"Jim Hampton" wrote in message
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Hello Mopar,

Well I remember a gas war back around 1957 when gasoline was going for
$0.149 (fourteen point nine cents per gallon - where is the 'cents' key?
Used to exist on typewriters LOL). A friend (who, at age 85, is
considerably older than I) was telling me about when he could fill his
tank on a less than two bucks. I mentioned the gas war in Canandaqua, NY,
and he laughed - that was what he was talking about. My dad went to
another station and the attendant couldn't believe my father was going to
pay nineteen cents per gallon when, just down the street, it was going for
fourteen-nine. My dad didn't want to wait an hour in line. Folks even
were hand-carrying gas tanks to get the cheap gas. The line stretched for
over a block.

A co-worker's daughter just lost her job last week. She has her
baccalaureate degree and was offered the princely sum of $17.00 per hour.
She had the job two weeks when the company laid off 200 employees and she
was one. And many tens of thousands of dollarettes in debt


73 from Rochester, NY
Jim


"Steve" wrote in message
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Hello Jim

IIRC regular gasoline was around 50 cents a gallon when I got my learners
permit but I can remember my dad buying for half that, with an attendant
that washed the windshield and checked the oil. (goober says hey)

"Jim Hampton" wrote:
Assuredly no worse than 8 years of Bush. Reganomics didn't work then;
it
isn't working now. I'd have to be making $120,000 plus today to equal
what I made in 1980.


Hi Jim,
I too remember when I got my first car, gas was .27 a gallon. I don't care
who's in office, they are all to blame and nothing but a bunch of crooks.

Landshark