[dalereed]

“When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 29cents a gallon.”

Somebody must have just made some of these up,In 1955 I was paying 13.9 cents/gal.

Just before the crunch hit in 1974 we were paying 26.9 cents/gal.

[o_zarkman44]

I remember buying gas for .25 a gallon regularly when I started driving in 70 or 71. Least I paid was .19.
I thought the same thing when I read it.
But I just posted it for a little lighter discussion instead of the political debate etc.

We should always look ahead to the future, but never forget where we came from.

[roadcat]

“When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 29cents a gallon.”
Somebody must have just made some of these up,In 1955 I was paying 13.9 cents/gal.
Just before the crunch hit in 1974 we were paying 26.9 cents/gal.

Yup, that's right. I was working as a gas station attendant in 1974. Who would of thought that someday customers would be pumping their own gas? (Besides pumping gas, I had to wipe car windows, fill the air in tires, and check the oil and water on every car or risk getting fired.)