Gas prices nearly doubled today

[jw]

Yesterday the pump prices were around $3.50 a gallon, today they jumped up to $6.10 a gallon. This is getting out of control. Soon no one will be able to afford to drive.

[Michael B]

Hey, they are only $5.82 in my area. It'll be a week or so before they go over the $6.00 mark. Enough time to do some more of the jack-rabbit starts at the lights, leave some rubber behind at the driveway, that sorta thing. Maybe buy a new truck with 15MPG rating. Shucks, no need to be trying to conserve. 'Cause we are 'Mericans, we DESERVE to be able to do that.

[LSMFT]

Where is this?

[Frank]

In the land of April fools ;)

[jeff_wisnia]

Be glad you're A plugger is a guy who remembers when gas cost $1 for FOUR gallons, now it costs $4 for ONE gallon.

Jeff

[LSMFT]

Remember when gas was 28 cents a gallon and a carton of cigarettes was 2 dollars? Maybe it still is and the money is no good.

[JimT]

I think the lowest I remember gas was 32 or 35 cents but that was just the last sign I remember. I must have been about 17 y/o. 1971

I remember back then we were much more concerned with the price of milk, bread and eggs.

I quit smoking just before cigarettes went over $1/pack.

1985

The cost to Saudi Arabia for a barrel of oil is $2.

Jim

[willshak]

What is the cost of crude oil pumped in the US a barrel?

[Frank]

I think, even is Saudi Arabia, the days of oil just flowing out of the ground are over. I remember a show where they said it cost them $40/barrel to drill and cart/pipe across the dessert. Something a lot of people don't understand is that there is plenty of oil but access makes it cost more. Shale oil must be extracted with heat or chemicals and I don't think there is any profit if commodity is going for $50/barrel.

When I was a kid, 18 cents would get you a loaf of bread, a pack of cigarettes, a quart of milk or a gallon of gas ;)

First house I rented in 1965 cost 15 cents/gallon for heating oil. I just spent $800 two weeks ago for 200 gallons to fill my oil tank.

[clare]

$4.83 and up a gallon here in central Ontario this morning

[WW]

I may be older than some of you. When gas went from $.11 to $.13 per gallon dad said we cannot drive unless needed. Milk was $.35 per gallon and came in a glass gallon container that had a wire loop handle for carrying. WW

[aemeijers]

Wish I could run my car on milk. Around here, it'd be cheaper.

[clare]

Yup, and you don't need to feed the gasburner when it's not working. Hayburners need feeding regardless.

[clare]

Good thing it doesn't run on fizzy water.

[aemeijers]

My van may be made by Chrysler, but it doesn't have a turbine. Don't think the onboard computer would know what to do with a half-alcohol half-water mix. Maybe moonshine that had been run through 3 times....

[jw]

You could run it on Vodka or Everclear....

[Robert Green]

Grandpa, is that you?!!! (-:

-- Bobby G.