I almost had a chance to pay $2.99/gal today for gas

[CRF450]

The local Farm Fresh was selling gas for $2.99 a gallon, but I missed my chance just when I got at the end of the LOOOONG line of cars waiting for a turn. Apparently, they ran out of fuel in the tanks and werent gonna have any more delivered, their was already several truck loads delivered durring the $2.99 sale. First time in my life I ever seen an almost 1/4 mile line of auto's waiting for gas!

[islandmkl]

1. welcome to 1974 people!!

[CRF450]

2. Even though I can still very well afford the fuel, it seems I may experience that time.

[uppityperson]

3. Lines for 3 buck gas, incredible.

[CRF450]

5. The sight of it took me by surprise

I was sitting their thinkin "man this take probably 30 minutes just to get to the pump, screw this".

[Ilsa]

11. Yep, if you need 20 gallons, you save over $10. That's significant for most people. nt

[uppityperson]

13. And 2 yrs ago no way would anyone have been in line for 3 dollar gas.

That is what I find incredible. NOT that people are in lines, but that $3 is a bargain.

[Clovis Sangrail]

4. I was a little kid in the 70's

and I remember the lines well.
I cruised up and down them selling donuts and newspapers. :evilgrin:

[carpetbagger]

6. I sold coffee.

You can buy a lot of baseball cards with coffee money, more than collecting glass bottles from construction sites.

[TexasProgresive]

7. I remember gas wars

Around 1967 2 stations in Houston got into a gas pricing war that ended with one at $0.12 and the other at $0.11. Those were the days, my friend.

[Art_from_Ark]

8. I remember a gas war around that time in Arkansas

My grandmother had just filled up for about a 25 cents a gallon at her usual station, and a little ways down the road she about had a fit when she saw a gas wars sign at a competing station announcing 19 cents a gallon gas. Her 15-gallon tank X 6 cents = 90 cents she could have saved. In kid terms, that would have been enough for 9 candy bars, or 9 bottles of pop, or 9 ice creams, or any combination thereof.

[SmellsLikeDeanSpirit]

9. Where do you live that gas would be $2.99?

I live in Arkansas and its about $3.45

[CRF450]

12. Its like $3.50 at every gas station here now...

It was some sort of big discount gas givaway or whatever, I dont know the details in it, nor how Farm Fresh was able to sell it 50 cents cheaper than average.

[Ilsa]

10. Young'un! I was a teenager in the

1970's. Most of the long lines were in the big cities, but even in small towns like ours, they could run out of gas. They usually just limited how much each of us could buy at one time.