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To: Nervous Tick

I can’t speak for your location, but where I lived, in 1970 gas was 30-32 cents a gallon. It rose to 50 cents in 1973-74 after the oil embargo.


14 posted on 05/25/2023 8:27:03 AM PDT by fini
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To: fini

And a full size Snicker bar was a nickel!


15 posted on 05/25/2023 8:29:40 AM PDT by 9422WMR
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To: fini

That’s the kind of numbers I recall. Lived in Denver then. In the mid sixties, every Saturday we’d pile into the station wagon and drive to the fuel wholesaler downtown and fill the 5 gallon mower cans... 23c a gallon... hit 40c to 50c early 70s around the time I started buying it for myself, out of my $1.25/hour wages.


16 posted on 05/25/2023 8:32:31 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Truth is not hate speech.)
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To: fini

Yep, 28-33 cent gas was pretty common before the oil embargo in 73. The exception was Amoco premium ‘white gas’, the unleaded high octane gas sold for around 40 cents/gal where I lived.

Nobody I knew used the Amoco on a regular basis, but a lot of folks would run a tankful through their car once or twice a year believing it would clean out lead and carbon deposits.


17 posted on 05/25/2023 8:38:52 AM PDT by Roadrunner383
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