Flashback Friday

[jbgroby]

I can barley remember these prices....

[balesjb]

Yesterday gas was $1.97, today it's $2.27 So why the 30¢ increase?

[flashed]

Greed .

[The Rocknrod]

I remember my dad always asking for Ethyl when the attendant came to the drivers window. It always made me think of Ethel Mertz on the I Love Lucy show.

[oem4me]

I remember clearly my mom routinely stopping for some quick gas while doing errands with us three kids bouncing around in the huge '66 Impala wagon. "A dollars worth of regular" she'd say to the attendant. Sheesh, times have changed.

[LostMy65]

$1 and I could cruise all night.

[jbgroby]

I never really paid much attention to the prices until the gas crunch of the early '70's. I remember the lines and when the price went up to $.55 my mom was ready to swear off driving.

[TJ's Chevy]

I wasn't even born yet. lol

[lil hoodlum]

LOL If you look a little more closely at the photo, you will notice there is someone standing behind the sign!


I noticed the feet first, then looked upward. It kinda actually lookes like my sister.


When I was in high school, gas was around the $1.00 mark. I remember I barely had any gas one morning and scrounched up enough change, .67 cents, to get to school and back. Now what will .67 cents buy you?

[Andy4639]

This was just last weekend heading over to the local truck meet.

[truckster]

Because Utah has oil from Utah and Wyoming wells and there are four refineries in the Salt Lake City area, fuel prices here are $2.75 for unleaded 85 octane.

Yup, something's wrong with this picture.

[GOPAPA]

Originally Posted by jbgroby

I never really paid much attention to the prices until the gas crunch of the early '70's. I remember the lines and when the price went up to $.55 my mom was ready to swear off driving.

You reminded me of when in 1974 I was on vacation driving with family through New Mexico and the gas prices was all the way up to .69 cents a gallon ,, that seemed our of this world to me at the time..
I also remembered my brand new 73 Chevy Cheyenne short box with a 14 gallon tank and this is when we had the gas shortage and not all filling stations had gas in their pumps..

[Bladeboy1998]

My buddy just got gas at home Depot for 0.019 cents per gallon! He spent 31 cents for 16.5 gallons of gas! That has to be an all time low.

[Restrorob]

This reminds me of the small town "gas wars" of the 60's, station owners would build billboard signs in the back of their pick-ups. They'd advertise gas for a couple cent cheaper then park their truck in front of the competitors station.

[balesjb]

I also remember the Gas Wars when stations would try to under cut others. Now days Gas War means who could charge the most.

[Ironhorse]

Well remember when I was in HS in the mid to late 60's the gas wars in Wichita were on every block. Lowest I can recall paying for gas was one time at 16.9 cents per gallon, had to be about '65 or so. My Dad always drove big Buicks and always remember when we went to a gas station him saying "put in a buck's worth of Ethyl" Only time he filled the tank was if we went on a trip. Ahh, the good ol' days, huh? In late '73 after I was out of the service gas went to 55 cents a gallon. Guess now days that would still be the good ol' days huh?

[CG]

Back in HS (70's) whenever we went "cruising" on Friday or Saturday nights the passengers would have to pony up a buckish for gas to the driver. Hard to believe 5 bucks or so would keep us dragging the gut all night lol.

[balesjb]

I remember in the 60's I could hardly get $5.00 in the tank.

[Super_Dave]

...ahhh, 1972 all over again!