Re: Gas Prices - No A.C. (Audi Content)

[knotnook@traverse.com]

Hey, Phil:  I can remember purchasing gas for seventeen cents a gallon back
in the late '50's, and a great uproar when it went to quarter a gallon.  It
was common practice to buy $5 worth of gas rather than a fill-up because it
amounted to almost the same thing.

Kneale Brownson


At 09:50 PM 4/2/99 -0400, Phil Rose wrote:
>>Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 15:38:33 EST
>>From: PlyBoyDoct@aol.com
>>Subject: Re: Gas Prices - No A.C. (Audi Content)
>>
>>The gas station I ususally go to is at 1.65 now.  It use to be 1.16  And they
>>forsee a 2.00 per gallons in a few months.  Gas prices too high?  it sure is!
>>
>>Jason C
>>89 200t10v - only getting 19.6 MPG!  HELP!!!
>
>Jason,
>As they say (much too often, IMHO), "Get real!" Just how low would you like
>gas prices to be?
>
>As of today, here in the East, the price for 93 oct. premium has gone all
>the way up (irony mode on, please) to $1.31/gallon; regular is about $1.20.
>This is still lower--adjusted for inflation--than at any time I can recall
>in the past 40 years (and I'm gonna turn 60 tomorrow, so I'm not talkin'
>about second-hand history). As an 18 yr-old, I paid about $0.30/gal for
>leaded regular (any *no one* complained about the too-high price of gas).
>And that was back when 20 mpg was considered pretty decent gas economy. And
>the distances people "needed" to drive were every bit as great as today.
>Minimum wage laws didn't exist, but unskilled labor commonly got around
>$1.25-1.50/hr (even $1/hr wasn't uncommon at the burger-flipping level),
>and $6000/yr was considered a fairly livable wage. So now, even near
>$2/gal, prices would be just slightly higher than in those times. Those
>times when the oil didn't have to be transported 5000 miles across a couple
>of oceans.
>
>Since in a few hours I'll be a certifiable ol' curmudgeon, I'll celebrate
>by contributing this little reality-check for those who think life has
>gotten so tough at the gas pump. Save the hankies for when you see $3 and
>$4/gallon, but don't expect any sympathy from the rest of the world.
>
>
>Phil Rose				Rochester, NY
>'91 200q				mailto:pjrose@servtech.com
>'89 100
>
>