Elizabeth Kaeton, at Telling Secrets, is defending her dissertation today and could use a few prayers of support, if you can spare them. Nevertheless, I could not allow myself to be outdone by her in posting contributions from Doug. I chose different cartoons, but all of hers are in color.
As Doug says, "Gas humor - Sad, but too true!" As to the bottom cartoon, I'm old enough to remember gas at 29 cents a gallon.
I remember it being around $1.00 a gallon in North Carolina, and that was when i was just learning to drive back in the early 90s!
ReplyDeleteGas was .219 in Tucson when I was at UofA in 1958. I've never been able to understand the .009.
ReplyDeleteFine cartoons. Thanks, I'll leave "Gas Wars I Have Seen" to others.
ReplyDeleteI can remember when gas was 35 cents/gallon. Our Congressional representative, Robin Beard, came to speak to my 2nd grade class, and he told us we could tell our parents that gas was going up to 50 cents a gallon soon. I can remember thinking that 15 cents a gallon was a HUGE jump, even then...
ReplyDeleteI saw on the news this morning that this time a year ago, the average price of gas was $2.87/gallon. Today it is $3.57. It has nowhere to go but up...
The rapid increase in gas prices will have consequences. I wonder if the Bush maladministration realizes that, yet.
ReplyDeleteI actually remember 28 cents a gallon, but the price seemed to stay at 29 cents for a long time. Of course, I did not have a car until I was 22 years old, so I wasn't paying attention before that.
I remember gas around 35 cents a gallon during some very local price wars when I was in seminary. I also remember noticing how much more expensive it was when I visited Europe. How painful must it get before we act sensibly and switch from fossil fuels?
ReplyDeleteThe cheapest I remember gasoline was at 12 cents a gallon, during a gas war, of course. My small city (Bartlesville, Okla.) had the best gas wars, being the national headquarters for both Phillips 66 (now Conoco-Phillips) and City Service (now CITCO). Of course by the time I was driving, it wavered between 20 and 30 cents a gallon, but still with the occasional gas war.
ReplyDeleteHi Janet, welcome. Well, if there was a prize for remembering the lowest price, you would win. I remember the price wars, too, but I don't remember the prices during the wars.
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