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Time to break out the big block engines again!! I would be pretty happy if gas was a 1.00 to 1.50 consistently. I know guys in the oil and gas industry are getting laid off left and right. It’s a play by the Saudis to keep us from being fuel independent. The domestic oil fracking freaked them out!! Too bad it won’t work. We are never going to see cars or trucks that are pigs on gas anymore.
I’m assuming that this is a “Special” price? Gas is still around $2.00 around me!!! If not then me ;(
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We’re still over $3 over here.
Just paid an awesome $1.89 in NH, I remember paying .89 when I was a kid!
I heard that was the result of a local gas price war with another station. Still agree with you, I thought never again in my life around 2007 when shit was hitting the fan.
I tow 95% of the time so this is great for me. Consumers are happy, oil companies are okay, employees are hurt, and OPEC is in disarray. I think we’re witnessing the beginning of the end of OPEC, it’s about to dissolve like a sugar cube with the constituents fighting about when to give in while some countries are actually increasing production despite the lack of demand. The middle east is in bad shape and Russia is pissing themselves as well.
Yeah, when I was kid and just started to drive at 16, gas was .65, a pack of cigarettes was .35 and a quart of beer was .50. Oh the good old days lol. You need a tanker truck to fill up.
Yea its because local gas stations are going crazy with a gas war. Too bad its the middle of winter. I would have taken a day trip and drove home on super cheap gas 🙂
In Michigan it wasn’t uncommon for teens to get gas money from bottle returns its 10 cents here. Return a few pop and beer cans and you got some gas money for the next few days.
I remember when phones didn’t have buttons…..
you mean hands free? Lol.comp56 wrote:
I remember when phones didn’t have buttons…..
All of comps friends had a bunch of 9’s in their numbers 🙂
Jasonc wrote:
Yea its because local gas stations are going crazy with a gas war. Too bad its the middle of winter. I would have taken a day trip and drove home on super cheap gas 🙂
You need to get a 500 gallon tank, throw it on the back of a pickup and spend the $295 to fill it.
1.63 in my neck of the woods
Jimbo
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comp56 wrote:
I remember when phones didn’t have buttons…..
You mean “when phones still had buttons?” 😉
Petros wrote:
You mean “when phones still had buttons?” 😉
no when they didn’t have buttons it was around the same time you had to go to your TV to change the channel…
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Petros wrote:
You mean “when phones still had buttons?” 😉
No he is describing phones with dials. I used to install those. Phones with buttons (Touch Tone) was a big deal. I also converted 4 party line customers to 2 party lines.
I found a pay phone at a local restaurant!!! It actually worked!!! I remember calling the operator “0” and asking for the “correct time”! Hahahahahahaha
you know! I still use one in my basement as a backup to a backup haha.[Photo from the original forum is not in the backup] and when we wanted to change the channel on the tv, we used a remote or the dogs choker chain lol. Worked on sound at the time. The old RCA color tv was great for watching those 6 channels. I played outside a lot.comp56 wrote:
no when they didn’t have buttons it was around the same time you had to go to your TV to change the channel…
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ya I remember when you would open a can of pop/soda and the channel changed….lol
. Man lol I don’t know how long it’s been since I’ve seen onechrisk wrote:
I found a pay phone at a local restaurant!!! It actually worked!!! I remember calling the operator “0” and asking for the “correct time”! Hahahahahahaha
Btw it felt like going through a time machine digging up these old commercials!!
http://www.fox5ny.com/news/76795410-story
LOL, I just saw this elsewhere. I wish we had some of those B&B things around here…
talk about old school, this is how I enjoy the blooper reels from TIA……those sounds tracks are hilarious…….
I remember gas going to a dollar I had a truck with a 454 and a 40 gallon tank. By the way gas is $1.50 and diesel is at $1.51 at the local buckees today in Texas.
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how about 7 gallon fuel cell that was near empty at the end of the quarter mile….my 56 chev big block Keith Black 502 CID got good mileage….lol cam2 racing fuel, 104 octane….the higher octane harder to ignite/burn so you could run with a little retarded timing and leaner
Geeez! I must be one of (if not the) oldest people here. Gas could be had for $0.25 and filling up the Plymouth Sport Satellite with the 383 cu.in. set me back $4 if it was dry. Phone numbers (locally) were 4 digits. No parent ever worried where you were. No seat belts. No computers (that you could fit in your house). No text, Anyway, you get the picture.
This low gas cost might make me drive that raptor of mine a little more now! At only 10.3 mpg avg. maybe I can get that avg. mpg up to say 11? But seriously, I have to,sell that thing[emoji20]
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Sell it and get the new 2017 Raptor!! It looks freaking awesome!!
http://www.caranddriver.com/features/2017-ford-f-150-raptor-in-depth-feature
Nice looking truck but a 10 speed gear box is nuts!
Jimbo
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Gas price being low might sound great.But other market ran products are nose diving also.In the long run its a good thing gas is cheap.Because in time its going to affect more then people working in the oil industry.When things crash as they are now.We are headed for trouble.Take a look at your 401K for example.We are headed for problems I think.