Well, things change, don't they?  I drove my mother's Rambler American to commute to college in the 1960s.  Gas was $0.18 per gallon, the car got 25 mpg, excellent for the time.  A ten gallon fill up cost $1.80.  The fifty mile round trip required 2 fill ups a week, making the gas for my commute $3.60 for the week.

My college tuition for a semester was $50, books cost $3-5 a pop, and I could get lunch in the college cafeteria for $1.25.

I could take my date to dinner at a decent place plus a movie for $8.  Beer was $1.50 a six pack, or $1.10 if one was willing to brave the wrong side of the river (but that $0.40 mattered to me and my compadres of the time).

Of course, I worked for $1.25 an hour refueling airplanes.

mcneely

---- Tom Hargrave <thargrav@HIWAAY.NET> wrote:
> I remember when I could drive to work all week for less then $13.00!
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> On the way home from work last night I stopped for gas, had $13 in my
> wallet. That put 3 gallons in my bus @ $4.259 ea...
> Sad times but still glad gas is available.
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> Rob
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