There were a couple of independent stations in my small West Texas Home
town that were always engaged in price wars during the 60's. I recall
one time for a very brief period of time, one of the stations got the
price down to a nickel a gallon. I bet you will never see that again!!!
Joe C.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-triumphs@autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-triumphs@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Bill & Skip Pugh
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 9:34 AM
To: triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: Gas War
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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