Pluggers by Rick McKee for March 29, 2011

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    EarlWash  over 13 years ago

    In ‘45 got it for 15.9.

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    runar  over 13 years ago

    During the Nixon administration, my father was glad that gas wasn’t under the price freeze because it was a whopping 29.9¢ per gallon.

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    cuddyent  over 13 years ago

    I owned an Arco station in 1969. During the year the price for regular got as low as 22 cents per gallon.

    One day our Arco rep visited us to tell us about a plan to allow customers to pump their own gas for a 2 cent discount. We laughed him out of the station…..imagine, women pumping their own gas. It was unthinkable….LOL

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    Plods with ...™  over 13 years ago

    Remember .10 per during a gas war.

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    Yukoneric  over 13 years ago

    I won $5 worth of gas and my car wouldn’t hold it all……………….

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    McGehee  over 13 years ago

    One of the gas station chains had TV ads featuring Jack Benny always buying $1 worth of gas at their gas stations.

    These days that would almost get him to the next gas station.

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    rw1h  over 13 years ago

    I worked part time in the 50’s at a “service station” (these don’t exist anymore). For 3 years we sold gas for 29.9c a gallon. Then I bought my first car and that same week the price of gas jumped to 30.3c a gallon. I almost had apoplexy. I didn’t know how I was gonna afford to pay those kind of prices for gas…….

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    DavidGBA  over 13 years ago

    5.7% inflation for 50 years is 16 x.

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    bossyheifer  over 13 years ago

    When I started driving in 1993, gas was $1.25. Could we at least get back to that?

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    Dry and Dusty Premium Member over 13 years ago

    Cheaper? You call $3.59 a gallon cheaper? 20 miles away from here, it’s 11 cents cheaper. Go figure!

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    booktrout  over 13 years ago

    I remember $.18/gal…..and you got service and gifts. RC- I WISH gas was $2.50—in CA it’s 4 bucks.

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    conean  over 13 years ago

    …and a top-of-the-line Caddy was 5k and you could buy a house for 10k. Of course, if you made 10k per year, you were considered upper middle class…

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    Madhatter1903  over 13 years ago

    True, sad but true

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    Gretchen's Mom  over 13 years ago

    It’s completely disgusting!

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