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helenS · 36-40, F
I remember exactly one thing that was 8 inches long, and it was free. 😏
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Ontheroad · M
Try 23 cents a gallon and candy bars were, depending on size, a nickel, a dime or a quarter.
Ontheroad · M
@OlderSometimesWiser nah, people were the fuel for the family ride.
Elessar · 26-30, M
Well the economic system is designed around the idea that every company's revenue must grow every trimester. At some point, price gouging becomes necessary to sustain that. We're there.
WandererTony · 56-60, M
I grew up with a different currency. Not $.
But yes, fuel is 200 times costlier today.
It was INR 5 for a litre of petrol when I first started buying for my bike in 1980. It’s INR 103 now!!
But yes, fuel is 200 times costlier today.
It was INR 5 for a litre of petrol when I first started buying for my bike in 1980. It’s INR 103 now!!
Longpatrol · 31-35, M
@WandererTony Surprisingly I think if I convert your currency to mine(Singapore dollars) the pumps prices are about the same. Do you lot get any fuel subsidies? I know India has a fairly robust petro industry
Heck, I think some of it is refined here before going onwards.
Heck, I think some of it is refined here before going onwards.
WandererTony · 56-60, M
@Longpatrol nope. No subsidies now. It was subsidised earlier. India is a net importer of oil. One of its major imports
Longpatrol · 31-35, M
@WandererTony ahh. Import costs explains it.
darkknightt · M
When was gas 1 $?
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darkknightt · M
@LILY61 hmm I see
remember when babysitting was minimum wage?
When McDonalds food tasted good? the fries were phenomenal and the Mc Rib was also 8 inches...and tasted better.
when the ice cream man came to your street?
When McDonalds food tasted good? the fries were phenomenal and the Mc Rib was also 8 inches...and tasted better.
when the ice cream man came to your street?
MrAverage1965 · 61-69, M
@MrAverage1965 i first heard of Mr Whippy on that show...Episodes
So much shrinkage these days!
fun4us2b · M
I worked in a Shell Station during HS and gas was 57.9 cents per gallon, and I remember every one complaining how it used to be 35 cents and some people saying a dime a gallon!
ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M
Yes. And that was when I thought a yearly salary of $10,000 would be wonderful.
@ChipmunkErnie and a decent car was $3000 and a decent home was $20,000.
ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M
@LILY61 Or less.
Shadyglow · F
When I was in middle school they were twenty five cents.
RockerDad · M
I remember them being 25 cents.
No. I don't.
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InHeaven · F
Um no😳
SomeMichGuy · M
...you mean in 1973 before the OPEC action?
@SomeMichGuy oil meant nothing to me until '78
SomeMichGuy · M
@LILY61 In lower Michigan, gas bounced between $0.369 & $0.399 per gallon in 1973, then it blew past $1.
The town in which I'd grown up, where almost all the major employers were either suppliers for the American auto industry or shops which supported those suppliers, was completely devastated, with many people laud off, wages staying flat for those employed...
The stupidity of American car execs who'd gone to business schools but NEVER considered the basic assumptions of their industry were caught flat-footed and it destroyed a whole sector of the economy.
The town in which I'd grown up, where almost all the major employers were either suppliers for the American auto industry or shops which supported those suppliers, was completely devastated, with many people laud off, wages staying flat for those employed...
The stupidity of American car execs who'd gone to business schools but NEVER considered the basic assumptions of their industry were caught flat-footed and it destroyed a whole sector of the economy.
Musicman · 61-69, M
I remember riding my motorcycle out to the local gas station as a kid and filling up for $0.26 cents a gallon and thinking that was expensive. It would cost me $0.35 cents if my tank was on empty.