For The Record...
I spent more filling up my car last week than I did on groceries! Yep..$99.00 at the pump. When we first married, $99 was an entire month's food bill (I know, I know, that was 27 years ago)
The feeling I had spending $99 at the gas pump was similar to the sinking feeling I had the first time I spent $99 on Groceries in one week, not one month.
On the same record:
Thank you to all Gas Station owners who decided to finally keep up with the side effects of rising Gas Prices. Finally, the pumps do not turn off automatically at $50, no, not even $75, now they are set to go off automatically at $100. My gratitude for this change is a double edged sort of gratitude. No, I am not happy about the price I pay at the gas pump, however, yes, I do not miss having to wait for the sale to reach $50, complete the sale, and re-scan my credit card for part two of the ridiculously expensive gas purchase. Eliminating this annoying step may ( I mean-just may-no guarantee) take the edge off the sinking feeling I have as I watch the numbers go high and higher by the second.
When I started driving, gas was 35 cents per gallon. I felt generous to contribute $2-$3 worth of gas to the family car gas tank. At that price, the contribution was actually noticeable!
What was the price of gas when you started driving?
5 comments:
$1.30/gallon when I started driving around 1995.
It costs me about $50-60 to fill up the minivan right now. Luckily, I only use a tank of gas every 10-14 days. It's nice to have a "free" waterpark in our neighborhood (cuts down on summer driving). Of course if you count the HOA fees and high taxes we pay to live here, it's not really free.
I feel your pain. I feel like retep drives to work to make the money so that he can drive to work. We pay twice as much in gas as we do in groceries. I try to go to as few places as I can these days. I really hope it goes back down.
We're probably one of few families that hasn't really felt the 'pain at the pump'. It's times like these that I don't feel so bad having sold my car and taking public transportation. Don't get me wrong, I'm no environmentalist, I just didn't need a car for driving 10 miles a week to and from the train station. Of course, Carmen still has her car, but one tank to fill is much easier than 2.
I am feeling the pain in several ways... postage is now very expensive as well making it more difficult in the home business arena. And, I feel like the price of groceries is climbing as well. I don't remember what gas cost when I started driving because I didn't drive a lot until I was about 29 and had my own car and then it was about 1.25 I think. I miss 1.25, :(
I got my driver's license on my 16th birthday. I also got 50 cents a day for "lunch". (I never got a cost of living raise!!)
I drove a big steel (or so it seemed) 1949 chevy with a hemi and a holly. On my way to school I stopped and spent TWENTY-FIVE CENTS on petrol. That was usually one gallon depending on the "gas wars". That left me 25 cents to buy a maple bar donut and a milk during snack break at school. I bummed lunch.
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