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Rhiannon12866

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2. Thanks for the recollection! It really has gone way up in recent years.

Reply to chillfactor (Reply #1)

Mon Aug 27, 2018, 02:07 AM

Aug 2018

When I was in college in the mid '70s, my cousin gave me a ride back to school. I remember that we stopped on the Thruway for gas and it was 47-cents! And my cousin said that was way too much, that we'd have to stop elsewhere!

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What a gallon of gas cost the year you were born [View all] Rhiannon12866 Aug 2018 OP

I was born in 1941.... chillfactor Aug 2018 #1

Thanks for the recollection! It really has gone way up in recent years. Rhiannon12866 Aug 2018 #2

For anyone else unwilling to click thru 89 slides: jxla Aug 2018 #3

I did change this post to that article, but changed it back when I noticed there wasn't a photo Rhiannon12866 Aug 2018 #4

1940 OxQQme Aug 2018 #5