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gas was around $0.75 when i started driving and had climbed to an "astronomical" $1.15 when i sold the Monte and bought the GL. i was saving like $5 per week, which for a college kid was a lot.
now i am happy to pay $3.25 for Premium.
oddly, i've never bought anything but Premium...
For Sale:
- Sony PSP with a Baseball 2k6 and the movie Crash. $100
- 1973 Karmann Ghia Convertible w/ Auto-Stick. Needs Restoration. $1200 OBO
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Originally posted by Beachboy:
Originally posted by todras:
I'm sold old it was free!!!!!!!!
When I started driving, gas was 22 cents a gallon! Todras must be older than me, and I thought I was the oldest CEG'er out there!
hell if gas was 22 cents a gallon now id be doing donuts and driving like an arsehole ALL the time! 
i started driving in 93. gas was about .85 cents iirc. i remember it used to cost like $8 to fill up my sister's tercel. i remember back in the summer of 1995 when the gas prices really spiked my car club was driving to the Colorado river in Parker, AZ and we had to stop in the middle of nowhere to get gas. $1.79 for 87 (thats all they had) and everyone was moaning over the cost. one of my friends drove his gas guzzling 57 chevy out there. said it cost him like $100, back then! cant imagine what it would cost now 
Originally posted by Tourgasm:
Sometimes you can mess up a word so bad that spell check doens't know what the hell you're talking about.
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Originally posted by todras:
I'm sold old it was free!!!!!!!!
OH YA......Well, I'm so old...Gas was still walking on four legs....!!
2012 Lotus Evora
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95 Mystique MTX - GONE 395,000 Kms
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'97 Contour Mtx - stock - GONE
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I got my first car just before I turned 18 in '93, and gas in Illinois (about 60 miles SW of Chicago) fluctuated between $.99 and about $1.20. This remained the case through Spring '99 when it had one last hurrah at a buck, and since then the world has been waking up to the worthlessness of our fiat currency which, combined with more well known crises has driven things to where they are now.  --T.J.
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I have no life
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I have no life
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Originally posted by WestCoastAjax:
OH YA......Well, I'm so old...Gas was still walking on four legs....!!
-'96 SE MTX 3L
-'98 SVT 1,173 of 6,535
-'05 Mazda 6s, loaded, g/f's ride
-Need a 96-00 manual on CD? PM or email me
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like a 1.30 in 01
1.75 for premium when i got my contour in 03
05 Chevy Colorado z71 4x4 *for sale*
97 Honda Accord 4door track whore *12.9 N/A* (blown and wrecked)
97 Honda Accord 4 door
03 Eclipse GS
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I don't remember, that would have been 1986. The lowest price I remember was in the recent past (1998 or 1999) in the Atlanta area. $.69 per gallon was unusual but happened a few times. I'm glad too, I used to commute 110 miles a day for 2 years!
MUST SELL - ECM computer new for a 98 V6 mtx + pats
Now trolling in a Red Nissan 4 x 4
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I grew up just outside of Chicago and when I started it was about $1.10-1.27 in 2000.
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Cool Toe Chris
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Cool Toe Chris
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I remember paying $.75/gal back in '93. I remember I gave the attendent $2 for gas, just to get me to work and back. Got me almost 2.5 gallons and I was good to go on my ~40mpg Civic.
Chris
NJ
98.5 SVT Silver Frost
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Cheapest I ever paid was .79 a gallon. I used to actually be able to afford to drive the cuda every day.
99 csvt
68 cuda fastback 340
00 gp gtp (wife)
01 gs500
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