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tazkcmo Donating Member (668 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 04:48 PM
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15. Then, yes.
In terms of 1970's dollars, it was a lot. 75 bucks a week wasn't even poverty level then. But that crisis is much different than this one in many ways. Even our responses to it. This didn't happen over night. Yet as we watched prices and consumption continue to rise, we bought more and more SUV's, mini-vans, etc. In the 70's you saw the birth of the high mileage small car makers. (Honda, Toyota, Datsun now Nissan) President Carter instituted national energy conservation guidelines. That's 72 degrees to cool and 68 to heat. A lot of things are different about these two crisis. And yes, it cost a lot.
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  -How much did gas cost in the late 70s? MalibuChloe  Aug-31-05 03:07 PM   #0 
  - I remember it hitting $1.20 a gallon  noonwitch   Aug-31-05 03:10 PM   #1 
  - no it did not cost a lot  CountAllVotes   Aug-31-05 03:11 PM   #2 
  - then why is this happening????  MalibuChloe   Aug-31-05 03:14 PM   #5 
  - I saw your name and did a doubletake...  Squatch   Aug-31-05 03:11 PM   #3 
  - oh..haaa  MalibuChloe   Aug-31-05 03:16 PM   #6 
  - It was actually more in the early 70s  no name no slogan   Aug-31-05 03:12 PM   #4 
  - I remember it being 1973 as well.  flamingyouth   Aug-31-05 03:18 PM   #7 
  - Oh, I LOVE those cars!  no name no slogan   Aug-31-05 03:24 PM   #10 
  - I remember the lines in the early 70s  johnnie   Aug-31-05 03:22 PM   #8 
  - Yes.  igil   Aug-31-05 03:22 PM   #9 
  - Here is an interesting article about gas prices/inflation adjusted  nytemare   Aug-31-05 03:27 PM   #11 
  - Ah, the "good old days"  no name no slogan   Aug-31-05 03:31 PM   #12 
     - Yep, so this means gas prices are the highest ever.  nytemare   Aug-31-05 04:12 PM   #13 
        - Oh for sure!  tazkcmo   Aug-31-05 04:51 PM   #16 
  - Compared to today's value of the Dollar prices from the '70s appear less  Left_Winger   Aug-31-05 04:37 PM   #14 
  - Exactly!  tazkcmo   Aug-31-05 04:54 PM   #17 
  - Same here  Left_Winger   Aug-31-05 04:59 PM   #20 
  - 50 cents per gallon during the Carter years, 76-7  tigereye   Aug-31-05 04:55 PM   #18 
     - With my VW Beetle, I usually by-passed most of the lines  Left_Winger   Aug-31-05 05:02 PM   #21 
        - yeah my dad had a Beetle, too  tigereye   Aug-31-05 05:16 PM   #22 
           - I loved my Beetle (a '71 model)  Left_Winger   Aug-31-05 05:19 PM   #23 
              - 72 was ours I think  tigereye   Aug-31-05 10:59 PM   #24 
  - Then, yes.  tazkcmo   Aug-31-05 04:48 PM   #15 
  - but prior to the mid 70s, people had giant boato-cars, remember?  tigereye   Aug-31-05 04:56 PM   #19 
  - $.89 California 1979  swag   Aug-31-05 11:05 PM   #25 
  - 45 cents a gallon for Ethyl in 75-76.  BiggJawn   Aug-31-05 11:33 PM   #26 
  - About a buck.  Bobby_Miller   Aug-31-05 11:44 PM   #27 
 

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