Gas pumps and low gas prices!!!!

JDseller · Feb 22, 2011

I started a thread on the tool forum about how cheap you remember gas. I was just reading it and wondered how many remembered when they had to change the pumps to read for a half gallon because the old mechanical pumps only had two rows of numbers. I remember having to watch out because you had to double what the pump read. This was at the local little gas station carry out. I think it was in 1978-1980. It was right in there.

RayP(MI) · Feb 22, 2011

Yeah, remember the half gallon pumps. Didn"t take long to retrofit the pumps with multiple dollar pricing, however.

Jg20601 · Feb 22, 2011

I remember having to do that. When you pulled in and wanted $10 of gas, you pumped $5.

OldFarmTractor · Feb 22, 2011

I hope they don't add another digit to the price.

IaGary · Feb 22, 2011

I wasn"t driving yet but I remember dad paying .16 a gallon. When it went to .20 everyone had fits.

When I started driving it was .32 a gallon but went over .50 within 6 months.

Yup the local stations could only go to 99.9 cents a gallon.

Within about 3 years everyone had installed new pumps. You doubled the bill till the pumps got changed. If gas was 1.10 the old pumps said 55 and you doubled it just like the others said.

Remember all the long lines at the pumps to fill?

Gary

rrlund · Feb 22, 2011

Kinda reminds me of the grave stones that couples bought when the husband passed away and the wifes name was on there too. They would say 19-- and just had to be filled in when she passed away. Felt sorry for some of those old gals in 1999. Little did they know they had less than a year to live.

But on the original post,I do remember the independent gas station here in town having the price of gas painted on the side of the building for YEARS in letters two feet high. Regular 32.9 Premium 34.9. Never seemed to cross anybodys mind that it might ever change.

Gun guru · Feb 22, 2011

I remember a place just north of Detroit that had a huge sign that displayed the price of their gasoline.
Well in the early 80's I drove by it with my dad and asked why gas was only .05 per gallon. My dad replied that they never would have thought they would need to have to sell gas for over a $1 a gallon. So the price was $1.05 per gallon.

Bill(Wis) · Feb 22, 2011

I remember the day that gasoline rationing ended. It was announced many times over that you could now drive into any filling station and say: "fill 'er up", but at 25 cents per gallon maybe not everyone would be able to do that.

Bill(Wis) · Feb 22, 2011

I remember the day that gasoline rationing ended. It was announced many times over that you could now drive into any filling station and say: "fill 'er up", but at 25 cents per gallon maybe not everyone would be able to do that.

Billy Shafer · Feb 22, 2011

I remember the gas wars in our town in the sixties. 18 to 15 cents a gallon. My father had a fit when gas hit 20 cents.

When I came home from nam in 1972. Pulled into a gas station and pulled back out. Because gas was .75.

rrlund · Feb 22, 2011

I remember the lines WHEN the stations were open. One of the most sinking feelings I ever got was on the milk route in 1974 when,on a Sunday,I got to the General Store/Gas Station out in the middle of nowhere where I always got my second tank of gas,and they were closed.

BCnT · Feb 22, 2011

cheapest i remember was back in late '70...new station in town had regular LEADED for .10/9 a gallon...gas wars led to .15 gallons alot...19/9 was the norm at most self serv [new novelty back then] and full serv Enco,Texaco,Shell,etc were .31/9 for regular.

anybody remember white gas back then being cheaper than regular by about a nickel...then epa stuck their noses in and mandated unleaded[white gas] and price was a nickel higher because they supposedly had to remove the lead additive...yaaaaaaa rite...charge more to remove or just quit adding it...its all a racket

CLTX · Feb 22, 2011

I remember gas in the late '40s being 18.9 cents for a long time. Dad told me that he was paying 5 cents for a gallon in bulk at that time. In 1974, towboats were paying 5 cents for diesel, according to one captain. That was just before the first jump in fuel prices.

Bill(Wis) · Feb 22, 2011

The cheapest and easiest way to raise the octane of qasoline is to add tetra-ethyl lead to it. To have to remove the lead means that a more expensive method has to be employed to raise the octane level. Unless you want to run 60 octane in your car.

Old Roy · Feb 22, 2011

used to help out one of our local hometown stations that sold gas in the late 50's . during the week sold it for .24 and .26 gave tickets away for 10 gal for Sat drawing. on weekends the price was dropped a penny

S.Crum · Feb 22, 2011

I see gas is at $3.32 and Diesel at $3.85 tonight on the way home. I guess the Kadaffy libya fiasco is the oil company's latest poor excuse for raising/gouging prices. The Williams oil cartel didn't hesitate to jump on the bandwagon.

Nebraska Cowman · Feb 22, 2011

Oh yeah, I remember. I thought $1.65 an hour was good wages too. My first new vehicle was a 1972 Datsun pickup. $2150 and I drove it off the showroom floor. I could drive all week on $3 worth of gas.

Cockshutt Mike · Feb 22, 2011

When I closed my station in 1973 due to gas shortage (RIGHT, SURE THERE WAS) regular was 29.9 and hightest was 32.9 and company gave me a 2 cent per gal kickback for trucks that I gave to anyone who had truck. I made 2 cents a gal on regular and 3 cents on hightest.

big orange · Feb 22, 2011

Worked in a gas station in the later 60's, regular was 35 cents and premium 39 cents. Varied between 30 and 40 cents, gas wars cut the price in half. Gave full service for that price, pumped gas, washed windows and checked under the hood,amazing how far we've came in 45 years.

john in la · Feb 22, 2011

I never hear anyone complaining their paycheck is 3 times what it was 30 years ago; but let gasoline prices go up and everybody gets upset.

NCWayne · Feb 22, 2011

Three times what it was thirty years ago...maybe until this depression hit. Last I looked out in the real world they were wanting to pay the same wages they were paying twenty odd years ago for twice the work........ Take the cost of gas and the amount of it wasted setting in the traffic jams that weren't around twenty years ago and I don't think the rise in cost can really be justified.

What really gets me about the whole deal is the fact that until a few years ago youy could go clear across town and not see but maybe a few cents difference in the price of a gallon of gas. Nowdays I have seen as much as a 20 cent difference across town and as much as 5 to 10 cent difference at stations across the road from each other. I understand the whole deal of the big sellers being able to buy 'more for less' and pass those savings on but when the difference is between two stations of the same kind it just doesn't make any sense at all.......

jm. · Feb 22, 2011

I remember well when I started driving gas was 17 cents and you got tickets or cupons that you saved for other things 1957.

Jimmy Z. · Feb 23, 2011

Say what you will, who knows the REAL story- you know, the truth? What are the company's REALLY doing to us? How about this one- Does a "gallon" really measure a US gallon?........

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