gas prices! post your current regular gas price.

For non-MRE, non-ration topics
User avatar
housil
Moderator
Posts: 5636
Joined: Tue Oct 24, 2006 7:04 am
Location: Germany, Bavaria
Contact:

Re:

Post by housil » Sat Nov 15, 2008 8:48 pm

dirtbag wrote:In the early 70's, there were actually 'Gas Wars', with stations competing for the lowest prices...
I remember $0.25 per US gallon... :cry:
I remember the oposite in Nov. 1973. We had a "car free" sunday that time, nobody excapt EMTs, Police etc... were allowed to drive.
Families had a walk on the empty interstates... 8)

Image

Image


The OPEC reduce the production on purpose to increase the price up to 70% :shock: in the very next year (1974) up to another 200% :shock: :shock: as their protest against the Yom-Kippur-War

User avatar
dirtbag
Posts: 1367
Joined: Wed Oct 12, 2005 7:56 pm
Location: central coast,california

Re: gas prices! post your current regular gas price.

Post by dirtbag » Sun Nov 16, 2008 1:00 am

The gas wars were in California, in 1971, good times !
During the yom Kippur war, (1973) I was in the Mediteranean, on a Patrol Gunboat, shadowing soviet warships and freighters taking Russian equipment to Syria and egypt. Dozens of Russians, loaded with tanks and trucks, and only one freighter taking stuff to Israel.
It was running at night, no lights, name painted over, and had several F-4 phantoms on deck, still painted with U.S. markings...
My ship was homeported in Naples (Napoli) Italy, But I was seldom home...
Gas was rationed, we had coupons and paid $0.50 per gallon. The US government paid the rest.
Locals were paying about $ 2.85 per, as I recall.
Mind you, I was only making about $ 400 a month then...
Attachments
100-4.jpg
My ship
Avid practitioner of the martial art: KLIK-PAO

User avatar
housil
Moderator
Posts: 5636
Joined: Tue Oct 24, 2006 7:04 am
Location: Germany, Bavaria
Contact:

Re: gas prices! post your current regular gas price.

Post by housil » Sun Nov 16, 2008 7:00 am

dirtbag wrote: Gas was rationed, we had coupons and paid $0.50 per gallon. The US government paid the rest.
They had this gas coupons untill "today" over here.

Today gas is "down" to €1.17/liter = $5.76/gallon, as "cheap" as the end of 2005 :D

Nice vessel you had been on and I guess, Italiens Mediterranien Sea wasn´t the worst place you could get deployed during the "cold war" :D compared to...

Image

:wink:

User avatar
AKross
Posts: 20
Joined: Tue Oct 21, 2008 6:39 pm
Location: Pennsylvania, US

Re: gas prices! post your current regular gas price.

Post by AKross » Mon Nov 17, 2008 12:17 pm

Gas in Rural Pennsylvania is down to $2.15 a gallon (around $0.57/liter I think). Price has been dropping fast.
Some people are like Slinkies... generally useless, but you can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs.

bishopmarine
Posts: 423
Joined: Thu Apr 12, 2007 6:50 pm
Location: virginia

Re: gas prices! post your current regular gas price.

Post by bishopmarine » Mon Nov 17, 2008 3:28 pm

1.77 in Lebanon VA!!!!!!
"Do not attack the First Marine Division. Leave the yellowlegs alone. Strike the American Army."
Orders given to Communist troops in the Korean War;
shortly afterward, the Marines were ordered
to not wear their khaki leggings.

User avatar
kman
Site Admin
Posts: 4370
Joined: Thu Jan 13, 2005 8:07 pm
Location: Naples, FL
Contact:

Re: gas prices! post your current regular gas price.

Post by kman » Mon Nov 17, 2008 3:47 pm

I paid $1.87 in SC last week...but it was still up to $2.07 in Charlotte, NC.

User avatar
Treesuit
Posts: 1599
Joined: Tue Jul 19, 2005 6:17 pm
Location: Pacific Northwest

Re: gas prices! post your current regular gas price.

Post by Treesuit » Wed Nov 19, 2008 12:12 am

This week is Tacoma, WA it is about $1.96 a gallon and holding there. :D

User avatar
dirtbag
Posts: 1367
Joined: Wed Oct 12, 2005 7:56 pm
Location: central coast,california

Re: gas prices! post your current regular gas price.

Post by dirtbag » Wed Nov 19, 2008 3:14 am

In California, regular is $ 2.17, Diesel is $2.75.
Avid practitioner of the martial art: KLIK-PAO

User avatar
fdsman
Posts: 691
Joined: Sat Dec 03, 2005 7:30 pm
Location: United States

Re: gas prices! post your current regular gas price.

Post by fdsman » Fri Nov 21, 2008 2:10 am

1.86 just about everywhere.
-73

User avatar
AKross
Posts: 20
Joined: Tue Oct 21, 2008 6:39 pm
Location: Pennsylvania, US

Re: gas prices! post your current regular gas price.

Post by AKross » Sat Nov 22, 2008 11:13 pm

$1.99 in PA, USA. Filled up my jeep today for less than $20, I am alright with that.
Some people are like Slinkies... generally useless, but you can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs.

Post Reply