Back In The Days Of Cheap Gasoline

[dmelton]

When I bought my first car gas was 28.9 cents per gallon. That day a gas war started and went down to 17.9 all weekend long I drove many miles . I worked in a gas station and 6.9 gallons was $2.00 plus we checked oil and water and battery, washed the windows and ask if thwere was anything else.

[TexasTruck72]

I too would love it if they got rid of the ethanol.

No kidding! Me too.

I buy non-ethanol gas whenever I can. It's only available in or near SC for me, so I have to drive about 1 hr to get(which makes it unpractical). Although, there is a station in Winder, Ga(20 mins away) that sells REAL gasoline but they charge about 80 cents more than regular ethanol gas per gallon. So I'm faced with paying $3.12 for regular gasoline that has ethanol in it, driving 50 mins towards SC to get real gas for $3.20(non-ethanol), or pay $4.04 for real gas only 20 mins away. I wouldn't mind moving to SC for cheap gas prices and availability of non-ethanol gasoline at every corner.

On the same subject, I was sadly reminded recently when I saw an old roadside gas station sign(all dilapidated and falling apart) with all the gas prices starting with a period and two decimal places. Whenever that sign was built, they probably never figured gas would be over $1.

[NM5K]

With all the shale drilling that is forecast, we could see a glut of oil before too long, and
in theory prices would drop down fairly low. But.. I suspect they will sell a lot of it overseas,
and we may near see near the drop one would expect.
Natural gas fell through the floor because it's hard to ship overseas, but with more LNG
facilities, that could change eventually, and prices will crank back up.

But they are saying they are looking at a near future shale oil scenario much like the current
natural gas scene. They could end up bringing it up faster than they can sell it.
They are predicting we will be the #1 oil producer before too long, bypassing Saudi
Arabia, etc, etc.. The shale plays look to be huge, and there are several of them.
But oil is not hard to ship like natural gas is.. So a lot will end up going elsewhere.

I started driving in 1973.. The average for regular was about 32 cents a gallon, and I
would get fairly high octane premium for 35-37 cents a gal.. My first car had a 396, and
it liked the good stuff.
I've always thought using a food product "corn" to make fuel was about the silliest thing ever..
Not only is it less energy per gallon, but it's jacking food and feed prices higher.
I can't get non ethanol gas around here, but I can when I'm up in Oklahoma. There, some
have it, some don't.
When I get gas for my mowers and chain saws, I always look for one that has no ethanol,
which is fairly easy as one of the stations near my place up there has non ethanol gas.

[abe]

With all the shale drilling that is forecast, we could see a glut of oil before too long, and
in theory prices would drop down fairly low. But.. I suspect they will sell a lot of it overseas,
and we may near see near the drop one would expect.
Natural gas fell through the floor because it's hard to ship overseas, but with more LNG
facilities, that could change eventually, and prices will crank back up.

But they are saying they are looking at a near future shale oil scenario much like the current
natural gas scene. They could end up bringing it up faster than they can sell it.
They are predicting we will be the #1 oil producer before too long, bypassing Saudi
Arabia, etc, etc.. The shale plays look to be huge, and there are several of them.
But oil is not hard to ship like natural gas is.. So a lot will end up going elsewhere.

I live in Central PA right in the middle of the Marcellus Shale gas field. Because of the dropin price they have capped a lot of the wells around here or are waiting for pipeline to be laid to get the gas to the main line... and they are not in the process of laying that line right now....

All you said above can happen of this greenie liberal president allows it to happen!