And I remember my dad complaining bitterly about the Flying A station
charing $0.31 per gallon of gas, claiming it was highway robbery -- and
when he came home from work once a few years after telling us an
apparently true story of a few gas stations in the southwest having a
gas war and they got down to something like 8 cents a gallon.

Retired VIP wrote:
>
> No, never owned an SUV. I'm not even sure I know what an SUV is. But
> I do remember roaring down the local Mom&Pop grocery store in my '59
> Plymouth, burning $0.30 per gallon gasoline, to buy a $0.45 - 5lb bag
> of flour and complaining that hamburger was up to $0.25 per pound.