Sticker shock at the gas pump

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by midnight Target
I had a Veedub too. Fastback, with the requisite hippie tapestry seat covers and sky blue paint job. I paid $400 for it and it had a $200 stereo system (8-track of course).

'65 squareback here, jet black, with aftermarket 8-Track.  Paid $200 for it in 1976.

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by jigsaw
Cost me just under $40.00 to fill 7/8 of a tank today.  Thinking it's time to tarp the Jeep and untarp the bike until it gets too cold to ride.

Dating myself, but I can remember when gas was $.50 /gallon.

Ok, I'm finished venting for a while

In 1976, the first year I was driving, gas was $.065 a gallon where I lived.

Today, $2.00 a gallon.

Now, when I use the inflation calculator, it shows that $2.00/a gallon was $.061 a gallon in 1976.

Go figure..

[lazs2]

seems like every decade or so people forget just how bad those cars were and get all nostalgic about em again...  they forget all the people killed when the car rolled on the freeway because wind caused it to go into dramatic under/oversteer... they forget that you couldn't take a 20 mile drive without seeing a veedub on the side of the road with it's little trunk lid open letting the smoke out from the siezed engine... they forget the anoying being behind one on the uphill and then having it tailgate you at 80 on the long downhill...

And most of all they forget that every fair sized city had a couple of shops that would swap out your worn out engine for a new one during lunch and that those shops were the busiest auto repair shops around.

lazs

[Gixer]

My first car was a beaten up old Ford Falcon XA Coupe, and the car I wish I'd never sold.  :-(





...-Gixer

[Meatwad]

Seems like the cost of gas didnt really jump up except for the past few years.  Back in the summer several years ago I remember it actually DROPPED to 99 cents a gallon over in missouri.

[cpxxx]

Originally posted by Holden McGroin
We make much more than that.  About 130K is the poverty line, the streets are paved with gold, and 84% of us are either in cattle, automobile production, petroleum, or the movie business.

The other 16% are into some form of litigation or politics.

Even lowly Austrian immigrants are virtually assured untold wealth and success in movies and politics.

How do you live???? Our streets are paved with diamonds. I only work one day a week and that is just to sign for my pay which is paid straight to my Swiss bank account.
 We don't use cars much because helicopters are so much more convenient. But if we did petrol costs the equivalent of $4.65 a gallon.  Which is mostly tax, but is still cheaper than most of Europe.

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Originally posted by Gixer
My first car was a beaten up old Ford Falcon XA Coupe, and the car I wish I'd never sold.  :-(





...-Gixer

Geez, that car was so old, it was even hosted on tripod!

[MrLars]

Originally posted by lazs2
wow... crying toast guy owned a vw bug in what.... the sixties?  that's a shocker eh?

lazs

Yeah Laz, I bought a '61 bug in '63, also bought a new Tempest that year, I was 19 and had owned my own business for two years, paid cash for both cars....we liberals are a currious lot, huh?

[Boroda]

Originally posted by Glas
Just wondering, what is the average salary in the US?  Here in the UK, afaik, it is about £23k (about $41.5k).

Is it relative?

Here average salary is less then $3,000 US (less then three thousand American dollars) yearly. And petrol (it's a word that civilized people use instead of "gas" ) costs 15 roubles ($0,5) per litre, it's approximately $2 per gallon. Natural gas for cars is about 5 rubles per litre, 3 times cheaper.

Americans reached Russian petrol prices. Now the West finally left us behind

[AKIron]

Around $1.78 per gallon here.

[lazs2]

bought my first house (in the bay area in California) when I was 19... big deal.   things were different then.  had no interest in buying a VW tho.... go figure.  Had to wait 4 more years to get my own bussines.  

lazs

[Elfie]

I can remember the gas wars. My dad ran a Standard Oil service station back then. Can recall gas prices as low as .18 a gallon.