Sean wrote --

My maternal grandfather would tell a story about his father getting mad
at him for paying eight cents a gallon for gas back in the late 30s.

I was driving moving back to WV from CO in 1973.
I had been paying .25 for gas in CO and somewhere around Kansas, I think,
I saw a station with gas for like .43 cents a gallon. I said "I will never
pay that much for gas" and kept on going till I saw one around .33 a gallon.
A few months later the first oil crisis hit and people were paying well
over 43 cents for gas, if they could find any.
I had a '65 Falcon at the time which got about 20 mpg or there about so
I only had to get gas a few times during that period.

When I started driving in 1989, I was mad when I had to pay 75 cents a
gallon for gas. I was driving a 1978 Ford LTD with a 400 CID V8 in it
and it was always thirsty.

My last car (1980-87) had been my mothers, a '70 Chrysler Newport and had
to fight the wheel every time I passed a gas station, it kept wanting to
pull in on its own. :)
Joe


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