Re: What year has highest gas price and..
[Re: Sprung & Rusty]
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07/11/21 09:41 AM
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I remember paying at least 4.25 a gallonin 2008. Maybe a little more.
No Jab.
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Re: What year has highest gas price and..
[Re: AKAjust]
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07/11/21 08:38 PM
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Interesting bigbrownie. Be interesting if figured back to the 60s. Thats when gasoline was under $1.00 just
Yes I’d like to see that on a chart. I recall gas at 29.9 cents in the 60s. But wages were a fraction of what they are now. The first year I worked in the mine, gas was 55 cents a gallon (1976 ). But my hourly rate was $5.55. So in one hour, ( pretax ) I could buy 10 gallons of gas. Today, my mining friends ( I’m retired from it now ) earn about $30 an hour. So, they can buy about 9 1/4 gallons with an hour’s wages. About the same, more or less.
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Re: What year has highest gas price and..
[Re: SNIPERBBB]
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07/12/21 07:15 AM
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I think the inflation calculator says at 1960 a dollar then is 9 today Started driving legally and buying gas in 1974 and remember it was $.30-.33/gal. And locally gas is now $3.15/3.19. pretty close!!! In the meantime we managed to get to the top of state gas tax list!!!
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Re: What year has highest gas price and..
[Re: rex123]
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07/12/21 07:53 AM
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GEORGE W BUSH, 2008, a little over 4 dollars a gallon. National Average. Yea Katrina hit shut down 90 % of the refineries , But I think it was more like 2005-06 In the late 70's under carter I remember when it went over 1$ gal. The pumps were set at half sale because none of them were designed for gas that high !!!! Think it was 78-79 . Plus it was 5 dollar max sale
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Re: What year has highest gas price and..
[Re: Bigbrownie]
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07/12/21 08:05 AM
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Interesting bigbrownie. Be interesting if figured back to the 60s. Thats when gasoline was under $1.00 just
Yes I’d like to see that on a chart. I recall gas at 29.9 cents in the 60s. But wages were a fraction of what they are now. The first year I worked in the mine, gas was 55 cents a gallon (1976 ). But my hourly rate was $5.55. So in one hour, ( pretax ) I could buy 10 gallons of gas. Today, my mining friends ( I’m retired from it now ) earn about $30 an hour. So, they can buy about 9 1/4 gallons with an hour’s wages. About the same, more or less. LOL but not a real good comparison . THROW in the price of the car your putting the gas in. PLUS the house the car is parked in front off. OR the groceries you drove home from the store . Then calculate the higher wages. DETROIT, June 6 (AP)—The American consumer paid an average $5,450 for a new car in 1976, $700 more than in 1975, according to an annual survey by the National Automobile Dealers Association. It was the biggest relative increase from one year to the next in at least a decade. IRVINE, Calif., May 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The estimated average transaction price for a light vehicle in the United States was $40,768 in April 2021, according to the analysts at Kelley Blue Book. New-vehicle prices increased $864 (up 2.2%) from April 2020, while increasing $92 (up 0.23%) from March 2021. 5400 vs 40,000 eats up that higher wages really fast.
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Re: What year has highest gas price and..
[Re: Sprung & Rusty]
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07/12/21 08:25 AM
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My prediction is this year will be the highest gas price...
Let's go Brandon!
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Re: What year has highest gas price and..
[Re: Sprung & Rusty]
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07/12/21 02:36 PM
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Obama did his best to get it as high as he could. I remember him saying we should be paying the same $6 a gallon like they did in Europe. It was his way of trying to eliminate our dependence on fossil fuels like he's doing now.
Must be nice to eat ice cream as fast as you want and not have to worry about brain freeze.
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Re: What year has highest gas price and..
[Re: Sprung & Rusty]
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07/12/21 04:36 PM
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Obummer ……had me paying 4.50 per gal for home heating fuel one year..
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Re: What year has highest gas price and..
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07/12/21 06:47 PM
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My prediction is gas has just about peaked for this year, the price will start to decline in about a month.
I got myself a seniors' GPS. Not only does it tell me how to get to my destination, it tells me why I wanted to go there.
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