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Gas actually dropped 10c here in the past couple days. Down to $5.69!
Gas bills used to be an afterthought in the good old days I think is the point. It takes $100 to fill my car, used to be $50 or under. Double the price many many people can’t weather. We literally go nowhere except for random drives and piddly errands and our gas bill is over $400 a month.
And even then keep it well under 4k rpm and do NOT snap into the throttle ever. LSPI will bite you hard if you do, one plus side to keeping my old jeep around is that brick of an engine can run on 85 octane if needed with no driving habit changes needed.
Originally Posted by ST430
Lspi is primarily evident in new gdfi engines, not old NAs like the lc500....
lspi? gfi? gtfo?
Originally Posted by FatherTo1
Same here. We only need to fill my wife’s ES every 2-3 months ...
most people only filling a car every 2-3 months wouldn't care about gas prices.
i fill every couple of weeks i guess, and still don't care, because there's nothing i can do about it. if need be, i'll raise my business rates.
Everybody has to remember, you can't compare prices from 2020 to today. April of 2020 was in the depths of COVID lockdowns where global demands for gas went to the floor. SO, yeah gas was $1.40 a gallon. Best comparison would be to summer of 2019...in which case prices are still terrible, but high test around here was about $3.80 a gallon.
Huh????? Where was gas $1.40 a gallon? I must of been asleep. Oh yeah, I live in California. Never mind
Huh????? Where was gas $1.40 a gallon? I must of been asleep. Oh yeah, I live in California. Never mind
My wife and I remember when gas used to be 99 cents a gallon in Sacramento, CA…back in high school during mid-1990s, lol. It must’ve been 50 cents back then for the rest of the country.
My wife and I remember when gas used to be 99 cents a gallon in Sacramento, CA…back in high school during mid-1990s, lol. It must’ve been 50 cents back then for the rest of the country.
It was about 89 cents for regular in 1998 in Tennessee when I started driving.
When I started driving in the 60's gas was around 32.9 (not a typo) everywhere and rarely fluctuated very much. Every now and then for some reason there would be a "price war" in certain areas and it would go down to 20.9-10.9 for a short period of time. Not sure what caused them but was fun while it lasted.
When I started driving in the 60's gas was around 32.9 (not a typo) everywhere and rarely fluctuated very much. Every now and then for some reason there would be a "price war" in certain areas and it would go down to 20.9-10.9 for a short period of time. Not sure what caused them but was fun while it lasted.
I remember when I was a kid my dad fill up his station wagon and handed the attendant $5. He even got change back. This was when we used to have full service stations. The guy even checked my dads oil....
Gas bills used to be an afterthought in the good old days I think is the point. ...
When were the good 'ol days? Back in the 70's I remember paying 50 something cents a gallon, but I only made $2/hr and my car got 8 mpg's. We both know what his meritless "point" was.
When were the good 'ol days? Back in the 70's I remember paying 50 something cents a gallon, but I only made $2/hr and my car got 8 mpg's. We both know what his meritless "point" was.
That's actually pretty true, what we think was the good ol days is very relative. In the 70's when I was a kid my dad worked night shifts as a restaurant manager and brought home something like $170 a month plus tips, his mortgage was $70, and although you could fill up your gas tank with $5, you were lucky to get 10 mpg, and growing up in 70's Los Angeles the air quality was so bad that you choked on smog
When were the good 'ol days? Back in the 70's I remember paying 50 something cents a gallon, but I only made $2/hr and my car got 8 mpg's. We both know what his meritless "point" was.
Good ole days were when everything was cheap. Who said anything about the 1970s?