Thread: Cheap Gas?

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I just saw a segment on the news about people going to Tijuana for gas. Lines are very long and one guy spends an hour and a half to get gas there, but it is about a dollar and a half cheaper per gallon.

When we lived in California we took a day trip to Tijuana and gas in California was $ 1 a gallon then (1979). The Mexican gas station had those old style gas pumps with a reset crank on the side, and the prices were in liters and pesos. My Cadillac had a 20 gallon tank and I was on fumes. I told the Attendant to fill it up, and as I watched the meter spinning around like mad I turned to my Wife and said, "Boy are we gonna get ripped off!!"

When he was done filling it up the guy comes to my window and starts to do the conversion math in his head, and finally says to me "Six Dollars, please." I couldn't believe it was so cheap, but when we got up the road a distance and stopped to eat, the car wouldn't shut off. The gas was so low octane it just sat there and dieseled. I had to pull it into gear to stall it!! All that week I drove the car to work trying to get rid of that lousy gas, it would knock and ping on every little grade, and continue to run when the key was off.

But what I would give for a $ 6 fill up about now.

Don

Its the worthless dollar and a standing law that `we must be bled dry of assets and wealth .....just look at the other countries water cars that run on cheap creek water and cost very little to buy ,but are illegal to be imported untill we are bled dry and the new Amero saves us...........