Pluggers by Rick McKee for July 13, 2022

Heart attack.

Yes i remember fondly.

At my employed grocery store’s gas station yesterday morning, it was $5.05; became $5.01 in the afternoon. At least prices are slowly but surely and happily going down.

Part of my retirement income comes from evil Exxon-Mobil stock. 369,000,000 gallons of gasoline is used EVERY day in the USA. The Federal government gets 18 cents per gallon and I think my state takes about 54 cents a gallon. If those coins could just fill the potholes!

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/gasoline/use-of-gasoline.php

I was a pump jockey in the 1960s. I recall “gas wars” where we were selling gasoline at 17 cents per gallon. We washed the windows, checked the oil and tire pressure. Jack and Joe’s Shell Service.

I pumped gas when it was $0.259 per gallon.

Mean tweets looking real good right about now.

During the 1973 Oil Embargo I remember the odd/even days with 10 gallon limit ;-)

I’m in PA and we have a gas tax of .58 per gallon of gas, and an unbelievable 74 cents per gallon of diesel. We also have some of the worst roads and bridges in the nation.

I said that the other day, Watching the liters climb faster than the dollars was nostalgic. Now seeing the dollars spinning faster than the display can update is disheartening.

What I would not do to go back to complaining when it went over 40 cents a L

Where’s all the dem/libs going, “Trump Trump Trump, Putin, Putin, Putin…”

And a sad part is that the dem/libs think a recession is a good thing, but since they don’t know what a woman is, they think a man can get pregnant, they think African Americans need to be segregated and can’t pass a standardized test or obtain a state-issued ID, and they think bumble bees are fish, don’t expect any intelligent solution to the economic situation anytime soon.With a government as corrupt as the Biden admin, and democrats jumping over each other every day trying to be the one to prove even further that dems are dumber than a dead dog, expect things to get bizarrely worse before any improvement is seen.

glad the sun is shining and the day is starting out nice. overrides this not-so-funny government-made reality show memory that never had to be.

Last filled the hybrid on April 17th and plugged in the electric last night. Solar panels and house battery. BC Hydro has to buy back our excess.

A Plugger remembers 25 cents per gallon gas, and gas wars that made it even cheaper.

Thank a Brandon voter.

Many years ago, there was a TV ad for Getty gasoline, showing the pump next to a competitor’s pump. It showed the dollar amount of each, and the Getty one was less. My mother asked “Why is their gas slower?” It became a family legend. Getty henceforth was known as “the slow gasoline!”

Y’all need a big clue or three. First, gas prices are not controlled by the president. Any president (well, maybe by those heavily invested in the oil biz). Second, it’s global, and we have it better than many other nations. And third, it really ramped up when Rootin’ Tootin’ Shootin’ Pootin’ shut off gas and oil after invading Ukraine. Here’s a bonus clue, the US is (and has been for years) a net exporter of oil.

Stop believing those “entertainment” network broadcasts and the podcasts some of y’all are into. Try an unbiased and highly factual news source like UPI (not just my opinion BTW – https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/united-press-international-upi/ ). Fact check and bias check your info, otherwise y’all are just being fed more garbage than the ads on a Saturday morning cartoon show.

I keep thinking if these were the old pumps they will burn out a bearing!

There would be an air pressure sensor hose across the drive, so that when you drove up the attendant would dash out to wash your windows, check your tires and oil, while the pump would be going “ding, ding, ding”. If you were lucky there would be a Coke machine for refreshment.

And those dollar numbers ran faster during Nixon’s gas crisis and Bush 2’s recession. It is not in the power of any President to set gas prices.

Had a 1970 Renault. Fill-up was $3.00. Lasted a long time because it kept breaking down. :)

That is called “The good old days”.

Loved when I paid $.18 / gal

ARRrRrrrrrrgggggggg. CLEAR thump

In the ‘70s, the second gas crisis I believe, some stations started selling gas by the liter instead of gallon. It made the price on the pump look smaller. We weren’t fooled though.

It was like that a year or so ago when nobody traveled because of Covid!