Now, I remember the gas rationing days of the late Seventies under Carter. Gas was at about $.77 per gallon.

I remember people in the long lines that stretched down the block from the service station near my house bitching about prices having gone over $1.00/gallon and heading toward $1.20.

I was unemployed at the time, and took to wandering up and down the lines every morning, selling coffee and day-old doughnuts to the waiting motorists.

Of course, I also remember that the minimum wage back then was $2.90/hr, and you could get a nice 1-bedroom apartment in the Valley for around $200-$250 a month.

And I try to remember that my friends in Europe and the UK are currently paying $8-9/gallon, too.

(Though if I had their ‘free’ health care, I could afford to pay more for gas, too…)

Glad to see your living situation has been settled. As for the price of gas during the rationing days I vaguely remember driving around my hometown with my dad as he searched for a station that was still under a dollar a gallon.

The last flickr friend I chatted with reminded me that just east of London they are paying close to $10/gal right now. He reminded me as well that an suv like the Explorer or Grand Cherokee has an annual road use tax of 1,800. Things are bleak everywhere when it comes to fuel prices.

Google has other ways to taunt you…

Hey look, it’s google maps!