Tonight, for the first time, I paid more than two dollars a gallon for gasoline.
I don't expect much sympathy here, but thought I'd whine anyway.
Posted by Ben Brumfield at March 28, 2005 09:32 PMAs my contribution to the petroleum equivalent of when-I-was-a-lad-you-could-get-a-slap-up-meal-and-a-night-at-the-pictures-and-still-have-change-out-of-a-farthing: when I came to America in 1994 the local gas station was charging $0.85 a gallon.
Posted by: Alan Allport at March 29, 2005 04:10 AMWell, sonny, I remember a trip through the Texas Panhandle in 1973, and if the cobwebs aren't too thick I believe the price per gallon was $0.29.
Posted by: Bobby Farouk at March 29, 2005 05:01 AMI remember a cartoon during the bicentennial year showing a gas station advertising "Spirit Of 76 Cents A Gallon." The point of the joke then being that 76 cents a gallon would be impossibly high.
Posted by: Martha Bridegam at March 29, 2005 01:59 PMCor Benny boy, you're lucky you never got a 'they're starving back in China so finish what you've got' routine from the usual suspect.
Posted by: Airbrushed by the Commissars at March 30, 2005 04:03 PM