Mastodawn

Gas stations about to have a Y2K problem when prices exceed $9.99 9/10

@benaar I'm old enough to remember when they struggled with $1 on mechanical pumps, and they fixed it by using a "1" sticker and changing the mechanism slightly.

Which is stupid when the correct answer was "stop selling gas in gallons and start using liters like normal people".

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Mark Whybird 1d ago

@BalooUriza @benaar I’m old enough to remember George Bush (snr.)’s Gulf war in 1990 very suddenly pushing prices above $1/litre in remote parts of Australia for the first time, and fuel stations hitting that limit in their mechanical pumps for the first time. (In less remote areas, it peaked at around 80¢/litre at that time.)

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Baloo Uriza 1d ago

@whybird That was around the time the US passed $1/gal. I have living childhood memory of 69.9¢/gal regular (leaded) gasoline, and 84.9¢/gal unleaded.

The two lowest prices I've ever paid for gas would be CA19.4¢/l in Vancouver, BC in the late 1990s, and (thanks to an idiot running the station incorrectly setting the pumps) US8.8¢/gal in Tulsa a decade ago (it would have been $8.888 if I used a Walmart discount card).

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Baloo Uriza 1d ago

Sorry for the edit spree, I swear I can type.

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Mark Whybird

@BalooUriza @benaar All good; in general, it’s not a post from me if there aren’t at least three edits needed.

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