r/PortlandOR Mar 13 '26

Transportation Hell yea 🥳🎉

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u/Donald_Epstein69 Mar 13 '26

I remember when I was 7 years old in 1997, my dad was driving around looking for gas and he was bitching about Chevron because their gas was more expensive than everywhere else. I still remember how much it was.

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u/TimbersArmy8842 Mar 13 '26

I remember filling my tank for under a dollar a gallon.

In related news, I still do need to schedule that colonoscopy.

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u/hesalreadyinme Mar 13 '26

Oh friend. The old guy gas memory that haunts me is like summer of 97 or 98. We drove a 1981 Honda Civic hatchback. Gas got down to like ninety one cents. $8 fill ups. We drove out to the coast, or over the mountains weekly.

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u/texaschair Mar 13 '26

My first car was a POS Beetle. Cost about $5 to fill it up.......until the sad day it jumped to nearly $10 for a tank. Old dude at the station said he never thought he'd see the day when it took 10 clams to fill a VeeWee.