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  • KenCW, on 03/05/2008, -4/+547If i were the pilot, i woulda tried fueling up there too.
    • Sagags, on 03/05/2008, -105/+3Great Submission Oh My God: Look At Those Gas Prices! [PICS] Is.
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      • jemka, on 03/05/2008, -1/+15What the hell is going on here?
        • Sagags, on 03/05/2008, -11/+25I find What the hell is going on here? to be a very touchy subject

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      • nreynolds, on 03/05/2008, -3/+10sagags is old, I blocked him a long time ago, but i forget why... I'm pretty sure he does real comments too...
        • cyrix, on 03/05/2008, -2/+15He's actually kind of entertaining. :P
        • Fxer, on 03/05/2008, -1/+3Absolutely. All comments after the first made me chuckle.
        • Zecchetti, on 03/05/2008, -1/+2If you've blocked him, how comes you can see his comment?
        • TheTaoOfBill, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1This is going to be a fad now isn't it? :(
      • hello2usir, on 03/05/2008, -2/+15You, {SUBJECT NAME HERE}, must be the pride of {SUBJECT HOMETOWN HERE}
      • Pissoff, on 03/05/2008, -0/+2Hookers
    • Ajajadude, on 03/05/2008, -0/+17Think that's something? Watch Die Hard. The part where the cop is leaving the gas station after buying his Twinkies and looks back at the building he's about to head off to makes me cry...those prices are so low, and it's in LA!
    • zerock, on 03/05/2008, -0/+2that's just hilarious. The prices were worth it.
    • jozb, on 03/05/2008, -6/+1Take a look at the graph here, this was that long ago. http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/08/energy-anniver ...
    • jozb, on 03/05/2008, -2/+3Why does the link get cut off, let me try again http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/08/energy-anniver ...
      • paulmike3, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1What's your point? Prices on everything go up. http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2007/10/09/infla ...
        • Fxer, on 03/05/2008, -0/+2It's noticeable when the increase in price is higher than the inflation rate (which is extremely low for the US).
          • diggduggjoe, on 03/05/2008, -2/+3Which is BS, Bernake can say with a straight face that the "core" inflation rate is low. That is everything minus food and energy!

            WTF?!

            Inflation is part of the oil increase. Oil vs gold is much different than oil vs $. The Fed is full of *****.
    • hansk, on 03/05/2008, -5/+1pilots arnt responsible for filling up thats dispatch's job !
    • mexiguese, on 03/05/2008, -2/+2Dude...Chevron doesn't have jet fuel, gosh! haha I'm sad...
  • HomelessDepot, on 03/05/2008, -3/+88Hah, I think this one's funnier than most of the others I've seen, and a bit smarter too.
  • will2000, on 03/05/2008, -6/+133funny thing is, that actually is what i noticed first...
    • daftie, on 03/05/2008, -0/+50I see airplanes parked at the local Shell all the time too... makes the lines so loooong.
      • Jesusridesabike, on 03/05/2008, -7/+1A-E-R-Oplane
        • AntzNZ, on 03/05/2008, -0/+3"Fixed-wing aircraft are called airplanes in North America (the U.S. and Canada), and aeroplanes in Commonwealth countries and Ireland (excluding Canada)."
          Wikipedia.
    • blueandgreen24, on 03/05/2008, -3/+3Me too dude....I'm embarrassed
    • ChngeGovernment, on 03/05/2008, -1/+2Hopefully someday we will see prices like this again but I am not holding my breath. $1.59 x 2 = 3.18 and that's still not even what I pay for high grade in California. I believe I payed $3.60 last time I filled up.
      • EvilCan, on 03/05/2008, -2/+5Why do you pay for high grade?
        • Space_Balls, on 03/05/2008, -5/+3I payed $8,11 yesterday.... :/
        • barnett25, on 03/05/2008, -0/+4Some cars (usually with higher than 10-1 compression ratios) require premium gas to prevent damaging detonation in the cylinder.
          • ChngeGovernment, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1Bingo. I drive a Lexus SC300.
          • EvilCan, on 03/06/2008, -0/+1Hmm..I always thought the different grades of gas were a scam.
      • ukblacknight, on 03/05/2008, -3/+3Wait a sec, are you saying you filled your entire car with $3.60? And you're complaining?? I must be missing something here. Diesel in the UK is around £1.09 ($2.18) PER LITRE. Petrol is usually a couple of pence cheaper, usually costs my girlfriend around £30 to £35 ($60-$75) to fill her 1.0 litre car up.
        • SpaceMonkeyZero, on 03/05/2008, -0/+3He's talking "per gallon"
          • ukblacknight, on 03/05/2008, -0/+2That's probably what I was missing - nobody measures fuel prices in gallons here.
          • ChngeGovernment, on 03/05/2008, -0/+2Sorry if I was unclear, I did mean per gallon. Crazy Americans, sorry.

            I have sympathy for the Europeans who pay more for less gasoline.
    • 1town, on 03/05/2008, -1/+4And that didn't have anything to do with the fact that the retard OP put the punchline in the headline?
      • nickmv, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1word.....that was my first thought in response to him. You must be a genius if you first noticed that which was already mentioned to you before you clicked it....
      • Fxer, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1Your subconscious mind can screw with you. I also noticed that first.
    • mistergoomba, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1i notice that kind of stuff in older movies. i was watching the original terminator the other day where gas was like 79 cents. the 80's ruled.
    • robbob, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1
      Look at any picture. Your brain always moves toward text to focus on first.
    • JustAnthrDigger, on 03/05/2008, -1/+0That's because the title was talking about the gas prices :-)
  • raulbot, on 03/05/2008, -5/+402nothing to see here folks, nothing to....holy ***** is that 1.59!!!!
    • noahgelman, on 03/05/2008, -23/+4Comment of the year
    • RiMac, on 03/05/2008, -0/+10And I'm assuming this is next to an airport! That's nuts!
      • FloMonster, on 03/05/2008, -0/+6Bob Hope Airport (known as Burbank Airport) in Burbank, CA. Southwest Flight 1455 overran the runway on March 5, 2000.
    • ink123, on 03/05/2008, -1/+0i m too.
    • carve, on 03/05/2008, -0/+17Yeah...and I'll bet people were bitching about the expensive gas at the time, too.
    • ClevelandBrown, on 03/05/2008, -0/+4everybody crowd around, come on don't be shy
  • redditcopypaste, on 03/05/2008, -35/+13http://www.google.com.au/search?q=1.50+aud+per+lit ...
    God I love Google Calculator.
    I've paying about $USD 5.30 per gallon, and thats generally considered pretty cheap on a global scale. so quit yer whinging America.
    • leahcim, on 03/05/2008, -2/+16How much of the price you pay goes to Taxes?
      • Grimdotdotdot, on 03/05/2008, -0/+7Um... What difference does that make?
        In the UK we pay approx. $8 a gallon, but then this country hate people that drive.
        • Fxer, on 03/05/2008, -1/+4What happened to the stereotyped Englishman with good articulation?
    • ColorBlind, on 03/05/2008, -2/+2And could you please tell me how many miles you drive on any given day, month, year?

      I average around 40 miles a day - 20,000 a year....when you drive as much as we do - you can tell us to stop whining. It also effects our logistic system, which in turn screws us everywhere.
      • NathanielJ, on 03/05/2008, -0/+4Lots of people drive that much every day, I don't see why you would assume he doesn't just because he's from another country.

        I'm Canadian and spend almost $4.50 US per US gallon and drive well over 40 miles per day. Do I get to tell you to stop whining then? I doubt it affects your "logistic system" more than it does ours.
        • ColorBlind, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1So I assume you are fine with paying that much for your fuel simply because someone overseas has deep pockets?
  • Greatn3ss, on 03/05/2008, -24/+3471. go on 4chan
    2. repost motivational posters on digg
    3. ???
    4. profit.
    • thrikulam, on 03/05/2008, -8/+925. post this same exact list
      6. Ò_Ó
      7. more profit.
    • ElBeh, on 03/05/2008, -2/+28!
    • ForestRangerBen, on 03/05/2008, -12/+2epic winnnn
    • itzmattu, on 03/05/2008, -13/+1Rule 1 + Rule 2 = You just lost the game.
    • Picaroon, on 03/05/2008, -10/+21That gas station has prices to which few other stations can hold a candle. Jacking up prices is re
      • Hollic, on 03/05/2008, -0/+8I see what you did there.
      • EvilJelloMan, on 03/05/2008, -1/+9To those digging picaroon down: learn about candlejack, then you wi
    • gamche, on 03/05/2008, -5/+8You're just jealous that you didn't think of it first.
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    • EBFoxbat, on 03/05/2008, -6/+1I challenge you to explain the origin of that post. And don't give me "it's from slashdot" explain it.
    • mGARANDEUR1, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1It sure is an easy way to get an image on the front page.
    • lovecss, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1Works for me!
    • jpbitzer, on 03/05/2008, -3/+1While we're going down that road... i think that pilot is a pretty cool guy. eh refills his planes and doesn't afraid of anything.
    • Gutterpunk, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1Hey if it prevent me from viewing all the other unfunny and ridiculous crap from 4chan, I'm all for it.
    • bonds, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1o lawd!
    • recruz, on 03/05/2008, -6/+1where's the profit? if by profit, you mean by you wanting to be a digg poster that gets his links on the front page, then you need a life ...
    • tcsucks, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1lol @ jj.am
    • Anarchon, on 03/05/2008, -1/+2edit-retract
    • Trigonometron, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1It's called being a middle man.
  • mtg1287, on 03/05/2008, -1/+165God, I remember thinking that was outrageous
    • mrASSMAN, on 03/05/2008, -0/+10Sigh.. the good ol' days.. :(
      • rnawky, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1Lets see the last time gas was that cheap was around 2003 which is 5 years ago and your profile says your 18 which would make you 13 which means you weren't driving, let alone paying for gas. The phrase "the gold ol' days" should only be used when you were actually effected by the change. In this case, you weren't.
        • highstriker, on 03/05/2008, -0/+2What do you mean he's not effected? I'm 19, and maybe I never paid for gas back when it was that cheap, but I sure pay for it now. Every time I go to the gas station I wish gas was as cheap as it was when I was younger. My wallet feels the same way.
    • tahcoboy, on 03/05/2008, -0/+5I remember in 6th grade when I thought "I think its safe to worry when it will go past $1.24" ..... :/
      • daRoach, on 03/05/2008, -0/+15Why were you thinking about gas prices when you were in the 6th grade?
      • ophello, on 03/05/2008, -0/+4Some of us had lawn-mowing jobs
        • remccain, on 03/05/2008, -0/+3'zactly. I would sometimes bring home $100 a day mowing yards when I was a kid - and when gas hit $0.78 a gallon I was pissed. Heh. The good old days, when I would earn more in a day then my father ... wait, I still do... :( that's depressing.
      • DephexTwin, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1I have no idea how old you are... so was that 5, 10, 20 years ago??
    • zmjone2992, on 03/05/2008, -0/+320 bucks to fill my tank wtf! now it is 35+
      • Rowan187, on 03/05/2008, -0/+2mine was $20... now its like.. $55, Alaska's prices are baaaaaaaaad
        • remccain, on 03/05/2008, -0/+5Shoulda invested in a refinery instead of a pipeline ;)
        • alz0rz, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1luuul alaska
        • DephexTwin, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1The guys in charge up there must have really blown it if your gas prices are bad.
    • moonshn, on 03/05/2008, -0/+2when i got my license gas could be had for less that $0.70. I feel old.

      and zmojone, try driving a 2500 with a 35 gallon tank... ouch, over $100 every time.
    • marillion, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1Me too. I'm still driving my 9 year old car. When it was new, I used to get Diesel at $0.89US per gallon and I would get 44 miles per gallon. That's over 500 miles per tank for under $10.00. Today, I still get 44 miles per gallon and I pay $3.68 per gallon.
    • Bobo44, on 03/05/2008, -0/+4Gas prices - Outrageous..
      Planes landing in Suburban development - Normal..
  • AriaStar, on 03/05/2008, -3/+46Remember when it hit a buck fifty and we were all outraged? How the hell could gas be a buck fifty?! And now finding it under $3 (Silicon Valley/Bay Area here) just doesn't happen.
    • KIERANMULLEN, on 03/05/2008, -2/+1it is $3.10 in portland oregon... you would think gas could come from alaska?
    • AriaStar, on 03/05/2008, -1/+1@ the two above:

      I don't keep track of gas prices in other areas, so put that in in case someone happens to be where gas is still $2.93 or something.
      • itchyfeet, on 03/05/2008, -3/+1It costs at least twice as much in the rest of the civilised world - get used to it you bunch of ***** pussies.
        • Memitim, on 03/05/2008, -0/+2They want to base their entire economies on tax money then that's their business. We've got plenty enough socialism mixed in with our capitalism already, thanks.
        • Ishiguro, on 03/05/2008, -2/+1We are the civilized world. Sorry, you aren't.
    • AmericansRevolt, on 03/05/2008, -0/+3Hell yeah i remember! i remember thinking- how can they raise a gallon of gas by THREE CENTS in one day? thats MILLIONS of cars out there burning google-amounts of gas.

      Now they swing gas THIRTY cents in a day without battin an eye. and this is all in a 6 year period. went from an easy to find $1 a gallon to $3.50 in 6 years. Inflation? if it is, were all *****
    • gobleepyourself, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1Americans could have off-shore rigs working around the clock off California, Oregon & Washington, along with extra drilling in Alaska. But, they can blame the environmentalists for blocking it. As for gas prices, what are ya gonna do? Its an industry that's got us all by the balls-period. Our march into Iraq didn't benefit anybody except oil companies. They are experiencing record profits, and continue to screw us over.
  • otis12, on 03/05/2008, -6/+97It sucks to be European, having to pay about 1.40 Euros a liter, or $8.00 a gallon.
    • MCCULLAH, on 03/05/2008, -16/+3yea but you have those mini cars that are socially unacceptable and....you cant buy it anywhere
      • tpzoso, on 03/05/2008, -6/+3thats like 1.2% of the population.

        btw did you know the 43.8% of all statistics are made up?
      • Grimdotdotdot, on 03/05/2008, -0/+6Mini cars? Try telling that to my 1990 Range Rover classic and it's wallet-raping 10MPG - that's 66cents per mile, American chums.
        • natterca, on 03/05/2008, -1/+5Wow. A European redneck.
          • Grimdotdotdot, on 03/05/2008, -0/+4Oh yeah, I bet there's plenty of Rednecks driving Range Rovers.
            Also, I wasn't related to my wife before I married her =]
    • 89vision, on 03/05/2008, -1/+37mostly taxes
      • jonnyboy1544, on 03/05/2008, -0/+446 cents per gallon of ours is taxes as well.
    • mrASSMAN, on 03/05/2008, -10/+23It's not really $8, it just appears higher due to the suicidal US dollar (and gas-taxes as noted).
      • otis12, on 03/05/2008, -5/+7$8.00 is the price after applying the exchange rate.
        • mrASSMAN, on 03/05/2008, -0/+19Yes I know.. that's my point. The dollar has dropped so rapidly in relation to the euro that their gas prices will appear to rise in the context of our currency even when they actually aren't paying any more than they did the week before.. I'm not saying their gas isn't more expensive, I'm just saying it's exaggerated a bit due to the circumstances.
        • magicaltrevor, on 03/05/2008, -3/+4MrASSMAN: No, EU/UK prices are rocketing up too. 2 years ago, unleaded was 79p a litre in Britain.It's now about £1.05
          • LFAB, on 03/05/2008, -0/+5That's 32%. We're up 100%+ in the states. So cry me a river of Euros...
          • myak, on 03/05/2008, -1/+2And still, what you're paying after your 100% price increase is waaaaaaaaay less than what we pay in pounds or any other european currency.
          • bagelmaster, on 03/05/2008, -0/+2But most of your high prices are because your governments add extra taxes onto it. Being socialist comes at the price of high taxes, don't cry to us about what government style you chose.
          • myak, on 03/06/2008, -0/+1Or maybe, just maybe, we don't invade other countries under false assumption that they have chemical and/or biological weapons to get oil not at the price of USD but our own soldiers' blood. Just a guess of course. Damn you, socialism!
          • LFAB, on 03/06/2008, -0/+2@Myak: If this is a war for oil, then where's my free oil? Exactly.

            But I agree on one thing: It's an atrocity the way they have spilled our soldiers' blood for this war. They should prosecute the war with full vengeance, or go home. Not have these guys stand on street corners waiting to be blown up by IED's for 4 years. Bomb the place into the stone age, or get the hell out.
    • lukas88, on 03/05/2008, -6/+136Well you should have thought of that before you became european.
    • otis12, on 03/05/2008, -0/+5I am not European, although it wouldn't be a bad thing. I got back from France and noticed how ridiculous gas prices were.
    • TaintDeli, on 03/05/2008, -0/+12Yeah, but you get all kinds of sweet TDI engines!
      • Space_Balls, on 03/05/2008, -1/+2Andv I still prefer my V6 petrol ;) going 130MPH+ doesnt exactly make it a gas saver either ;)
        • Davekcon, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1Audi TDI engines dominate endurance racing because they are so fuel efficient.
    • tugger, on 03/05/2008, -1/+9Thats the downside of living in free country..

      :-)
    • Scrappy1850, on 03/05/2008, -2/+2that and the stupid haircuts
    • kevcool, on 03/05/2008, -9/+1I suspect you were intentionally inflating the exchange rate by 400 percent to demonstrate a point but ... 1.4 Euros is really 2.14 Dollars as of this posting.
      • HiKevinRose, on 03/05/2008, -1/+6A liter < a gallon. By a lot.
      • trumsey2005, on 03/05/2008, -0/+71 US gallon = 3.78541178 liters
      • ischuros, on 03/05/2008, -1/+6I suspect you were intentionally trying to make yourself look good by being 'intelligent' but... 1 average digg user is really a lot smarter than you as of this posting.
        • trumsey2005, on 03/13/2008, -0/+1I was just stating a fact dickweed
    • one1plus1one, on 03/05/2008, -1/+10Not to stereotype or anything, but the European chicks seem to be more into kinky sex (including 3-ways). It's worth paying higher fuel prices for the trade off. Plus the babes over there have really hot sounding accents.

      So if you're in Europe the solution is simple: Just drive less and ---- more.
    • ukblacknight, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1Diesel at the Tesco down the road is £1.11 per litre, that's over $2 a litre - on the flip side our cars are more fuel efficient.
  • MCCULLAH, on 03/05/2008, -17/+6i see what you did there....
  • Barnolde, on 03/05/2008, -2/+73I remember like 6 years ago driving south, we stopped in SC or GA for gas and it was 89 cents. I recently told my friends about this who refused to believe it. ***** you $3+ gas!
    • TheKrillr, on 03/05/2008, -1/+12wait -- 6 years ago? $0.89?! My god man! I was paying $2.20/gln then!
      • tpzoso, on 03/05/2008, -0/+4where
        • TheKrillr, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1seattle, wa
          • Barnolde, on 03/05/2008, -0/+2The more I think about it, the more "like 6" = 10-12. Regardless, it was just weird seeing multiple gas stations for under $1.
          • DephexTwin, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1That changes everything. If we are talking 10 years ago, back in 1998, the gas near Little Rock was regularly below that price, and in one gas station I saw it for 67¢. If we go back to 12 years, that was when I first got my license and in the Chicago suburbs the gas on average was just barely over a dollar, maybe $1.05. A lot happened in that 6 year discrepancy, including 9/11!
      • mrASSMAN, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1Prices for the past 15 years: http://www.eia.doe.gov/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publ ...

        You weren't paying $2.20, and Barnolde likely paid .89 during '98 or '99(9-10 years ago).. the US averaged below .90 for a few months at the beginning of '99. It rose a bit from '99 to 2002, then it completely exploded in 2003 when the Iraq war began.
      • ThreeDee912, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1I do remember gas being around 0.95 for a few weeks after 9/11. I live in New Jersey. I visit New York often, and the price of gas there was A LOT higher. I guess it depends on where you live.
    • Alphabet, on 03/05/2008, -0/+5@thekrillr

      if it's near the gulf, it's much cheaper since a lot of the oil drilling rigs are there. My sis lives in Texas, and used to pay ~90cents a gallon 7 years ago.
      • unreg, on 03/05/2008, -0/+0It's not the drilling rigs, it's the refinery and transportation costs. Local taxation and whether the station needs to complete with the one across the stret.
    • onedingo, on 03/05/2008, -0/+5I paid about $0.79 / gallon around New Year's 1999.
      Proof here:
      http://www.dnr.mo.gov/energy/transportation/gasoli ...

      No one I know remembers this...
      • Ishiguro, on 03/05/2008, -0/+2onedingo, I remember it. I was driving home from my first semester of college, and I bought the good stuff b/c it was $.99/gallon.
      • brentinkc, on 03/05/2008, -0/+2Totally. I started driving just about 9 years ago and gas was 89 cents/gallon in Kansas City.
    • ledguitar, on 03/05/2008, -0/+4Yeah the cheapest I remember ever seeing was 89 cents/gallon (southern California). I don't remember the exact year, but I wish the gas prices were still the same.
    • lyrica42, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1We were paying .99 cents per gallon just over into Arizona from the California border at around that time too. God I miss that.
    • NaziHatinChimp, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1I have been told we have the cheapest gas here in south carolina. Which is scary because we are paying aroun $3 a gallon right now. Truth be told I don't even look anymore because it depresses me and there is nothing I can do about changing it.
      • moonshn, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1yeah, you do, I always thought it was cheap in GA until i visited ya'll
  • noahgelman, on 03/05/2008, -10/+5Whoever makes these up are geniuses
  • thatsmyaibo, on 03/05/2008, -2/+30I wish. It's almost $4/gallon here.
    • hobbitsareneat, on 03/05/2008, -0/+7In Seattle its 3.50$ a gallon.
      • MyDiggIsBig, on 03/05/2008, -0/+5Here in santa barbara its $4.09. they basically get on their knees and have us suck their *****. they own us.
        • unreg, on 03/05/2008, -0/+2They get on their knees? What, are you laying down?
    • doronster195, on 03/05/2008, -0/+8In the Bay Area, CA it's around 3.59 for Regular. I see us breaking $4 in the near future.
      • MsAntiSunshine, on 03/05/2008, -0/+3Bush's response to you: "Oh really? That's interesting. I didn't know that..."
    • Parker133t, on 03/05/2008, -1/+13.69 NY
    • bagelmaster, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1*Only* $3.15 here in central PA. Yay?
    • Trick07, on 03/05/2008, -0/+3Well, back when this happened in 2000 we most of Los Angeles was paying about $1.60 for gas. How much did you pay back when this actually happened?
    • ganlet, on 03/06/2008, -0/+1Went to the gas station this morning. Regular was 3.47 and I went to one of the cheapest gas stations (San Diego)
    • LETHARGICpirate, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1$3.01 in Detroit suburb, which is weird since MI usually has higher gas prices.
  • ForestRangerBen, on 03/05/2008, -12/+4Yup it does suck to be European
    • cudnthinkovasn, on 03/05/2008, -4/+8i disagree
      • tpzoso, on 03/05/2008, -2/+3How would you know? You can only be one or the other, comparatively speaking it would be impossible to find which would bring higher pleasure of life to an individual citizen.
      • ForestRangerBen, on 03/12/2008, -0/+0I disagree that you disagree
    • mGARANDEUR1, on 03/05/2008, -1/+1I agree.
  • 9bpm9, on 03/05/2008, -8/+210 cent price increase per level? Since when?
    • elmetald00d, on 03/05/2008, -0/+7chevron is always 10 cent per level increase.
    • mrASSMAN, on 03/05/2008, -0/+6Most stations are..
      • emmaviolet, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1I've seen many that are 20 or 30 cents...
    • kahrytan, on 03/05/2008, -0/+3Since Costco started selling gas... really.
  • NightVortez, on 03/05/2008, -2/+25Incidentally the prices have stayed about the same in gold.
  • KaiSe7eN, on 03/05/2008, -2/+197Back when life was good, and I was still watchin Ahhh! Real Monsters or The Adventures of Pete and Pete wth a side of Double Dare 2000 and an after school dose of Are You Afraid of The Dark.
    • NOFXY, on 03/05/2008, -0/+36can i have some crystals so i can go back in time?
    • slayerab, on 03/05/2008, -16/+1Too bad I was born in 1989 instead of 1989. The 90's would have been an awesome time to have been a college student, except we wouldn't have C2D macbooks...
    • Destinatus, on 03/05/2008, -0/+12and we still don't...1989 instead of 1989? judging by digg's typical user base I'm guessing you meant 1999
      • daRoach, on 03/05/2008, -2/+2And even then he's still wrong. Being born in 1989 means likely not graduating until 2009. He still would not have been in college in the '90s.
      • jozb, on 03/05/2008, -0/+4He probably means 1979.
    • KingGorilla, on 03/05/2008, -0/+9God damn we were watching tv when we could've been stocking up on gas! Foolish child self! You should have seen this coming!
    • DeadFox1, on 03/05/2008, -0/+3Double Dare 2000 !! Ahh... the green slime.....
    • physco827, on 03/05/2008, -0/+17lets not forget rocko's modern life now. all those shows were phenomenal but i do believe that rocko should be in that bunch. oh and watching that while eating the best snack ever, dunkaroos.
    • phantom_mullet, on 03/05/2008, -0/+4if i could go back in time, i'd get some Crystal Pepsi
    • MsAntiSunshine, on 03/05/2008, -0/+3I still watch AHhh! Real Monsters!, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, and Are You Afraid of the dark. I also second physco827.
  • 3amboo, on 03/05/2008, -8/+4those were the days when big mac value meals were cheaper too. =[
  • CameronConnor, on 03/05/2008, -7/+1Gas Sucks...Lets party
  • Sagags, on 03/05/2008, -3/+22I think some of you are missing the point
  • dotuplink, on 03/05/2008, -2/+38I was headed to frys electronics (This crash was right next to it), I saw the aftermath of the crash about 30 mins after it happened. Nobody died, and the person in that car and her child were fine.
  • SemiSarcastic, on 03/05/2008, -3/+59"Yeah, ever since we lowered our prices to 1.59 per gallon we've gotten really go- HOLY *****!!!"
  • BobbyMC, on 07/21/2008, -1/+27I remember a station here selling for 70 cents a gallon at some point around 1999. Back then the only alterations in price were abrupt drops.
    • raada, on 03/05/2008, -1/+3I wonder what happened after that.... Thanks Bush for ruining this country. Mission accomplished.
    • lnxfi, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1I remember when i used to go to college it was about that price. It cost me $7.70 to travel there and back. Now that same trip would cost me over $30. Sad...
  • TheTaint, on 03/05/2008, -25/+7I doubt the pilot of the airline actually stopped to pump gas at a public gas station. Seriously guys, let's be serious about this.
  • Akraz, on 03/05/2008, -4/+23its $1.06/litre here in Canada....
    • Haz63, on 03/05/2008, -0/+11in Australia it's about $1.45
      • notoneofus, on 03/05/2008, -0/+3It's about the same in Japan.
      • 1randomguy08, on 03/05/2008, -0/+3I live in Merrylands, Sydney and on side of my suburb it was like $1.46 at Caltex and about 2kms at the Quik it was $1.32 Go figure. Back 8-10 years ago it was around $0.60/litre.
    • Scheissen, on 03/05/2008, -12/+1Who cares.
      • brownspank, on 03/05/2008, -0/+18Really? How kind and considerate of Who.
    • digggggggggg, on 03/05/2008, -0/+10That's... a bit more expensive than here in the US. 3.6 liters fit in a gallon.
      • lornefs, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1Actually a US gallon = 3.785411784 liters in Canada.
        So we are paying about $4.01 per gallon (mostly tax).
    • Godlesswanderer, on 03/05/2008, -0/+4It's about £1.07 per litre here in the UK.
      • dsmx, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1Wow it's only £1.01 in the blackpool area.
      • ukblacknight, on 03/05/2008, -0/+2Diesel is £1.11 here in Carmarthen
    • potisreallygood, on 03/05/2008, -0/+6How much is a liter of cola?
      • cVioletteRun, on 03/05/2008, -0/+4About the same as a large farva.
    • eyefork, on 03/05/2008, -0/+2[States current gas prices where I live]
    • one1plus1one, on 03/05/2008, -2/+4On Mars its $56632383614132398747 per liter today. Slightly higher than yesterday but not as bad as we expected.
      • petard, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1ahhh I remember the good old days when it was $28316191807066199373.50
    • bardo77n, on 03/05/2008, -5/+1Can ya put that in 'merican numbers? I can't figure yer fancy pants sissy "litres."
    • Daiken, on 03/05/2008, -0/+41 US gallon = 3.78541178 litres
      Canadian dollars are roughly equivalent to US.
      about $4/gallon in Canada
    • tyler2k, on 03/05/2008, -2/+0English system motherf*cker, can you use it !?! - Jules Winnfield
    • qole, on 03/05/2008, -1/+2In Vancouver BC, we're paying about $1.15 / litre, that's about $4.35 per gallon. Must be nice living where you live.
  • Teh_Shiz, on 03/05/2008, -1/+11I remember before the attacks on the World Trade Centers, gas where I lived was around $1.50 or so, and then right after, for a couple months, it dropped to around $1.00, and then just kept climbing up to $3.00 now
  • INDOAZZ, on 03/05/2008, -4/+9When was this, 1989?
    • Cornloaf, on 03/05/2008, -0/+22Actually it was March 5, 2000.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_Fl ...
    • jjmckay, on 03/05/2008, -3/+10Nah, more like 2002 or so. Look at the cars. Those are newer models. In '89 gas was about .99/gallon. We have a failed foreign and monetary policy to thank for our current gas prices. It's not the gas that's gone up, its that the dollar has gone down.
      • thedonisgone, on 03/05/2008, -2/+2OR LIKE MARCH 5, 2000. Read the post above you and maybe you won't look like such a BOOB!
    • lukas88, on 03/05/2008, -0/+10I remember fueling up for 76 cents/gallon in like 1998
      • eviscero, on 03/05/2008, -0/+3I recall .89 per gal in North NJ in 1995.

        ...1.21 in New York suburbs in the same year.
        • jedicurt, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1The day i turned 16, which was in 1998... i filled up my truck for the first time for .59 in Oklahoma
    • quakerorts, on 03/05/2008, -1/+6Before Bush invaded Iraq.
    • SpacePoet, on 03/05/2008, -1/+2I think you owe everyone an apology for your snarky ignorance.
  • moolaismyfriend, on 03/05/2008, -13/+16looks like the last time we had a democrat in office.

    You see what happens when you elect two oil barons to the white house.
    • slayerab, on 03/05/2008, -0/+15Or when India and China starts demanding more cars?
    • tpzoso, on 03/05/2008, -2/+10Before him, gas prices below $1, who was that pres and his party? THis has nothing to do with parties.
    • Mothrog, on 03/05/2008, -3/+8Always nice to see the lack of intelligence on democrats' part. The prices you see were the result of Asian economies going through a major recession which in turn drastically decreased their demand for oil. It has dick to do with who was in the White House.
      • MadN, on 03/05/2008, -2/+4"It has dick to do with who was in the White House."

        That would be Dick Cheney and Haliburton.
        • Mothrog, on 03/05/2008, -1/+2You retards really never do give up, do you? OPEC pretty well sets the price of oil and gasoline is an openly traded commodity. Guess what? Dick Cheney and Haliburton don't control the price of oil or gasoline, no matter how much you imbeciles want to be butt hurt over those big, bad corporations.
        • groovechamp30, on 03/05/2008, -2/+2When the White house causes massive unrest and fear in OPECs back yard by invading and killing hundreds of thousands of people it affects the price of oil.
          • tpzoso, on 03/24/2008, -0/+1Haha, hundreds of thousands? The total kill count hasn't even broken 90,000, and 95% of those are on the bloody hands of the insurgents blowing themselves up in crowded places. Let us not forget the MILLION CONFIRMED kills on the hands of Saddam.
      • moolaismyfriend, on 03/05/2008, -2/+2It has everything to do with the white house and how the manage global trade *****.
  • NitrousFlare, on 03/05/2008, -0/+2And at Chevron nonetheless! Whoa!
  • sickswaystop, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1i remember when diesel was $.99 cents a gallon in america, regular unleaded was around $1.19 i miss those days though I couldnt drive back then
    • redmaxx, on 03/05/2008, -0/+5Did you go to the Verizon school of math?
      • MyDiggIsBig, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1brilliant. verizon can suck my balls . hate those lying assholes
  • itsbob, on 03/05/2008, -1/+53Photoshopped, Gas couldn't have been that cheap...
    • EBFoxbat, on 03/05/2008, -0/+4::Sigh:: Oil was $26.00 per barrel when Bush took office
      • stilesja, on 03/05/2008, -0/+2The people who own Bush have a strategy similar to the underpants gnomes...

        1) Get dumb oil man elected as president
        2) Profit!!
        3) 2nd Great Depression
    • ray4389, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1Gas has never been lower than the price of an arm and leg.
  • RickyHo, on 03/05/2008, -1/+31Well today after Shell burned me at $3/gal I got a free yellow cloth.... yay?
    • rbond, on 03/05/2008, -0/+5That isn't just a free cloth, it is a "collectible." Doesn't it make you want to collect them all?
  • digginaround, on 03/05/2008, -1/+23That's nothing...if you watch Die Hard...no, when you watch Die Hard, there's a bit where you can see that gas down the way from Nakatomi is something like $0.79 a gallon...I had to pause to absorb it all. At this point, I'm convinced it was a good job on the part of the special effects crew. (Seriously, seventy nine cents? Who'd believe that? Nice try, guys.)
    • nrose101, on 03/05/2008, -2/+2um. If you guys actually where older than 30 you would know that was the gas price in the 80s.
      • digginaround, on 03/06/2008, -0/+0But I'm not. So why should I know that? I was two when that movie came out. I never stood a chance. *Tear*
  • Rizzler, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1God, I remember about 8 years ago thinking... "$.93 a gallon... that's not too bad." At least, I think that was about 8 years ago. With the prices now and the rate at which it's jumped, it may have actually been 20 years or more.
  • kuppoppo, on 03/05/2008, -8/+1Yeah, that was hilarious when that plane hit a van, killing a 6 year old boy riding in it.
  • camino262, on 03/05/2008, -0/+27Gas was .89 a gallon when I started to drive in 1995. I could barely afford to fill up then with my minimum wage job at the auto parts store. I feel sorry for those making minimum wage today, that is why no matter what restaurant I go to I always tip at least whatever the price of a gallon of gas is, even If my bill is $5.
    • MyDiggIsBig, on 03/05/2008, -2/+4waiters should get tipped in food. thats right, i meant what i said. digg me down you bastards
  • weezer17, on 03/05/2008, -4/+1I remember when this happened, it was at Midway airport in Chicago. Pretty ***** up situation that the plane tried to land in the horrible conditions that night.
    • rspeed, on 03/05/2008, -0/+2I don't think so, that was Southwest Airlines Flight 1248. That was a newer jet than you see in this photo, plus it didn't end up next to a gas station (not to mention that gas in Chicago in late 2005 would have been much more expensive).

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Southwest_Airli ...
    • phauwn, on 03/05/2008, -0/+2I'm pretty sure this is at Burbank Airport:
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_Fl ...
      "On March 5, 2000 at 1811 Pacific Standard Time Southwest Flight 1455, a Boeing 737-3T5, overran the end of the runway while landing at Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport. It crashed through a metal blast wall and then through the airport perimeter wall and came to rest on Hollywood Way, a four-lane city street, near a gas station."
      I was living nearby and drove over with a couple friends to see it.... we couldn't get that close, but it was in fact a Chevron station.
    • av8eire, on 03/06/2008, -0/+1It was Burbank. There's a Chevron station right of the east end of runway 8. They came in too high and too fast and landed halfway down a very short runway, went through the barricade and ended up at the Chevron station. If it were Midway, there would be a couple of inches of snow as that accident was directly related to poor braking in a snowstorm in Chicago.

      And, no, that's not snow on the ground, it's fire retardant foam...
  • UltramegaOK, on 03/05/2008, -4/+24chan will have it's revenge.
  • Driv300mph, on 03/05/2008, -11/+6This is hilarious... because one would think that the airplane would grab the attention, but the person who modified the picture took notice of the gas prices instead of the obvious huge jet that takes up nearly the whole picture.
  • JamesBond, on 03/05/2008, -1/+4Back in the days...
  • kahrytan, on 03/05/2008, -9/+1That image was photoshopped...obviously. and hardly funny.
  • elislider, on 03/05/2008, -1/+16I only just turned 20 and i remember when it was about 90 cents a gallon. cost my mom about $14 to fill up her subaru
    • BIOHazard87, on 03/05/2008, -0/+2thats crazy, practically free
    • Nougat, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1I remember in the summer of '86 when gas stations were having price wars and it got down to $0.649 a gallon here.
  • Mothh, on 03/05/2008, -1/+1mirror: http://www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/flying/assets/fa ...
  • BIOHazard87, on 03/05/2008, -2/+4I live in Las Vegas and its 3.21$ here now :(
    • redmaxx, on 03/05/2008, -0/+10What is with all the people lately putting the dollar symbol after the price. It belongs up front!
      • bizkit00, on 03/05/2008, -1/+1!So does the exclamation point
        • GoatMonkey2112, on 03/05/2008, -0/+2Not in Las Vegas. And if your exclamation point is in front it should be upside down and there should be another one at the end of the sentence.
  • tablelegs, on 03/05/2008, -2/+21Hey everyone, lets pretend that everybody gives a ***** how much we pay for gas wherever we live?
  • rexblade, on 03/05/2008, -2/+12I recently saw a report that Iraq is producing something like 6million gallons a day in oil. Dont rip me cuz im to tired to hunt it down right now, anyways its way more then they used to yet our prices are still crazy they are still struggling (Iraq citizens) and the oil companies are still posting record profits every year. So WTF? Ok ok Dubai is "neat" and everything (halliburtons new headquarters) but its bad enough this ***** war even happened but when is enough enough? We are paying for the war in blood and taxes and getting a trashed dollar to show for it.
  • Trudheim, on 03/05/2008, -0/+2The price at the pumps here, in Farnborough, UK, today - for 95RON Unleaded - is £1.059 *per liter*. Diesel is £1.089 if I remember right. With the GBP/USD exchange rate at 1:1.99, you're looking at approximately US$2.11 *per liter*.

    I am fully expecting to see 95RON unleaded to cost £1.99/l at the pumps in about ten years, maybe in less time than that.
    • EgaoNoGenki, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1$2.11/liter * 3.785 liters to the gallon = (faints before answer is uttered.)
  • MyDiggIsBig, on 03/05/2008, -1/+14$4.09 here in Santa Barbara. I don't know anywhere more expensive than this ***** sucking area
    • MyDiggIsBig, on 03/05/2008, -1/+4in the US that is. damn you SB i hate you soooooo much. man, you dont know how badly i wish my penis was a gas pump so you could be sucking on it. and paying me. well that didn't come out right. hopefully u get my point. whatever, you probably dont. suck it SB
    • EgaoNoGenki, on 03/05/2008, -0/+5I remember when it cost that much in EUROPE!
      We don't mind your imported wine, your Mercedes and other fancy stuff, but PLEASE, keep your gas prices on your side of the pond!
      • tacojohn, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1Ouch- I just paid $3.57 Redwood City this morning and thought that was bad.
      • compulsive1, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1In central PA a gallon of regular 87 octane goes for 3.19 today, but diesel is 4.24! Doesn't make sense to buy a diesel car. Your savings in efficiency go straight to state coffers and you end up spending more money for the vehicle.
    • PhilThePhenom, on 03/05/2008, -0/+2Screw Santa Barbara! I was a broke ass college student up there, not because I didn't have money, but because everything is catered to the elitist ***** snobs that move up there when they're too good for LA.
  • bmh67wa, on 03/05/2008, -0/+19My father owned a gas station when I was a wee tyke back in the early 70's (before the big panic/gas crunch era) and I remember that Regular was 29 cents a gallon and Supreme (there was no unleaded yet) was like 36 cents or so. This was when you got your oil checked, windows washed, air checked in the tires, and someone else pumped for you. Talk about the changing times!
    • tugger, on 03/05/2008, -0/+9In Peru, 2 or 3 guys come and sort the car out for oil, water, empty the ashtray, test the battery and take any rubbish. Its like the 50s, and there's no tipping. The person actually filling the car with gas is usually a college honey...

      I like peru alot.
      • mharber, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1Now you are lucky if Bart, the lowly 3rd shift attendant flashes you his man-boobs...
        • tim710, on 03/06/2008, -0/+2The name Bart has been retired to The Simpsons you'll just confuse people by using it out of context.
    • jonnyboy1544, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1Ahhh the days of leaded gasoline!
    • atomicfireball, on 03/05/2008, -0/+2Well, $0.29 in 1970 is worth $3.87 today when calculated using the percent of GDP method. There are other ways to measure how much money from another time would be worth today, but ones like the CPI are heavily skewed by the fact that so much manufacturing got offshored in the eighties. So, while I don't like it any more than anybody else, gas really isn't that much more expensive than it was in 1970 in real terms. I mean, you could buy a nice house in the burbs back then for $20,000. The problem was that gas prices increased more slowly than most goods for much of the last forty years, with certain exceptions, like the gas crisis of the seventies. It is also true, however, that many people make less today than they did in 1970 in real dollar terms, and you can thank Reagonomics and other flawed conservative faith-based economic strategies designed to make the rich richer for that.
  • tikiman453, on 03/05/2008, -0/+3i think we've got some of the cheapest gas in the country here in idaho. it's like $2.97 here.
    $2.94 with my fred meyer rewards card!
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