I remember this.... I was a Junior in high school in Lorain at the time. This was when Japanese cars started flooding the market promising more gas mileage. It was the beginning of the end of Ohio’s great boom of steel, auto manufacturing, and ship building. If you couldn’t afford college, the only options by 1982 was to join the military or leave town to find work out west. Minimum wage jobs were hard to come by when unemployment benefits ran out.
The sad thing- minimum wage hasn’t gone up much to compete with the dramatic hike in gas costs. I know this is supposed to be “funny”, but if you look back to what min wage was over time, you sort of slowly sink into a dark void of endless depression. Sigh 😔
77 cents a gallon? I recall here in Buffalo, some 30 years ago... one week, the unleaded at Atlantic was $1.199 per gallon, and then, a week or two after, it was 69.9 cents for the same gallon.
That was the beginning of the robbery of the world, if we hadn't purchased the products that were going up in price to put the squeeze on Americans we wouldn't be paying $3.00 now. We all sing the same song 'I have to get to work' and 'I have to go on a business trip' and they sign the same song 'if you want pay for it' and the profits keep on rolling in. The chocolate used those profits to buy their whole supply chain and now when they tell you that the price of sugar, milk or coca is rising, you can bet that it is, they can raise the price of any of the products they own and pass the increase to the consumer.
I remember this....
I was a Junior in high school in Lorain at the time.
This was when Japanese cars started flooding the market promising more gas mileage.
It was the beginning of the end of Ohio’s great boom of steel, auto manufacturing, and ship building.
If you couldn’t afford college, the only options by 1982 was to join the military or leave town to find work out west.
Minimum wage jobs were hard to come by when unemployment benefits ran out.
The sad thing- minimum wage hasn’t gone up much to compete with the dramatic hike in gas costs. I know this is supposed to be “funny”, but if you look back to what min wage was over time, you sort of slowly sink into a dark void of endless depression. Sigh 😔
LivingDeadGirl ..is your username referencing the 80s movie?
not just the minimum,but wages in general.
@@ChrisMisc1 no its rob zombie
Easy…don’t work minimum wage jobs.
77 cents a gallon? I recall here in Buffalo, some 30 years ago... one week, the unleaded at Atlantic was $1.199 per gallon, and then, a week or two after, it was 69.9 cents for the same gallon.
This was back in the day when people were normal, calm, reasonable & used common sense & courtesy.
Obviously you weren’t alive in 1979.
Back when diesel fuel was far cheaper than gasoline. Wonder why it costs far more now?
I remember cheap gas, dam I wished it was like that again😁
You’re joking, right? Gas was not cheap in 1979. Hopefully you got a little wiser in the last four years.
Boy how history repeats itself 🤦
There ain't no shortage. They're just greedy
Quick bring people from 1979 to 2019 let them see them those prices.
They would literally die of shock and awe…….
They would see essentially the same prices. The costs in constant dollars is pretty much the same.
I guess if as of 2019 we've officially hit the surcharge
*This is so awesome. History is repeating itself. Are we sure Jimmy Carter didn't clone himself into Joe Biden?* 😲
Ridiculous season and SAD. NO CHRISTMAS LIGHTS on houses...such a sad depressing time...and it was a crock....
NO CROCK DEALERS HAD TO CUT LINES SHORT TO MAINTAIN ALLOCATIONS
Inspector gadget on the news
Let’s go Brandon
And here we are in 2021 paying 1000 times more( obviously i exaggerated this number 😒 before i get trolled) 😅
And have incompetence at the highest level killing our energy independence .
BAHAHA! This is so cheap! I bet they never thought we'd end up paying over $2/gallon!
It’s not cheap. Gas was essentially the same price it is now. Seventy seven cents is about $3.50 which is close to the average cost now.
@@williamwilson6499 I see
In Scotland I used to pay 78p per litre. That was in 2000.
Omg that's hilarious!!! It's 4.19 today.
it is called inflation...........
It is called inflaton....
Chris Wright please explain inflation and oil
@Shameer and Joe killed it smh
@Shameer not that complicated
That was the beginning of the robbery of the world, if we hadn't purchased the products that were going up in price to put the squeeze on Americans we wouldn't be paying $3.00 now.
We all sing the same song 'I have to get to work' and 'I have to go on a business trip' and they sign the same song 'if you want pay for it' and the profits keep on rolling in.
The chocolate used those profits to buy their whole supply chain and now when they tell you that the price of sugar, milk or coca is rising, you can bet that it is, they can raise the price of any of the products they own and pass the increase to the consumer.
Mad Max
And to think this was all because Justine never knew the rules!
GP? 1979 ?
Ah you just figured this out?
5.00
I remember these news people .
Was 9 yrs old then .
Imagine what Hourly Wages Were in the 1970's High Struggles.....On God
They was probably tweaking
Shoutout from 2021 shortage
Before making a very dumb comment…convert the prices shown to today’s dollar.
2020 the price is all over the place.............
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They hadn't met Joe Biden yet.