And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Diesel was even cheaper, as it was considered a difficult to market by-product in the refining of gasoline. I've been told by an old timer in Grass Valley that he paid 13¢ a gallon for fuel to run his B Model Mack log truck in the '50s.
I sure never thought I'd live to see six buck a gallon diesel. SMH.
Biden has nothing to do with gas prices. Oil (and therefore gas) is a global commodity that is internationally traded. US gas prices are impacted by events all over the world that are out of Biden, Trump or Obama's control. American oil exports are the highest they have ever been. (https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/imports-and-exports.php) American oil production in 2023 is near the max set before the pandemic and in line to set daily oil production records in late 2023/2024. US drilling is a function of oil price. If price drops drilling stops. If price goes up drilling starts. It is called a free market.
You can f*ck Joe Biden if that what you want... but that is also going to have no impact on gas prices.
Common sense is relative. What you may think makes sense doesn't to others. There are plenty of data sources that will not lie to you. Data doesn't lie. API (American Petroleum Institute), EIA (US Energy information Administration), Baker Hughes Rig Count, etc.
If you wanted to f*ck a world leader in hopes that the price of gas came down I suggest f*cking Putin and Mohammed Bin Salman... Those guys are artificially restricting their production to keep prices up. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/saudi-arabia-extends-voluntary-oil-output-cut-1-mln-bpd-end-2023-2023-09-05/
That is only some digital art, not a historical photo. Actual gasoline prices at the pump in the late 40s and early 50s was $0.26 or $0.27. The last time gas was available for $0.15 was in the early 30s during the depression. Before the depression, in the mid to late 20s, gas was over $0.20 per gallon.
according to where you lived at the time i suppose. it was in the teens a lot around here in the 60's and some in the early 70's. st.louis area. cheapest i ever paid was 13 cents a gallon in st. james,mo. 1971.
Matthew, if you'll look closely, you can see a later model white van in the background.This is someone's gas antiques collection. Note also the old truck display on the left. Pretty cool set up! Bubbarust
In 1966, I was a pump jockey at the MFA gas station located at Sunshine and Glenstone in Springfield MO. I distinctly remember gas being 15.9 cents a gallon for a while. Used to put a buck's worth in the Chevy and drive all weekend. I made 75 cents per hour at the MFA station.
In 1971 when I was a senior in high school I worked for the local Fina distributor as a weekend shift manage for their company owned service station located in front of their offices, oil warehouse, and bulk plant.
During the gas wars we sold regular gas for as low as 12.9 cents per gallon. We had lines out into the street. This was when the national brands were trying to run all of the independent stations out of business. Normal price was 29.9 cents per gallon.
Expensive energy will make us change the way we source that energy. Nothing more. We used to hunt whales for energy. When this energy source became too expensive (whales became harder to find) we switched to other sources and technological evolution didn't stop. Furthermore, new sources of energy made further technological evolution possible.
I don't understand why people get so invested in energy coming from one source. Renewables are the easiest most reliable way to not only become energy independent but also having the price of local energy become independent from global markets. Oil price in the us is set by global oil markets. If we switched to solar (or any other locally produced energy) then energy price in the US would be set by OUR installed production capacity. In other words the more we produce the cheaper it gets. Electricity can't be exported to China...
Is that why we see so many little windmills in people's trailer hitches? That wind will power your F250. Fossil fuels are renewable energy. Check out the science.
I really don't see how you can "renew" oil, coal or natural gas... Unless you are willing to wait a few million years under high pressure/temperature for organic matter to turn into oil... I don't know you but I don't have a few million years to wait. Check out the science.
You also made about 50 cents an hour.
ReplyDeleteWhen I learned to drive gas at independent stations was 24.9. Dem were the days...
ReplyDeleteI should have added my first minimum wage job was at $1.50 an hour.
DeleteThe same ratio is $21.62/hr if $3.30 at the pump.
DeleteDiesel was even cheaper, as it was considered a difficult to market by-product in the refining of gasoline. I've been told by an old timer in Grass Valley that he paid 13¢ a gallon for fuel to run his B Model Mack log truck in the '50s.
ReplyDeleteI sure never thought I'd live to see six buck a gallon diesel. SMH.
Up until the late 1980 ranch diesel was $0.50/gal. Regular gas (not ranch pricing) was $1.87.
DeletePrice break to $0.48 at 1,600 gallons.
Deletein the mid 60's i had an old mini bike with a 1/2 gal. tank. i could ride it around the corner to the gas station and fill it up for a dime.
DeleteWhen I first became aware of gasoline pricing as a child, the price wasn't to the 9/10ths. I remember $0.24 5/10ths.
ReplyDeleteGay Parita Gas Station, 21118 Old US66, near I-44 exit 57, west of Springfield, MO. US66 tourist spot.
ReplyDeleteI grew up west of Springfield, I am not sure where this is. I must have missed it.
Deleteawesome spot, thanks.
DeleteF*ck Joe Biden
ReplyDeletePresident Biden has no control over gas prices.
DeleteThink again Rocky. Let’s deplete reserves and restrict drilling.
DeletePull your head out of your butt
his bladder or bowel, either
DeleteBiden has nothing to do with gas prices.
DeleteOil (and therefore gas) is a global commodity that is internationally traded. US gas prices are impacted by events all over the world that are out of Biden, Trump or Obama's control.
American oil exports are the highest they have ever been. (https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/imports-and-exports.php)
American oil production in 2023 is near the max set before the pandemic and in line to set daily oil production records in late 2023/2024.
US drilling is a function of oil price. If price drops drilling stops. If price goes up drilling starts. It is called a free market.
You can f*ck Joe Biden if that what you want... but that is also going to have no impact on gas prices.
Really? You defy common sense.
DeleteCommon sense is relative. What you may think makes sense doesn't to others.
DeleteThere are plenty of data sources that will not lie to you. Data doesn't lie.
API (American Petroleum Institute), EIA (US Energy information Administration), Baker Hughes Rig Count, etc.
If you wanted to f*ck a world leader in hopes that the price of gas came down I suggest f*cking Putin and Mohammed Bin Salman... Those guys are artificially restricting their production to keep prices up.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/saudi-arabia-extends-voluntary-oil-output-cut-1-mln-bpd-end-2023-2023-09-05/
1948 Ford?
ReplyDeleteThat is only some digital art, not a historical photo. Actual gasoline prices at the pump in the late 40s and early 50s was $0.26 or $0.27. The last time gas was available for $0.15 was in the early 30s during the depression. Before the depression, in the mid to late 20s, gas was over $0.20 per gallon.
ReplyDeleteI remember 19 cents a gallon and there was a gas station on every corner.
DeleteIt says "GAS WAR" right under the 15 cent sign.
Deleteaccording to where you lived at the time i suppose. it was in the teens a lot around here in the 60's and some in the early 70's. st.louis area. cheapest i ever paid was 13 cents a gallon in st. james,mo. 1971.
DeleteMatthew, if you'll look closely, you can see a later model white van in the background.This is someone's gas antiques collection. Note also the old
ReplyDeletetruck display on the left. Pretty cool set up!
Bubbarust
yea, but we didn't have 16 cents back then. just sayin.
ReplyDeleteIn 1966, I was a pump jockey at the MFA gas station located at Sunshine and Glenstone in Springfield MO. I distinctly remember gas being 15.9 cents a gallon for a while. Used to put a buck's worth in the Chevy and drive all weekend. I made 75 cents per hour at the MFA station.
ReplyDeletegas was 19 cents in Waco in 1971. I was driving a 1947 Mercury, similar to the Ford in this picture and I still have it
ReplyDeleteI distinctly remember it being nineteen cents a gallon at the Tulsa station on Plymouth Road near Telegraph in Detroit in the early seventies.
DeleteI paid 24.9 in Freeport, CA (just south of Sacramento on the River Road) in '73. I topped off my Power Wagon for less than five bucks. Amazing.
DeleteI was 22, didn't have a care. Working for peanuts, not a dime to spare.
But I was lean and solid everywhere. Like a Rock.
In 1971 when I was a senior in high school I worked for the local Fina distributor as a weekend shift manage for their company owned service station located in front of their offices, oil warehouse, and bulk plant.
ReplyDeleteDuring the gas wars we sold regular gas for as low as 12.9 cents per gallon. We had lines out into the street. This was when the national brands were trying to run all of the independent stations out of business. Normal price was 29.9 cents per gallon.
BTW I was making $1.65 an hour.
Cheap energy made modern life possible. Expensive energy will take it apart.
ReplyDeleteExpensive energy will make us change the way we source that energy. Nothing more.
DeleteWe used to hunt whales for energy. When this energy source became too expensive (whales became harder to find) we switched to other sources and technological evolution didn't stop. Furthermore, new sources of energy made further technological evolution possible.
I don't understand why people get so invested in energy coming from one source. Renewables are the easiest most reliable way to not only become energy independent but also having the price of local energy become independent from global markets.
Oil price in the us is set by global oil markets. If we switched to solar (or any other locally produced energy) then energy price in the US would be set by OUR installed production capacity. In other words the more we produce the cheaper it gets. Electricity can't be exported to China...
Is that why we see so many little windmills in people's trailer hitches? That wind will power your F250. Fossil fuels are renewable energy. Check out the science.
ReplyDeleteI really don't see how you can "renew" oil, coal or natural gas... Unless you are willing to wait a few million years under high pressure/temperature for organic matter to turn into oil...
DeleteI don't know you but I don't have a few million years to wait. Check out the science.