Hey Tom, I show my age when I say I used to buy gas for 24c a gallon, when
I started driving in 1967. I used to work gas stations in high school and
college. At Texaco, I worked my butt off cleaning windshields, checking
oil, water and tires, etc. (mandatory for every customer). The perk was
getting to use the lift to do lube jobs and other maintenance on my cars
every few weeks, as sole attendant on some shifts! Sigh...
BTW, we're getting gouged in SF, prices are still way above $1/gallon, more
like $1.20. But the lower prices make it easier to use up a tank every
month on the roadster, because of that short shelf life nowadays for the
"new" gas.
Have you entered your EV in an autoX meet yet? I'd love to see that!
Fred - So.SF
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> Subject: Re: Ugly?
> Author: walter@omni.sps.mot.com (Thomas Walter)
> Date: 2/22/99 3:05 PM
>
> No kidding.
>
> Sigh, gas was about 50c a gallon when I started driving. $5.00
> to fill up the 510, and it lasted two weeks (1974).
>
> Just took delivery of some batteries for the Electric Vehicle Truck.
> $5,000 worth of batteries. Should be more than good enough
> for a 40 mile range, and 800 cycles. My "per gallon" cost
> will be around $0.36/gallon. Not too bad. No fumes, either. ;-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tom
>
>
>>What's wrong,
>> is what one of those "special" things can do to a roadster and its
>>owner. There oughta be a law! Bought gas for .89 a gallon, for the
>>first time in my life. It was more than that when I started driving 12
>>years ago. Creepy, if you ask me, but then, you didn't....
>>Toby
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