Incredible sight on my way home

[roswellborn]

It never fails. Sunday morning, my husband filled up the gas tank for me. That was so sweet! It's cool that it was only 1.35 a gallon, too.

Then I was driving home from errands today and saw this:


The Universe has a really twisted sense of humor.

 

[fossis]

That looks good, (sorry you paid more), that's the way I usually do.

Fossis..........

 

[roswellborn]

That looks good, (sorry you paid more), that's the way I usually do.

Fossis..........

Ah, that's just the way things go.

I tell ya, I nearly went off the road when I saw it. I actually turned around and parked in the Midas lot to take that picture. I don't even remember how long ago it was since I last saw that price! I just couldn't believe it. Crazy.

HH
Nan

 

[Jagdpanther]

It's been interesting how the price for gas will differ around the city. When gas was above $4.00 gal. just about every station in town (Salt Lake City) was within 3 cents of each other. Now I can drive 20 blocks and see as much as 20 cents difference. Makes one doubt the stories they tell you how and who sets the price on a gallon of gas. I paid $1.32 a few days ago.

 

[hollowpointred]

enjoy it while it lasts. i heard on the news last night that it will be back to at least $3 a gallon by july.

 

[RON (PA)]

Wow, I have never seen gas that low. The lowest that I can remember is $1.25/gallon. Sorry you paid more per gallon. That is my luck too.

 

[Ray S S]

That is a good price. Always seems like it drops after you fill up, but if you wait till you have to, then it will go up, LOL. The price here Is $1.56 and $1.58. Since your's is down, maybe our's will go down, too. But I won't hold my
breath on that. LOL

Ray

 

[crazyjarhead]

Hope it stays there too. But you know OPEC and now, the "Isreali War" panic is trying to jack it up again. They miss selling oil for 150 bucks a barrel.......... poor, greedy &%$#@(*&

 

[Mental Granny]

The gas here is $1.49 a gallon everybody here complains about it since we have an oil field 4 blocks from downtown! We are the highest around and sometimes highest in the state!

 

[VanGone]

WOW that is a good price,1.59 in Iowa. Roswellborn,Does that mean Roswell NewMexico. If so I was stationed at White Sand Proving Grounds when in the Army in 1954. Near Las Cruses New Mexico I remember Roswell being near there.
Van

 

[seger98]

Gas here in sorthern Alabama is around $1.56, but there is one station holding out for a $1.85


Crazy!

 

[markmopar]

got down to $1.31 here today.

 

[boogeyman]

What kills me is looking at the giant storage tanks here. One day it's $3.00 a gallon then a couple days later it's $1.49 Wish I could buy a few thousand units at 10 cents per & sell them for $10 per, then sell the last 500 at $100.

Anyone here old enough to remember 55 cents a gallon & 35 cent cigarettes?

 

[roswellborn]

enjoy it while it lasts. i heard on the news last night that it will be back to at least $3 a gallon by july.

I remember back in the 70's some people installed their own tanks in the back yard - doesn't sound so silly now.

Wow, I have never seen gas that low. The lowest that I can remember is $1.25/gallon. Sorry you paid more per gallon. That is my luck too.

When we moved from Denver to St Louis, gas was around 52-58¢ a gallon. And we griped about it then, too Boy, if we'd only known then...!

Ray, I'm crossin' my fingers for you. And hoping I need to fill up again before that price goes back up. Sheesh

Granny - it's like the cobbler's kids never had shoes, y'know? All the cobbler's efforts went to bringin' in other folkses money.

VanGone - Friends in Des Moines were keeping me up to date on their prices, & usually, Iowa has been 3-20¢ cheaper than here - until lately. And yes, it's that Roswell... lol I was a lot younger then ROFL (But then, weren't we all?) 1954 is the year we moved from Roswell to Midland Texas, then later, on to Odessa.

Anyone here old enough to remember 55 cents a gallon & 35 cent cigarettes?

Shoot, I even remember 35¢ a gallon. And someone in the Army or Air Force could get smokes at 27¢ a pack.

Omigawd - I sound like my PARENTS!

But I'm with the rest of you; it makes no sense, it's crazy, nuts and everything else that gas prices vary so much even in the same town. I'm ready to ride a bicycle again. Honestly!

Nan

 

[Sidevalve45]

$1.69 here in Wisconsin. Never thought I'd see it below $2.00 again.

Sidevalve

 

[Ray S S]

Nan, you say you moved to Midland in 1954, that was the same yeat that my family moved from the upper peninsula of Mich.
down here to the Port Huron area. Gas wars from Detroit were working their way to this area. Bought my first car in 56
and gas was 28 and 30 cents a gal. It dropped to it's lowest at 18cents about a year later for a short time. then for a long time it fluxuated around 30 cents. Don't remember when I started noticing Diesel fuel but it was then and up until recently was cheaper than gas.
My sister lived in Midland and in Odssa during the 70's.

Happy New Year,

Ray

 

[TN-Joe]

What kills me is looking at the giant storage tanks here. One day it's $3.00 a gallon then a couple days later it's $1.49 Wish I could buy a few thousand units at 10 cents per & sell them for $10 per, then sell the last 500 at $100.

Anyone here old enough to remember 55 cents a gallon & 35 cent cigarettes?

I remember paying 18 cents a gal. for reg and 15 cents for a pack of smokes.
Back in the late 50's early 60's.
Joe

 

[frostytiger]

I remember in '70 & '71 working in a service station and the gas wars had us down to 17 cents per gallon. I could fill up the old jalopey for 2 bucks and be on my way, LOL, those were the days.

Frosty

 

[Excavator]

Our gasoline price jumped 20-24 cents over the weekend. $1.85 is the lowest in my area.

I used to trade a carton of empty pop bottles for a pack of cigarettes, or get enough gas to run my dirt bike for a week. Gas was 38 cents per gallon (on the high side, cheaper in town), cigs 35 cents.

 

[NGE]

1.85 gallon here and rising fast. 2 days ago it was only 1.45 gallon.....NGE