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To: Joan Osland Graffius who wrote (95834)	10/25/2012 3:24:53 AM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 218642

>>The 4 cent price for a gallon of gas was in the early 40's, this is what we paid on the farm.<< Ah, you were buying in bulk. Cheaper than paying retail at the gas station where they washed your car windows, checked your oil, pumped up your tires, and rewarded you with S&H green stamps... ;)

To: Joan Osland Graffius who wrote (95834)	10/25/2012 9:15:34 AM
From: Tommaso	Respond to of 218642

My father was a doctor so he go all the gas he wanted, too. I think yours was tax-free. Don't recall the pump price then but suspect it was at least 12 cents. By the time I was paying it was around 25 cents. My father used to drive off to go fishing--sometimes quite a distance. My mother and her friend saved ration tickets and carpooled for a shopping trip to Chattanooga, 55 miles away. My father rebuked her for wasting gas in wartime. She never got over it.