As a little kid I remember gasoline at 25 cents a gallon. If stations had "gas wars" it might be under 20 cents. Full service gas stations, check the oil, tire pressure, wipe the windshield, you didn't have to get out of the car. They might even give you drinking glasses. I was able to legally drive in 1979. In 1980 gas hit $1/ gallon. Gas station pumps couldn't calculate that shit, it was inconceivable. So they sold gasoline buy the half gallon, 51 cents or whatever / half gallon.
Today the least expensive unleaded gallon of gas I saw just driving around was $4.25 / gallon. Thank you, Joe. I love you, man.
I remember too. I remember my dad filling up his tank and forgot his wallet, the gas station attendant said don't worry about it pal, I got you. Both filling up before paying and a clerk paying for you is something we will never experience again.
My grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles would drive for miles to get gas that was 2 or 3 cents a gallon cheaper. saving 45 cents or something was meaningful enough back then.
Blake Wilson
I remember as a little kid growing up and hearing my parents grumbling about how the gas was too expensive now that it was $1.20. Working at a gas station now and I just laugh whenever some old faggot yells at me because gas is $5.39.
People don't even put up Biden stickers anymore. Now it's just clown emoji stickers on every pump. Honk honk.
5 cents when you were 10 is now 33 cents. We're heading to a future where $1 will be the new penny, and the dollar will be as worthwhile as a Japanese yen. A sandwich at McDonalds will be $520 and it'll be considered cheap.
The confusion when they started selling it by the half gallon was real. What the fuck is this commie shit? The pumps were almost all still mechanical and couldn't calculate anything over .99 / gallon. It took a couple of years for most places to replace their pumps. I'm sure no one made any fortunes off of that.
Julian Perez
Pumps, at least nowadays, are all done by 3rd party companies. Basically every pump in a 50 mile radius of my store, be it from Quiktrip or Chevron or even the Indian-owned ghetto gas stations that charge $4 for a pack of Swishers due to their super-melaninated clientele, purchase pumps from the same manufacturer.
It's kind of like how all microwaves are actually made by the same company in China. Literally 90%+ of microwaves are all built by one company that customizes them to their client's standards.
Andrew Wright
I remember .32 cents a gallon. And just two years ago is was under $2 at $1.79
Jason Hall
I had to fill up my work truck this morning at a small town of 300 people in Minnesota.. they still had pump before you pay…
Jack Walker
Based. I bet the white replacement rate was better then, too.
Jackson King
>I was able to legally drive in 1979. >born in 1963 >Gen Xers are now pushing 60 Holy shit.
Justin Russell
I remember in 2002 when gas went down to $0.70 cents and then "skyrocketed to $2.00" and everyone freaked out
Bentley Baker
Well yes, but that led to the problems we have now. >No widely used birth control >Divorce laws suddenly get changed, no fault divorce is the norm >Huge rise in white single mothers >White single mothers become incredibly liberal and raise large amounts of anti-social Gen X kids >Said kids grow up and start voting hard left if they haven't already killed themselves due to the downsides of being raised by a single mother I've said it before and I'll say it again - we need to change the divorce laws to what they were 100 years ago before white birthrates will go back to normal. Banning abortion and contraceptives won't work. At best you'll just make the rate of incels skyrocket to the point where >50% of under-30s are incels. At worst you'll quadruple the amount of single mothers.
Mason Long
>At best you'll just make the rate of incels skyrocket to the point where >50% of under-30s are incels aren't we already at like 33%, is 50% really a stretch?
Nicholas Brooks
And you'll never experience the world without tracking and the freedom to be 13 years old and ride your bicycle down the street with a couple of rifles slung over your shoulders and the neighbors saying, "Hey! tell your Dad I said hi!"
Jacob Ross
Yes. At 50%+ you'll see some absolute societal despair. All those young men will become super radicalized.
Noah Peterson
There's an episode of the Waltons (Set in 1933-1945) where a rich city feller yells at the the general store owner because gas is 12cents a gallon up in the mountains.
Gabriel Turner
user is an actual boomer. >Researchers and popular media use the mid-to-late 1960s as starting birth years and the late 1970s to early 1980s as ending birth years, with the generation being generally defined as people born from 1965 to 1980.[1
Liam Howard
Remember the free set of drinking glasses?
Owen Johnson
All I remember about gas in the 70s was the smell of leaded exhaust. It was heavy, not like exhaust today.
Dylan Robinson
Based. As everything's gotten easier, men have gotten much weaker.
Juan Thomas
My cousin worked a full service station when I was a kid, I'm not even 40.
Christian Wilson
Adjusted for inflation, that's around $3.50/gallon. It was enough to be a tremendous crisis that torpedoed the entire economy
