.09 a gallon jump over nite

[trbankii]

Prices around here from $4.05 all the way up to $4.49. Usually the spread is about 10¢ or so. Crazy thing is that you can have 20¢ at stations practically within sight of each other.

[Robyn]

Missy sits dreaming about the bygone days of gas wars
During my early days of driving, gas shopping was always a fav thing to do.

The big box stations would be around .25 9/10 (yup thats 25.9 cents) per gallon for regular and diesel was about .15 cents

At one end of town was a little gippo outfit that always undercut everyone else. ( CALL "The Rocket Station" ) these dudes would sell regular for .19 9/10 per gallon

Always a line there to fuel up.
Now this was a gas only joint, no window wash or other goodies and no service either, they had only a tiny shack for an office.

Then out of the blue, the big boys would start a war and drop the price to 18 9/10 per gallon and the fiasco was on.

The Rocket would drop to 17 9/10 and still the crowds would line up.

I think that the days of gas wars were pretty well over by about 71

Then came the "oil crisis" and shortages , now that was BS
A buddy of mine from college, his folks owned a Station, and their tanks were always full, even on days that the sign said "Out of gas"

I could show up at around 10 at night and pull in the service bay with my pickup and the flunky would check the oil while the "Old man" as they called him filled all my tanks in the pickup.
That truck had capacity for over 100 gallons.

They had a pump right inside the service bay door so it was not seen from the street.

The fuel tankers came in around 3 AM to top off the underground tanks.

That entire thing was nothing more than a dog and pony show.

Ah yess, the old days.

There was never a shortage, not even a tiny one.

The current practice of having refinery fires and pipeline problems is just another twist on the same dog and pony show.

Called " Rip Off " it is.

A sign of the times.

Bend over

Missy

[Liftgate]

Ya remember when gas had a pink tint to it, especially premium? I guess that was from the lead in it. Tetraethyl lead. I would buy $1 worth of gas for a Ford Fairlane with a 352 and drive it all week to go to high school. Gone are those days.