Old Enough To Remember?

Mr. Niceguy said:
I'm old enough to remember .64 cent 98oct leaded gas
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dwalby said:
many, if not most of us on this thread remember $0.19 regular
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I'm obviously not a member of "many, if not most of us" :)

I was curious, because it has been a long time since I first bought gas. Back then, a Texas resident could get a motorcycle license at age 15, but restricted to 100cc (or 125cc??). So that was in 1972 for me.
(and of course, when I turned 16, I wanted to bump up to the Kaw Z1 900cc).

I found a chart "average gas prices through history" for the US (link below).
In 1972, it was $0.36
1934 to 1941: $0.19

So yea, I haven't made it to the "84 to 91" year old range - and in the slim possibility I do, my memory will be horribly lacking :thumbsup:

Avg gas price history:

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Average Gas Prices in the U.S. Through History [Updated]

Gas Prices Through History [Updated] We might deny it. We might diminish its importance. We might not like it. But the fact is that gas prices are intrinsically linked with the overall economy in the U.S. and have been for decades. Oil gluts and crises consistently correlate with economic...
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Well, already in ground-school we were actually left at home, told to stay in bed, to warm some soup when hungry and take our meds...

These days:
those helicopter moms get "care days" granted over a 15(!!) year old "feeling sick", stay away from work for 3 days over that, and appear at the workplace with severe sunburn... :unsure:
 
bdalameda said:
Though some things have shrunk over time unfortunately I have not.
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Also a 'sign of the time'... ;)

On a more serious note:
despite the price of cacao has only risen by ~24% has Milka (taken over by Mondelez) managed an increase of their prices by 64%, by combining lower quantity with creeping price increase...
 
core-aggie said:
I'm obviously not a member of "many, if not most of us" :)

I found a chart "average gas prices through history" for the US (link below).
In 1972, it was $0.36
1934 to 1941: $0.19

So yea, I haven't made it to the "84 to 91" year old range - and in the slim possibility I do, my memory will be horribly lacking :thumbsup:
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From my memory, the $0.19 regular was common in the late '60s and very early '70s when there were periodic "price wars". It wouldn't show up in "average price" statistics because it would happen for a few weeks and then the price would go back up to $0.25 or so. It probably happened fairly often before that too, but I'm not old enough to have memories any further back in time. So, you didn't have to be alive from 1934-1941 to remember seeing that price.
 
Mr. Niceguy said:
That's amazing. Only time I ever saw more than 100oct at the pump was when Sunoco offered 105oct unleaded as race gas at a few stations for 2.89gal. Later skyrocketed to $7gal. I guess that's how those old muscle cars were able to run so well with leaded 106! I didn't start driving until 1984 when I was 16. 1st car was a 1973 AMC Postal Jeep passed down from my older brother.
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The muscle cars of the late '60s were running compression ratios in the 10-11 range IIRC, which was high at the time, but pretty unimpressive by today's standards. I'm no expert, but I think the difference was the flow efficiency of their cylinder heads was pathetic compared to today's technology so they needed that kind of octane to avoid pre-detonation. And, since I never owned one of those cars, it may be that they ran OK on lower octane, but ran better on the higher octane.
 
I remember looking into a computer career in 1984 as a way to get out of being a tin basher, McKay Computer College, monochrome screen, other class mates that I could relate to over a beer, wearing a polyester shirt, sitting in an office with attractive girls ... alright there were no attractive girls
What a drag, I know some of them got rich but I'm glad I chose to become the world's greatest refrigeration mechanic
No regrets
 
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