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To: SWAMPSNIPER

No date that I can see but it was printed in the USA.

Unfortunately that probably wasn’t from too many years before my birth in 64. When I started driving in the 80s I could still get a gallon of gas in the 50 and 60 cent range.


10 posted on 03/18/2009 3:27:01 PM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: cripplecreek

And I can remember was gas was .25/gallon
Cigarettes were less than 1.00/pack...


12 posted on 03/18/2009 3:38:29 PM PDT by siamesecats
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To: cripplecreek

“When I started driving in the 80s...”

Not to quibble, but gasoline went to $1 per gallon in 1979-1980. It got back down to $1 in 1984. I’m not sure when you’re thinking this price of 50 cents would’ve been.

I paid $50-60 when I started driving in 1977 tho. I could fill up the family New Yorker (the Queen Mary with a 440 engine!) on $13 when I started driving, but it took almost $30 in 1980.

The ‘73 Duster would not accept more than $8 in gas when I started driving it.......


13 posted on 03/18/2009 3:41:24 PM PDT by TWohlford
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