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Do You Remember Cheap Gas?

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pdplot said:
Today gasohol; tomorrow ???

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I like how the lead was removed and the price went up. They did not remove it just didn't add it. The fuel before was white gas and that was unleaded. Then they had to listen to the tree huggers and put in alcohol and raise price again. Wish all tree huggers had to own a vintage or classic car for a few years.
 
Photo of the film crew staging a scene of the TV series "Route 66" - taken in Pennsylvania near Carlisle. '62 Corvette.
 
I thought Milner's Vette was red and white.
 
LarryK said:
I thought Milner's Vette was red and white.
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I remember seeing it (at least one of them) on a set in Corpus Christi back in the day - definitely gold ('62 "Vette).
 
LarryK said:
I like how the lead was removed and the price went up. They did not remove it just didn't add it. The fuel before was white gas and that was unleaded. Then they had to listen to the tree huggers and put in alcohol and raise price again. Wish all tree huggers had to own a vintage or classic car for a few years.
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The cost of producing unleaded gas increased because it was necessary to use more expensive substances to preserve anti-knock properties when the tetraethyl lead was removed. The lead wasn't simply removed. As for me, I like the idea that my kids aren't exposed to lead in auto exhausts, and that, thanks to unleaded gas, cars can use catalytic converters to remove other pollutants. If that makes me a "tree hugger," I'll wear the title proudly.

Isn't it interesting that the people who benefit most from environmental improvements are the ones who disparage them? Perhaps it's because they don't have the imagination to realize how horrifically bad things would be if those improvements weren't made.
 
That route 66 picture is really cool. I remember prices in the 30 cents a gallon range give or take when I was growing up, by the time I started driving in '77 we had had the benefit of OPEC and prices were around 60-70 cents a gallon, I had forgotten how prices really didn't rise that much from there through the 90s and even the early 2000s. I remember we had a family driving trip planned in 2004 or so and prices spiked to over $2.00 a gallon, and I wondered if we could afford the trip, it blew my budget right out of the water. I have seen some adjusted for inflation charts and it really hasn't been that bad when adjusted for inflation, although I wondered how it would look when adjusted related to average or median wages.

Maybe it is just part of getting older, I am sure dollar gas seems very expensive to my parents generation, but the recent $4.00 gas (my car takes premium) and $60 fill ups seem crazy to me, can't imagine driving a big truck or SUV.
 
"my car takes premium"

It's hard to find any that is higher than 91 octane anymore.
 
This has probably been posted in this now growing thread, but adjusted for inflation, gas (now below $3/gallon) is CHEAP. Might even be down to 30 cents equivalent range. :smile:
 
Interesting. So, we're getting there.

40 cents (more common back then) is equivalent to $3.11 today.
 
Then we've still got a way to go before hitting my all time low prices from back in post #9 as they calculate out to $1.07 to $1.24 in 2014 dollars. And there is even further to go before we reach my all time relative low price that I saw here in 1999. Gas had fallen to as low as 69.9¢ per gallon which works out to 99¢ in 2014 dollars.
 
$2.36 for premium 93 @ Phillips 66 in southern Il.
 
$2.31 for premium 93 this morning. Less in St. Louis where tax is cheaper, around $2.23. Saw $1.99 for regular last njght. Said OPEC would stop at $40 a barrel and quit production to let supplies dwindle.
 
You guys are lucky. Here in the Gold Coast - the Stamford, Darien, new Canaan, Greenwich half of Fairfield County - gas prices are I believe the highest in the country. Two towns over to the East, the price is at least 10-14 cents cheaper. It's called Zone Pricing.
 
Their zone pricing could use some work. Here you cross state line and it's cheaper because of tax.. But go farther and the price changes because of shipping. And then the emission stuff. We do not have emissions here but elsewhere in the county, because of St Louis, they have to be emission checked. That too is not fair as we are in middle of county and everyone around us has to be tested. I would like to know where the fuel tax goes as our roads are junk.
 
Our Premium 93 was $2.28 this morning. I can fill my LR4 (25 gal) for the price I used to fill my MINIs ( 12 gal).
 
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