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To: seasoned traditionalist

Next time you stop at the pump and pay trough-the-stratosphere prices
BS. Gas prices are high, but nothing compared to what they were in the 70s.

2 posted on 09/05/2006 7:09:34 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)

I saw $2.48 for Hugo's gas this morning on the drive in.

9 posted on 09/05/2006 7:24:51 AM PDT by TexasCajun

Hey everybody...stop your b*tchin'!

A gallon of Benjamin Moore paint...Matte Finish... color HC-61 is $46.45 with tax.

;^)

12 posted on 09/05/2006 7:28:26 AM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)

Where were you in the 70's? Gas was never $3.oo or even $2.oo per gallon. At least not in Texas.

25 posted on 09/05/2006 7:41:02 AM PDT by Msgt USMC

According to the inflation calculator, $2.85/gal would be $.76/gal in 1975. I forget, what was the price of gas then?

31 posted on 09/05/2006 7:54:22 AM PDT by William Terrell (Individuals can exist without government but government can't exist without individuals.)

Next time you stop at the pump and pay trough-the-stratosphere prices

BS. Gas prices are high, but nothing compared to what they were in the 70s.

Really? I don't know how old you are, but I can remember "vividly" the jump in prices (DOUBLING) in the early 70's (as I had just got out of an 8 year enlistment in AF) and had started working in the Insurance Business, which I ended up getting out of because gas prices were killing me.

I also remember paying as little as 18 cents a gallon when I started driving in 1959.

Okay, I know what you (and others) will suggest as to the value of a dollar today, in 1970's terms.

Thus, read on McDuff!!!

http://www.1970sflashback.com/1976/Economy.asp