the title my mind immediately jumped to the video above. The word gas is used in the U.S only, around here we call it "Banzine", which is "fuel". Though I watched tons of American media to realize that Americans call "fuel" with "gas". Even "Friends" picked up on the word in the video I posted. |
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