Re: [FWDLK] Shallow Hal---what did gas cost in 2001?

["Bill K." <pontiac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In 1994 I remember buying gas just over the PA line for 90 cents a gallon. 
That was super-cheap, $1.10 was expensive at the time.  For a while there in 
the late 90s it was no big deal for me to drive all over in a 455-powered 
big ol'boat ('72 Pontiac Grandville), there were times I'd take that car out 
for a ride just for the sake of taking a ride in it.


As recently as 2004 I remember paying $1.48 at an indian reservation 
somewhere between Niagara Falls and Lockport and thinking it was still kinda 
high but better than $1.75 or so elsewhere.  I was coming back with a load 
of "come get it or we're scrapping it" free parts and a couple things I 
bought from them that paid for the trip.  Which is good, because to this day 
I've never found anyone who needed genuine knockoff wire wheels for some 
50's sports car.

At the time I'd just sold an '89 Dodge Ramcharger, replacing it with the 
truck I have now (a Suburban), because it only got about 13 MPG tops and the 
Sub was rated for as high as 19 (16 in actual driving lately).

The last time I bought gas it was $4.06 for the cheap stuff.  I've seen it 
as high as $4.29 driving around upstate New York.  It's cheaper to carry the 
big screen TV outside into the driveway and put on a DVD of someone else 
driving down the road to watch from the front seat of the car.

Of course, I bought a diesel Suburban to replace the gasser so I could pull 
20-25 MPG...  but after doing the math in 160 miles I save 2 bucks with the 
diesel at 20 MPG and $5 a gallon diesel fuel.  Because it's a 3/4 ton they 
tell me not to expect much more than that...  I should have bought a Dodge 
with a Cummins instead.  But you don't usually find one of those that runs 
good for $200 either.

Let's hope China's economy breaks like Japan did 20 or so years back, that 
will cut the demand back hopefully to where daily oil production can exceed 
the demand again, and bring prices down.  Will we ever see $1.50 again?  No, 
but at this point I could live with $2.50.



Bill K.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "L-FORWARDLOOK automatic digest system"
> Date:    Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:12:22 -0700
> From:    eastern sierra Adj Services <esierraadj@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Shallow Hal---what did gas cost in 2001?
>
> watchin the movie; drove into a gas station, price of Un-Lead :
> $1.559........[sigh]...
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