| [GMCnet] Gas Prices [message #317766] |
Thu, 18 May 2017 14:16  |
Ken Henderson
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Rockauto's newsletter just arrived. Here's a trivia question
from it:
Today's $2.50 gallon (3.8 liter) of gasoline equates to about what price
per gallon in 1967 US dollars (adjusted for inflation)?
A. $0.34 per gallon in 1967 US dollars
B. $0.69 per gallon in 1967 US dollars
C. $1.07 per gallon in 1967 US dollars
You'll have to look up the answer for yourself. Try to remember it when
you next fill the empty GMC tanks. :-)
Ken H.
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| Re: [GMCnet] Gas Prices [message #317776 is a reply to message #317767] |
Thu, 18 May 2017 17:30  |
tphipps
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Rick, You forgot wages, etc. However, I remember a bitter gas war in South Texas, where two stations took the price down to $0.099.
Cars everywhere.
Tom, MS II
2012 Phoenix Cruiser model 2552
KA4CSG
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| Re: [GMCnet] Gas Prices [message #317779 is a reply to message #317776] |
Thu, 18 May 2017 20:43 |
Ken Henderson
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When I was stationed in Waco, TX in 1959, there was a Texaco station, with
2 pumps & NOTHING else, where gas was $0.179 for the entire 6 months I was
there. Other stations were 2-3 cents higher!
Ken H.
On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 6:31 PM, Thomas Phipps wrote:
> Rick, You forgot wages, etc. However, I remember a bitter gas war in South
> Texas, where two stations took the price down to $0.099.
> Cars everywhere.
> Tom, MS II
>
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| Re: [GMCnet] Gas Prices [message #317788 is a reply to message #317766] |
Fri, 19 May 2017 08:23 |
jhbridges
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The station I worked at on weekends and summer as a fifteen year old (Herschel Dawson's Pure Oil) had hoses across the entries which rang a large bell when a car crossed them. We met the car at the pump island and asked 'Fill 'er up?' and while the gas was pumping checked the oil and washed the windshield. When we had a sale on, we'd spin the top off the air cleaner and check the element, in hopes of selling a new one. Had a BIG wire bin with dirty filters in t. Oil was in cans and we used a cutter spout to pour it in the engine. We washed cars, installed brakes, fixed flats. For 65 cents an hour. Regular gas was normally around 26.9, premium was 3 cants more. I believe commission on the gas - which Pure owned - was on the order of 2 3/4 cents a gallon. Pure set the price per gallon, and always responded to price was with Amoco whose station was across the street. In that US 31 was the main drag from Montgomery to Birmingspam, we did a pretty good business. Regular got as low as 19.9 a time or two during wars.
--johnny
Foolish Carriage, 76 26' Eleganza(?) with beaucoup mods and add - ons.
Braselton, Ga.
I forgive them all, save those who hurt the dogs. They must answer to me in hell
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| Re: [GMCnet] Gas Prices [message #317818 is a reply to message #317766] |
Sun, 21 May 2017 00:02 |
Ken Burton
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On the trip down here I paid 2.03 for 87 gas and 2.70 for untaxed propane. Any now people want me to change my Onan to run on propane. Right!
Ken Burton - N9KB
76 Palm Beach
Hebron, Indiana
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| Re: [GMCnet] Gas Prices [message #317824 is a reply to message #317766] |
Sun, 21 May 2017 12:21 |
Scott Nutter
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I remember exactly as Johnny B explained it.
Except I was about 5 years old sitting in the reverse rear seat of a station wagon, that's where you sat when you were in trouble. But I was still watching the process.
We would always get gas at Hollandia dairy, a dairy with a so called mini mart/gas station on premise.
Fresh eggs, chocolate and white milk, and ethal gas for 19-23 cents per gallon.
Escondido, Ca. Mid sixties!!
Scott Nutter
1978 Royale Center Kitchen, Patterson 455, switch pitch tranny, 3.21 final drive, Quad bags, Dave Lenzi super duty mid axle disc brakes, tankless water heater, everything Lenzi. Alex Ferrera installed MSD Atomic EFI
Houston, Texas
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