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Breaking News:
CNN reports that gas stations will start showing PORN movies on screens of the pumps so you can see someone else get screwed at the same time you do.
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09-20-2008, 10:06 PM
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My wife and I just drove down from Chicago to Myrtle Beach, SC (celebrating our 30th anniversary) -- arrived a couple of hours ago - I'm borrowing a dinosaur laptop that my daughter bought from a friend for $25 - Toshiba with a 366Mhz P-II and XP Home that is painfully slow, but at least it can connect with a wireless card I got for her. I was surprised to see gas for $3.39 several places in Tennessee. Of course, it's a sad day when you're glad to see gas for $3.39!
In South Carolina, I noticed a series of stations along the interstate that didn't have any gas. There's some sort of a delivery issue in some areas.
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09-21-2008, 01:48 AM
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Not sure if it is still due to Ike but a number of places ran out of gas in the Carolinas last weekend. Nothing like some good old panic to cause a run on gas and let the stations gouge us with ridiculous prices.
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09-21-2008, 04:39 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: St.Augustine FL. Plymouth Rock is a newbie!
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I paid 3.79 the other day and thought "yahoo!".
 This is coming from a Texan who as a 16 year old got my first credit card - a Diamond Shamrock gas card - and gas was 49 cents a gallon. Anyone remember those good old days?
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09-21-2008, 05:45 PM
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 They'd probably charge us even more for the gas as we watched... with my luck.
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09-22-2008, 06:07 AM
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The lowest I can recall was in 1987, I believe - $0.649/gal for regular leaded. Back then I had a monster of a car - a 1968 Buick LeSabre that got, oh, maybe 4 or 5MPG going downhill. But I remember being able to go almost a week on $5 worth of gas. Ah, youth... |
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09-22-2008, 07:42 AM
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Chief of Naval Operations
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I can remember gas prices of $.249/gallon.
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09-22-2008, 08:39 AM
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Chief of Naval Operations
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Location: LEVITTOWN< PA> USA
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Heh..when I first got my '68 Vette in 1971, I cruised practically every night of the week with high test gas at 35 cents per gallon. Those were the days.
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09-22-2008, 09:48 AM
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Rear Admiral Upper Half
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: by a lake in michigan
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i remember as cheap as $.179 at union 76 and $.19.9 at standard stations and premium was a whole $.02 cents more gallon. when we had are 68 mustang with a 289 v8
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