Those were the days...

[ttyymmnn]

I'm going through and organizing/deleting old photos on my phone and found this from December 2018. No idea where it was, though it was probably Austin, or why I took it. But I could use some buck-seventy-five gas right now.

[ibRAD]

@ttyymmnn Looks normal to me. 'course I buy gas by the liter!

[ranwhenparked]

@ttyymmnn Gee our old Saab ran great

[ttyymmnn]

@ranwhenparked

Had the thing since '68....

[Skyfire77]

@ttyymmnn Probably mentioned this before, but I've been watching the MST3K Twitch stream and catching eps that I missed before. During episode 904 (first aired in 1998) they watch Werewolf (filmed in 1995), and in one scene a character drives (repeatedly) past a gas station. At one point Crow remarks "Look at those prices! Where are they, Port-au-Prince?!", referring to the high cost of gas on Hati in the wake of the 1991 coup, 1994 departure of the resulting junta and arrival of 20,000 peacekeeping troops from the US, and the close pass by Hurricane Gordon.

The sky-high prices in the movie? $1.45/gal for regular.

[Chariotoflove]

@ttyymmnn
I remember a point around 1984 where it hit $0.62/gal that summer.

[tophercrowder]

@Chariotoflove I could fill the 30 gal tank of my 75 caddy for 28 bucks in 87. Nine miles to the gallon hurt though

[ttyymmnn]

@Chariotoflove said in Those were the days...:

@ttyymmnn
I remember a point around 1984 where it hit $0.62/gal that summer.

Yup. I could put $5 in our VW Rabbit and drive all night.

[tophercrowder]

$1.45 for mid grade in 2002
Photo is from my personal digital art photo hard drive

[Chariotoflove]

@tophercrowder said in Those were the days...:

@Chariotoflove I could fill the 30 gal tank of my 75 caddy for 28 bucks in 87. Nine miles to the gallon hurt though

Worth the price of admission though.

[ttyymmnn]

@tophercrowder

According to the inflation calculator, that $1.45 would be $2.29 today. What did gas cost before the corona virus and Putin's Ukraine shenanigans?

[tophercrowder]

@ttyymmnn Remember that this was in 2002, shortly after 9-11 and Iraq.

[fintail]

@tophercrowder I recall PUG being around $1/gal in late 1998- in WA state!

I also recall when houses locally that are 600K were more like 200K tops, under 10 years ago. What a world.

[ttyymmnn]

@fintail

We paid $237k for our 1400 sq/ft home about 20 years ago. Same house in the neighborhood sells for $500k. This is Austin, but damn. I'd love to cash out, but where would I go?

[fintail]

@ttyymmnn probably far away from Austin, I hear that's a tough market. Many are in the same boat, or financed at such a low rate that it'd make no logical sense to give up that low priced mortgage.

I bought only last year and already it'd be a real stretch if I had to do it at today's prices and rates.

[Darkbrador]

@Chariotoflove Yeah but but but ... that'd be still $1.69 in today's money. It's not apple to apple.

[Chariotoflove]

@Darkbrador said in Those were the days...:

@Chariotoflove Yeah but but but ... that'd be still $1.69 in today's money. It's not apple to apple.

Quiet you! Leave an old man his nostalgia.

[Old Busted Hotness]

I still have 5 gallons of 99-cent gas from the first big Covid lockdown.

[ranwhenparked]

@ttyymmnn Well, it had been steadily rising already - $3.40 in January 2022, 1 month pre-invasion, vs $2.36 the year before

[davesaddiction]

@ttyymmnn

So, I remember seeing 0.73 cents a gallon (not sure if that was before or after I actually started paying for it). What's the lowest you recall?

[ttyymmnn]

@davesaddiction

The lowest I can recall was ~85¢.