Yeah I remember my senior year of high school (1999) I paid 98 cents per gallon.

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Originally Posted by Inferno You just don't relate to my sense of humor. How about this. Gosh darn funny man living in a whale. doncha know that gawd could do that I betcha he could. wink wink.

Yeah its right around 3.7 liters.

If you want to get technical, 1 Gal = 3.78541178 L

So yeah in 1999 in the State of Utah in the United States I clearly remember paying .98 cents per Gallon (or 3.7 L) of Gasoline.

Now in 2008, only 9 years later I am paying almost 3.50 per gallon or 3.7 L.


Clearly something awful happened over that time period. lol.

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minimum wage was at 60 to 90 cents, do the numbers. Also in the 50s folks in Europe were walking, riding bikes and mopeds, their cars were little more than wheelbarrows. I think if you did a study, you would find that politicans perks and salarys far out stripted any increase in fuel costs in the past 60 years.

Part of the problem is that Americans have refused to look for oil in our own lands. We only used the large fossil fuel deposits that jumped up and bit us in the face (texas). We have in place a moratorium on looking for and extracting oil deposits in places like ANWAR and off the gulf coast. We need to tell our congress that we want to be less dependent on foriegn oil.
Some of the strides that auto makers and researchers have made have been great and I fully support those. But all Americans aren't suddenly gonna buy hydrogen fuel cell cars the day they become commercially available so a longer term solution is needed. It will take years (and I mean, years) before those burgeoning technologies truly hit the marketplace and become cheap enough for all of us to own one.
What we need to do is start drilling where we know there's oil and take it to the market here. We need to stop regulating the different "mixes" of gasoline that play havoc with the market on a seasonal basis (winter and summer mix). We need to make a choice. Are we going to save the planet or save ourselves?

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I remember when prices were around 25 cents a gallon.

Gas prices around the world. not sure how recent this is. remember in the 1st gulf war we liberated Kuwait ??? this chart shows its 78 cents a gal !!!! and Saudi Arabia at 91 cents. and I remember Iraq at one time was less than 5 cents.

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o.O no there's not.

I can remember my dad telling me a story about when he was a kid, he used to have a go kart, and I asked him how he paid for the gas at 12 years old. He said, "We just collected bottles and cans and took them to be recycled." I was amazed by this because I have never paid less than $3/gallon.

I still think that oil companies are making too much money to have those prices that high. I understand that crude oil has gone up but couldn't they take a smaller percentage in profits.

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89 cents a gallon around the time I first got my license in March 2000. Those were the good days...

Im sure everyone will be happy to know that congress is at work messing things up then. Seems they have but the kabosh on using sand/shale oil

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