$1.99

[Jrob78]

$1.81 yesterday in Dallas.

[Bluebasser86]

I paid $35.75 to fill my Tundra from just below 1/4 tank 2 days ago     I thought the pump shut off early when I saw the total. 

[gardnerjigman]

Tell me about it. $23 in the accord. Makes it even sweeter when that $23 gets me 470 miles

[Siebert Outdoors]

I paid 1.78 yesterday. Wow!!

[clayton86]

Payed 2.98 yesterday...when is upstate NY going to join the -$2.00 fun?

It's sickening I get so depressed reading this thread lol. 2.87 yesterday to fill Buick cost me $56.

[roadwarrior]

WTI  $52.90

 

 

 

[RoLo]

I'm not in the camp who believes that OPEC is slitting their own wrists for future gains.
OPEC lacks the discipline to play fair within their own community, let alone foster a global agenda.

'Trend-following' is easier and safer than trying to predict a 'trend-reversal'
Of course, all trends ultimately reverse, but that shouldn't take anyone by surprise.

In the meantime: "The trend is your friend"

Lake Wales, FL <> $2.25 / gal

 

Roger

[roadwarrior]

$1.83 is the regional low, but most stations are $1.85.

[RoLo]

$1.83 is the regional low, but most stations are $1.85.

 

WOW, I'm being ripped off! 

Sounds like you're benefiting from low local taxes and a robust price war.

 

Roger

[*Hootie]

WOW, I'm being ripped off!

Sounds like you're benefiting from low local taxes and a robust price war.

Roger

$1.86 in Cincinnati.

Hootie

[RoLo]

$1.86 in Cincinnati.

Hootie

 

By the time our gas gets down to 1.86, you'll be paying a buck-fifty   

 

Hootie, when I first got my driver's license, I patronized a Checker gas station that charged 0.29 / gal.

Today, that wouldn't even cover the local taxes.

 

Roger

[J Francho]

Still around $3 here.

[*Hootie]

By the time our gas gets down to 1.86, you'll be paying a buck-fifty

Hootie, when I first got my driver's license, I patronized a Checker gas station that charged 0.29 / gal.

Today, that wouldn't even cover the local taxes.

Roger

Roger, the lowest price I ever paid for gas was 0.23 / gal. That was in the middle of a local gas war.

Remember when you would pull into a gas station and ask for two dollars worth of gas? They would do that, clean your windshield and check your oil. All for less than thirty cents a gallon.

Hootie

[RoLo]

Roger, the lowest price I ever paid for gas was 0.23 / gal. That was in the middle of a local gas war.

Remember when you would pull into a gas station and ask for two dollars worth of gas? They would do that, clean your windshield and check your oil. All for less than thirty cents a gallon.

Hootie

 

Yes Hootie, and I remember it like it was yesterday.

There was a Gulf station I once patronized (in the 60s) where my usual request was "Two of Tane" ($2 of Gulftane).

You never left your car, the attendant would fetch the blue spray bottle and a handful of brown paper-towels.

He'd clean your windshield and sometimes your backshield, then check your oil

(they knew where every hood-release was located). You say you need a road map of New Jersey? 

He'd run inside and fetch you a FREE road map, and no tip was ever expected.

Today, if someone rallied around your car like that, it would be on some airhead's cellphone,

but back in the day, it was business as usual 

 

Roger

[F14A-B]

All the stations, around here, like described above, would also carry, sell and install wiper blades, oil & had full service garages to boot...

Yep, Quart Cans of oil..

[Lund Explorer]

Yes Hootie, and I remember it like it was yesterday.

There was a Gulf station I once patronized (in the 60s) where my usual request was "Two of Tane" ($2 of Gulftane).

You never left your car, the attendant would fetch the blue spray bottle and a handful of brown paper-towels.

He'd clean your windshield and sometimes your backshield, then check your oil

(they knew where every hood-release was located). You say you need a road map of New Jersey? 

He'd run inside and fetch you a FREE road map, and no tip was ever expected.

Today, if someone rallied around your car like that, it would be on some airhead's cellphone,

but back in the day, it was business as usual 

 

Roger

 

Am I the only one that was ever a pump jockey when they were in school? 

 

We did a lot more than just check the oil once we got under the hood.  Belts, hoses, fluid leaks, and we ALWAYS checked the sticker to see when the last oil change had been done.  When we washed windows, we also checked out how the wipers looked.  And never forget to check the air pressure in those tires if they looked a little low.

 

Winter, summer, rain, snow or shine, the best $1.25 per/hour I was ever paid!

[RoLo]

Am I the only one that was ever a pump jockey when they were in school?

We did a lot more than just check the oil once we got under the hood.  Belts, hoses, fluid leaks, and we ALWAYS checked the sticker to see when the last oil change had been done.  When we washed windows, we also checked out how the wipers looked.  And never forget to check the air pressure in those tires if they looked a little low.

 

During the 50s & 60s, my uncle Bill Galik owned an Esso gas station in Hillside, NJ.

I well remember the mechanical checklist you mentioned, to which I'd like the add the outdoor grease pits.

Thanks to uncle Bill, I had a free place to service my own car, his tandem grease pits were a godsend.

 

 

Winter, summer, rain, snow or shine, the best $1.25 per/hour I was ever paid!

 

Back then the minimum wage was $1.00 / Hr,  so you must've been a crackerjack 'pump jockey'

 

Roger

[*Hootie]

Where did it all go guys. Was a fast ride wasn't it.

Hootie

[RoLo]

Where did it all go guys. Was a fast ride wasn't it.

Hootie

 

Sure was!

 

On a high note, we probably lived during the grandest era of all, and seen the greatest change ever.

Around 1950, we were there when radio was replaced by black-&-white TV (every home had a roof antenna & rabbit ears)

Ma-and-Pa stores were everywhere, when anything you needed was within walking distance.

The ice-man, knife-sharpener, junk-man and vegetable man all came by our houses on horse-drawn carriage.

I remember my father cranking his Model A, I remember skate keys, cap guns, Captain Video rings,

and the coal man who'd site-fit that noisy metal chute leading to the our coal-bin. We even witnessed the beginning

of the World-Wide Web, when it was little more than Telnet, Gopher and Archie (No, not Archie Bunker).

Sad but true, based on what I see on today's horizon, I think I'd rather be making an exit, than making an entry.

 

Roger

[slonezp]

$2.98 in Chicago today.

[Lund Explorer]

During the 50s & 60s, my uncle Bill Galik owned an Esso gas station in Hillside, NJ.

I well remember the mechanical checklist you mentioned, to which I'd like the add the outdoor grease pits.

Thanks to uncle Bill, I had a free place to service my own car, his tandem grease pits were a godsend.

 

Michigan in winter wasn't real conducive to an outdoor grease pit!    But, one of the two bays had an indoor one.

 

Back then the minimum wage was $1.00 / Hr,  so you must've been a crackerjack 'pump jockey'

 

Actually in 1970 the minimum wages was $1.40 unless you were a full time student, and then it was only $1.25.

 

Roger

[J Francho]

$2.89 this morning.

[*Hootie]

$1.85 in Cincinnati.

Hootie

[RoLo]

Actually in 1970 the minimum wages was $1.40 unless you were a full time student, and then it was only $1.25.

 

1970?

Sheesh, I thought you meant back-in-the-day 

By 1970 I was 28 years old, making over $5/hr (uncle Bill was gone)

In 1955 the minimum wage was 75 cents/hr, then in 1956 it was raised to $1/hr.

 

Roger

[K_Mac]

Filled my pickup for 1.76 in St. Louis Co. Sunday and my Durango yesterday for 1.95 here on the Illinois side of the river.