I was looking through some old "stuff" and found a newspaper
clipping from the St. Joseph News Press & Gazette, dated 1958 ...
"Independant service stations on the Belt Highway became
involved in a Gas War. Premium grade gasoline, which was selling at
28.9 cents per gallon, was down to 22.9 and regular grade gasoline
was 7 cents below the normal 26.9 to 19.9"
Ah, well, those days seem like a whole different world. One
wonders what would happen if everyone stopped buying gasoline from
the "Big" stations, like Shell, Chevron, Mobil, probably nothing,
but at almost $3/gal it seems like we are completely powerless ...
yeah ... I know you folks in the UK spend double that, but it still
hurts ...
Rant mode off ...
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Bill Pugh
1957 TR3 TS16765L
aka
Casper
1971 TR6 CC59179L
aka
Rosey
Wallace, CA
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