"LRod" wrote:

I don't know what "many years ago" is to you, but it takes me back
to
my yout of the '50s, when regular was commonly 22¢ a gallon or
thereabouts.

Along about that time gas wars were common in Detroit.

Would hear stories about $0.16-$0.18 sometimers as low as $0.15/gal
from people who had just been to Detroit.

Of course, to put things in perspective, minimum wage was $050/hr for
part time help and had gotten all the way to $1.00/hr for a 40 hour
week by thye time I graduated from hiogh school.

Still remember going to the Amoco station and filling up my motorcycle
(less than 2 gal) with their super Hi-Test for $0.50 which lasted ALL
week.