WOW!!!

[electra225]

I just paid $5.36.9 for premium gas for the Mini this morning. This is the most I have ever paid for gasoline in my life. Regular is $4.59.9 at the Circle K. I did get a free car wash for our second vehicle, so that paid the difference in price. I reckon I broke even and I have two clean vehicles. There was a guy in there buying premium for his Dodge Ram pickup that he said got 8 miles to the gallon, so I guess maybe I'm not all that bad off, come to think of it....

[TC Chris]

I remember gas at $0.25 - $0.35 per gallon, as surely you do, so there has been a lot of expectation-adjusting during my lifetime at the gas pump. Of course, I also remember when you could not pump your own gas.

There is work being done toward passenger train service from Detroit to my corner of the state. In the summer, vast numbers of cars filled with families white-knuckle it up the highways for vacations and weekend getaways. I''m always going the other way in an empty lane, thinking how much more pleasant the migration would be for those folks if they were sitting in a train car, reading, listening, chatting. None of the "are we there yet?" or "I've gottta go." The tracks are in place but they have to be upgraded to allow passenger speeds that will make people get out of their cars.

Chris Campbell

[electra225]

There was a gas war in our little town in 1965 or 1966. The truck stop south of town was selling gas 8 gallons for a dollar. There were several gas stations in a town of 2500 people, a rural town, to be sure, but still a small town. Today, that little town has no place to buy gas at all. There were two Marathon stations, one on each end of town, owned by the same man. There was a DX station, Sunoco, Shell, Standard, Gulf, Cities Service, two Texaco stations, two truck stops and five independents. One Independent would give kids in a car those little 6 ounce Cokes to drink while their parents got gas. He washed the windshield with a corn cob. My Buick wouldn't burn that low-octane truck stop gas, but dad hauled it home in ten-gallon milk cans and dumped it in the farm gas tank. I worked at the Cities Service station, starting when I was 13. I cleared $21.21 per week, working at premium money, $1.25 an hour. Most of the other gas stations only paid 95 cents an hour. Even if I bought Super Shell "ethyl" for the Buick at 32.9 cents a gallon, the tank had to be so empty that the gas gauge needle disappeared into the instrument panel to get 5 dollars worth of gas in it, even then I had to shake the rear of the car side to side to get all the air out in order to get the last few cent's worth of gas in......

[Conelrad]

There was a big hubbub in Yuma back in '59 or so. Diesel went up 50% overnight at the Jet truckstop, from 2C to 3C per. Yes, that's Cents.

When I started driving in '71, I could fill up a 5-gal jerrycan for a Dollar. 19.9 per at the Blakeley station.

Paid $5.19 for Diesel yesterday. Ouch.

D

[Doug]

Old as me.
About 1971 or so I needed gas to ride my go carts.so I would ride my back 1 mile to town and buy gas and hold it next to the handle bar back home.
So one day I went to neighbor about 2 blocks away .his dad had a motorcycle business in which had a tank for gas. .his son said he's not suppose to sell it .So I offered
35cents for a gallon.pump it for me and gave me a bottle of pop
So about 72 73 driving my dad's 55 Chevy with some friends ran out of gas just coasted into a gas station.all I had was a quarter.ask friends if the had any money .no

Well tha 25 cents got me a gallon and made it home.
Next day on my freinds said he was holding out on me he did have couple quarters

I miss those days

[Doug]

About 73 74 gas was about 35 cents then came the scare of gas shortage and may have ration gas.so price jumped to 70 some cents.
So some gas stations would have on their sign 49 cents
You whip into the gas station.
In small print it was for cigarettes
That was a crock

[Doug]

State taxes ohio at 38 c Michigan 48c Arizona 19c
https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/stat ... xes-state/
California ouch

[electra225]

When I started running trucks, fuel was 18.6 cents off the tank wagon for red farm fuel. The green fuel where road tax was paid was generally between 34.9 and 39.9 cents a gallon, some places like the big truck stops, Union 76 and those, it might be 42.9. About two months after I bought a new 1978 Mack, fuel went up to 45.9. Panic set in the grain hauling industry. Continental grain started paying 35 cents a bushel "to the river", so that was the going rate off the farm as well. We'd been getting 25 cents to the river previously. I had three hopper-bottom trailers and two flats with sides. The hoppers could all scale 1250 bushels, give or take. The flats did 1100. It was about 200 miles to the Ohio River terminals from where we were based. Halfway down, in Princeton, Continental had their processing facility. If you had dry, clean grain, they sent you on down to the river facility where they loaded barges. You had to have a bill of lading from Princeton before you could dump at the river. If the grain you had was "wet" or "dirty", too many cob chunks, hunks of corn shuck, or just plain dirt, then the load got "gigged", charges Continental incurred to clean and dry the grain so it could go to the river. We got 100,000 bushel contracts to haul grain from Princeton to the river. I ran five rigs, each made three rounds a day. Each truck got back hauls so our deadheading was at a minimum. Each truck made $550-600 dollars a round. The Macks used 40 gallons of fuel per round, the Cummins and Detroits used 50-55 gallons, depending on the wind. It cost me an extra $200 a day in fuel when the price went from 39.9 to 45.9. Hard to imagine that being a big deal today......

[TC Chris]

What was the back-haul?

Chris Campbell

[MEZLAW]

When I started driving, I couldn't squeeze $5 worth of gas when the tank was empty in my 1964 Galaxie. I also remember guy's at work stating; "If gas gets up to 50 cents a gallon, I will quit driving. I noticed yesterday most stations were at $3.79. I'm just glad I don't drive every day anymore.

[electra225]

Diesel fuel at the Circle K just down the street is $6.19.9 this morning. Regular gas is $4.99.9. If I drive six miles to the east, diesel at the Circle K there is $5.35.9, regular gas is $4.19.9. Drive to a little town 20 miles away, regular is $4.17 and I paid $4.77 for premium for my turbocharged car. 82 cents a gallon less money than what they are charging here in town.......

[Doug]

When they going to get rid of the 9/10 .009 thats on the price of gas.
In the day 35 cents and saw sign 34 cents with 9/10 in small print so you thought station was 2 cent cheaper
Today its 3.99.9
Just say its $4

[William]

$4.19 here for regular.