Remember the good ole days of $1.30/gallon of gas?

[zbdent]

And the Republicans screaming about how it could go to $2+ a gallon with Al Gore as President?

Ahh, the good old days.

Now the Repukes are the ones saying "how good we have it here in the US" and "Well, compare it to other 'liquids' price per gallon . . ."

[bluestateguy]

1. That used to be expensive where I live

When I moved to Austin in the summer of 1998 gas was 80 cents a gallon.

[thereismore]

2. I remember $.99 a gallon. I am sure you can push that even lower nt

[shraby]

4. I remember $.29 a gallon.

That was in the 60s.

[EVDebs]

6. And $0.25 movies ! And I've only just got my AARP card ! eom

[dweller]

9. 0.19 here, buying my first gallon

and it had gone UP from the previous weeks when i was riding around with my brother ... then i had gotten my license and inherited his Corvair.
I was mobile! (He had bought a Rambler, sold me the Corvair for $75).

those were the days, and still in the 1960's.
dp

[49jim]

11. Summer of '70 I was in

DesMoines, IA. Gas war 19 cents a gallon. Filled up my future father-in laws Ford Galaxie convertable (24 gallon tank) for less than $5.00!

[zbdent]

8. My point is that it was the Repukes screaming about the "possibility"

of high gas prices - pushing $2 per gallon or more - as the definitive issue of the 2000 election - "Look at the gas prices! They're abominable! Vote this sucker out!"

[gaia_gardener]

10. Crap it was $0.85/gallon

in 2001 (right before 9/11) in OK. That was the lowest I'd ever paid, but I remember $0.79/gallon when I was a kid.

[TheFarseer]

3. I remember 88 cents

right around 2000

[EVDebs]

5. High gas prices will tank 'globalization' and spotlight our military

Globalization requires low gas prices for those far-flung supply/distribution lines. Our military will need to also fuel itself on something other than oil too, just as back when Churchill required the British fleet to switch from coal to oil...and the rest of the world followed suit.

Since consumer prices are always around 5% of the barrel price, we need to figure out how badly this will affect us with estimates by Goldman Sachs of possible $110 a barrel oil. At over $5 a gallon, with most people driving under 20 miles per day, things will still hurt and we need to figure ways to encourage strong regional economies, and not the Wal-Martized world we've got now.

[jedr]

7. could be an upside to that;

a return to " Main Street U.S.A." could be good for us all.

[phantom power]

12. I also remember them predicting...

how the tax code would get so much more complicated under Gore. Sure enough, it has continued to get more complicated under Bush.

Oh well, at least we still have peace and prosperity. Oh, wait...