"Pining for those days when gas was cheap and the place you filled your tank was called a service station?" "We'll take you along a trip down memory lane. Here are some fun facts and helpful tips to get you out of the gas-guzzlin' blues." Then: "The first time gas prices averaged $1 a gallon nationally was 1980." Now: "Turkmenistan has the cheapest gas – $0.08 a gallon. Turkey, the world's highest price is $7.12 per gallon." ("If you're craving the old-fashioned treatment of your childhood, you can still get full-serve assistance in Oregon and New Jersey, which have laws that ban self-service gas.") Future: "On the horizon are cars powered by ethanol, biodiesel, natural gas, propane and hydrogen." http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/homep...cle_1623361.php
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(HBO6 @ Mar 18 2007, 07:09 PM) [snapback]408072[/snapback]</div> Don't confuse what you receive in NJ with what a "service station" used to provide. The old service station attendant (more often than not) wore a uniform, washed your windshield, and checked your oil while the gas was being pumped into the car at 29.9c per gallon. A turban was not part of the uniform. There was a pump next to the building where one could (for free) pump air into one's tires.
Ditto... self-serve stations now barely have any clean water for the squeegee. Edit: it was 39.9¢/litre back in 1997. Now it's $1.13/litre
Mind you, remember the gas jump last year. Here in Quebec, gas hit a high of $1.56/L. Everybody was crawling along on the highway. I didn't have my Prius yet. Almost can't wait to see that price again, if only to see the driving choices that others will make.
I don't know,i guess everthing is relative.I remember during the depression whe my dad got gas for .10 cents a gal,and if you got a dollars worth you recieved two gallons extra.But a dollar was a lot of money back then.Then i remember in around 1950 when gas was 17 cents but we could only afford 2or3 dollars at a time,and thats what i mean by relative.But when i'm filling the prius i do get some smirks and loving loving it.
