HI GUYS JUST WANTED TO KNOW SOME OF THE PRICES OF GAS AROUND THE COUNTRY. HERE IN NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA , WABASH THE PRICE OF UNLEADED WAS 2.159 PER GAL . DEISEL 2.369 PER GAL.

RALPH GLOVER
1976 27' BARTH

Here are some:

http://gasbuddy.com/

http://gaspricewatch.com/usgas_index.asp

http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/gasprices/states/index.shtml

http://www.fuelgaugereport.com/

Here at the Port Townsend Safeway with a Safeway Club card and a fill-up over $50(not hard with the motor home) the price is $1.98 a gallon. I always think about my first car that I only paid $50 for and that is what I spend on a fill-up for my pick-up. There was one station that the gas was twenty cents a gallon and there were girls in swim suits that put the gas in the tank and cleaned the windshield. It was always fun to dig up all your spare change to go to that station.

Not a good year for traveling with the price going up & Up!1.959 a gal in Kingston,Tn. Guess we plan on going to town & that it!

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Jay&Shelby 95 Barth Regency 34ft. 8.3 Cummins 300 hp.
Spartan K2 MM.

In the Pittsburgh area reg.gas just went to 2.05.9. Diesel 2.29.9. Hard to beleive I bought fuel in the late sixtys for 19.9
I'll take the good old days!

We're still at 1.93-1.95 here in suburbs of the Minneapple. We can get it a dime cheaper if we want to drive out to the casino...we don't unless we need to dump our tanks.

Now as far as memories are concerned. When I bought my first new car, a Pinto in 1971 I think. I am sure I could fill it for well under $3 bucks.





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Over 2.10 p/gal and climing in the deep south and we're just steps away from refinery and offshore oil fields. Of, course, all the many wells drilled in the Gulf or capped as soon as oil is found and saved fora future date. This has been SOP for the past 20 years. We have lots more oil than "they" let on. Probably smart to save ours.
Most folks look at us RVer's through squinted eyes if we complain of fuel prices, anyway. Many even blame us and yet the automomile industry keeps pumping out the muscle cars we famopus for and love.
I don't believe we've seen anything yet regarding higher prices. I paid over $2 p/gal in Jamaca in the early 70's. Compared to the rest of the world, we've evidently been spoiled and the good-old-days of gas wars (15 cents p/gal), just fond memories.

Very true Dogill, another thing is that when I could fill my Pinto up for under $3 I was only making $150.00 a week as an assistant manager of a bowling alley. I rented a very nice one bedroom appartment in the San Fernando Valley for I think $75-80 a month furnished. This is 1970. Maybe it was $100 a month but no more than that for sure, furnished by the way in cheezy mediteranian.

One other big diff is that when I quit smoking 25 years ago cigs cost maybe, $.35 a pack $.50 in a machine now what are they $4 or something but even when I know those facts I read this; Household Wealth is the Highest It's ever Been..

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPSt...siness/International

When I read that it says: Debt has increased by 11%, the reason household value is higher is because real estate is inflated. In 1971 I made a bit over $25,000 as an Electrician. Anything over 8hrs/day or 40hrs./week was doubletime, all that and more was given up in the 80's to "be competitve" with who or what I still don't know ... That year (1970)I bought a new Datsun 510 station wagon for $2350 w/radio, a new (unsold 1970) Velocette MSS Motorcycle for $1150 and a 1938 Farm House on two acres over lookng the Columbia River, in the unincorporated area just east of Vancouver, WA. for $25,000. Today that Datsun is worthless, the Vello is worth around $10 grand, but, that House, as just sold last week for $750,000.. (and I gave it away in a divorce). I sure as hell didn't make 3/4 of a million dollars last year and I don't know any electricians who did.... In my view, with wages as low as they are and prices as high as they are, this is the worst economy America has had since the Depression of the 1930's. In the last four years it has become so bad you practically have to save up to buy a "job". If you're over 50 and out of work...... well, you probably won't have a sustaining job ever again.
Cheers(?), John
p.s., gas is $2.05 for regular here and Diesel is around $2.65... I thought diesel was the first to come off in refining fuel, what's wrong with this picture?

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John is on the track of something here. The first sentence of that article reads, "Rising real estate prices and a resurgent stock market pushed the net wealth of American households to a record $48.3 trillion in the fourth quarter of 2004."

My first home, 4 1/2% G.I. loan, $94.00 a month, now 50 years old, would sell for about $190,000 today. At today's pay scale for the job I had, it would take 2 incomes to qualify.

One of the principles of propaganda is accentuate the positive, and ignore, deny, or downplay the negative, and what that rosy article doesn't tell us, is that one in three Americans doesn't own a home, and fewer than half of us are in the stock market. Those people don't share the wealth, and are squeezed by rent increases generated by inflated real estate values.

This nation is doing very well for us fat cats, but not the folks at the bottom . The richest nation in the world should be able to let us all progress, but homelessness in our little town increases, as does attendance at food banks. Poor folks are being squeezed out by low wages and high housing prices.

When you live in a wealthy suburb, you probably never see the embarrassed look on the face of a grocery customer who has to buy their groceries with food stamps. In our little town, I see it often.

We are slowly moving to a two-class economy--plutocrats and peasants. Overpopulation may not be the cause, but it is an enabler.

We just got gas today in Huntington, IN and paid 1.99 a gallon. That is just 14 miles from Wabash, IN where it is higher. Make sense out of that.

Cowboy

Been paying 1.99 for the last few weeks in Yuma at one station, this morning i got gas at a different place and it was 2.07 for regular.Will have to check the other place and see if it went up. Heard that at the end of the season here gas always takes a big jump. Gouging the Snowbirds as they leave? When we lived in Strawberry we could get gas in Payson for 10 to 20 cents a gallon cheaper than down in Phoenix 80 miles away. Could never figure that one out either, but learned real quick to fill up before we headed down the hill.

Well gas is 2.07 at my regular station too and diesel is 2.29

here it is 1.95 a gal. I will be using my roadtrek more this summer, it gets about 17 mpg.I will take my barth to the lake a leave it there this summer. gook luck to all . James@ Helen