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Cigar
01-13-2015, 10:21 AM
Oil plummet: Crude dives below $45 for first time since 2009

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Brent crude and WTI have continued their headlong plunge in early trading Tuesday, hitting record six-year lows. Brent crude futures fell 2.64 percent to $46.12 in trading on London’s ICE exchange, while WTI dropped by 2.41 percent, plunging below $45 to $44.96 (10:00 MSK). Brent and WTI prices are now at their lowest levels since spring 2009.

The ruble was quick to react to the news, losing more than 2 percent in early trading on the Moscow Stock Exchange. The Russian currency was trading at 64.93 to the dollar and 76.94 to the euro at 11:00 am local time.

On Tuesday, UAE Oil Minister Suhail Mohammed Faraj Al Mazroui said OPEC was no longer able to “protect” oil prices. “OPEC cannot continue protecting a certain price. That is not the only aim of OPEC,” he said at a Gulf Intelligence energy event in Abu Dhabi. “We are concerned about the balance of the market, but we cannot be the only party that is responsible to balance the market,” Al Mazroui said.

Mazouri said the UAE was not planning to alter its output, adding that all oil producers should demonstrate awareness of global economic development and regulate their production accordingly. "The key factor of hydrocarbon overproduction has become the extraction of shale oil,” he said. “And this should be corrected."

Read more at: http://rt.com/business/222067-oil-record-drop-trading/

Everyone might be able to say they do before long. Prices like that may soon be on their way back to a pump near you! :tongue:

PolWatch
01-13-2015, 10:24 AM
I remember when gas was .30 a gallon. I also remember 'gas wars' when local competing stations would lower the prices even lower.

Matty
01-13-2015, 10:26 AM
I remember under Carter waiting for hours in line for the privilege of buying gas!

hanger4
01-13-2015, 10:29 AM
I remember when gas was .30 a gallon. I also remember 'gas wars' when local competing stations would lower the prices even lower.

So do I, but I'll deny, deflect and distract if asked.

I also believe you're not a day over 30.

Common Sense
01-13-2015, 10:29 AM
I buy my gas in liters.

exotix
01-13-2015, 10:31 AM
I'm curious as to the GOP response on this one ... surely Obama blame is warranted.

Matty
01-13-2015, 10:34 AM
I'm curious as to the GOP response on this one ... surely Obama blame is warranted.


This is called witch stirring the cauldron!

nathanbforrest45
01-13-2015, 10:36 AM
I remember when gas was .30 a gallon. I also remember 'gas wars' when local competing stations would lower the prices even lower.

Did you have to hand crank your Model T then?

del
01-13-2015, 10:37 AM
I buy my gas in liters.

commie

Cigar
01-13-2015, 10:37 AM
I remember under Carter waiting for hours in line for the privilege of buying gas!

I remember people calling Carter the worse President Ever :laugh:

del
01-13-2015, 10:38 AM
i remember buying gas for .30

long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away

domer76
01-13-2015, 10:39 AM
Absolutely! I recall being worried about affording to drive when it hit $0.50 a gallon. At $0.30, I could fill my Honda 90 for $0.50 and ride forever.

nic34
01-13-2015, 10:39 AM
I remember under Carter waiting for hours in line for the privilege of buying gas!

You'll of course show how presidents have anything to do with gas prices to go with that comment, right?

I'll probably have to wait all day like hanger is.....

nathanbforrest45
01-13-2015, 10:39 AM
I remember people calling Carter the worse President Ever :laugh:


And he was until 2008 when he lost his crown to the New Socialist On The Block

Bo-4
01-13-2015, 10:39 AM
Yep, this takes Keystone completely off the table. It cost Canada around $60 a barrel to extract tar sand, transport it and refine it. Forget about the cost of the pipeline.

Dead. :grin:

hanger4
01-13-2015, 10:39 AM
Did you have to hand crank your Model T then?

Mean :evil: just mean. Funny but mean. :grin:

Common Sense
01-13-2015, 10:40 AM
Speaking of Carter, he's done some amazing work lately in Africa.

Truly a great guy.

Safety
01-13-2015, 10:40 AM
When I graduated high school it was .97 a gallon, and at that time I thought that was outrageously expensive.

del
01-13-2015, 10:41 AM
Did you have to hand crank your Model T then?

no, you just open the throttle and hit the starter button with your foot

PolWatch
01-13-2015, 10:42 AM
Who remembers pulling into a gas station and asking the attendant for $1.00 worth of gas, check the oil, water & tires? They also cleaned the windshield....and it was '55 Chevy

nathanbforrest45
01-13-2015, 10:42 AM
Absolutely! I recall being worried about affording to drive when it hit $0.50 a gallon. At $0.30, I could fill my Honda 90 for $0.50 and ride forever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viYfWqSECAk

del
01-13-2015, 10:42 AM
driver ed car used to go to the offprice place .19/gal

1970

nathanbforrest45
01-13-2015, 10:43 AM
Speaking of Carter, he's done some amazing work lately in Africa.

Truly a great guy.

Spreading Ebola?

Common Sense
01-13-2015, 10:43 AM
Wow...some of you really do remember the Alamo.

nic34
01-13-2015, 10:44 AM
Doesn't seem that long ago:

https://i.embed.ly/1/display/resize?key=1e6a1a1efdb011df84894040444cdc60&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Fmedia%2FBOqKtRHCE AECmU-.jpg

hanger4
01-13-2015, 10:44 AM
Yep, this takes Keystone completely off the table. It cost Canada around $60 a barrel to extract tar sand, transport it and refine it. Forget about the cost of the pipeline.

Dead. :grin:

Lets hope you're right in your prognostication and these costs

stay down, but it's highly doubtful.

Matty
01-13-2015, 10:44 AM
I remember people calling Carter the worse President Ever :laugh:


Not anymore! Tick tick, tick tock

Common Sense
01-13-2015, 10:44 AM
Spreading Ebola?

Saving many lives.

del
01-13-2015, 10:44 AM
Wow...some of you really do remember the Alamo.

54 40 or fight, motherfucker



:)

hanger4
01-13-2015, 10:45 AM
You'll of course show how presidents have anything to do with gas prices to go with that comment, right?

I'll probably have to wait all day like hanger is.....

Beat downs are a biatch ain't they.

Cigar
01-13-2015, 10:45 AM
Not anymore! Tick tick, tick tock

Two (2) More Years :grin:

Crepitus
01-13-2015, 11:11 AM
When I graduated high school it was .97 a gallon, and at that time I thought that was outrageously expensive.
About the same for me in 1984.

nathanbforrest45
01-13-2015, 11:37 AM
Saving many lives.


The only thing Jimma Cawder and I agree on is Habitat for Humanity. I think that is a worthwhile endeavor and I support them with both money and my labor as often as I can. Jimma Cawder's main failure is he believes the rest of us are stupid and without government intervention we would all be living in mud huts.

Common Sense
01-13-2015, 11:39 AM
The only thing Jimma Cawder and I agree on is Habitat for Humanity. I think that is a worthwhile endeavor and I support them with both money and my labor as often as I can. Jimma Cawder's main failure is he believes the rest of us are stupid and without government intervention we would all be living in mud huts.

I was speaking more about his work in Africa. Like his work to rid Africa of the Guinea worm.

Ransom
01-13-2015, 11:57 AM
I remember when gas was .30 a gallon. I also remember 'gas wars' when local competing stations would lower the prices even lower.

:grampa:

You kids get off my lawn!

Polecat
01-13-2015, 12:12 PM
I buy my gas in liters.

Silly Canadian. You probably use that funny money too.

Common Sense
01-13-2015, 12:16 PM
Silly Canadian. You probably use that funny money too.

...well at least you guys use the metric system for your money. So you guys can't be too far back in the stone age.

Bob
01-13-2015, 12:22 PM
I remember when gas was .30 a gallon. I also remember 'gas wars' when local competing stations would lower the prices even lower.

In the USA, I paid .15 per gallon and in Germany on the American base, .11 per gallon.

I won $1,000 for the standard oil program called lucky license.

What is strange is they called my home to tell us we won. At first I did not believe the caller.

Polecat
01-13-2015, 12:35 PM
...well at least you guys use the metric system for your money. So you guys can't be too far back in the stone age.

That is odd. We were poised to go metric in the 70's. I remember the all the hype and then almost overnight it died. I had no interest in anything but having a good time in those days so it was a none issue to me.

Chris
01-13-2015, 12:35 PM
I remember when gas was .30 a gallon. I also remember 'gas wars' when local competing stations would lower the prices even lower.

I remember 25˘/gal. First car, Chevy Corvair, 4 cylinder, a gallon would get me all over hell and back or a day. Heck, half a dozen coke bottles picked up here and there and turned in at the liquor store paid for it. Ah, the good ol' days!

Bob
01-13-2015, 12:36 PM
Who remembers pulling into a gas station and asking the attendant for $1.00 worth of gas, check the oil, water & tires? They also cleaned the windshield....and it was '55 Chevy

Working for various gas stations pumping gas, airing up tires, washing windows, checking oil and battery, i pumped a lot of gasoline in the mid .20 per gallon range.

Bob
01-13-2015, 12:39 PM
I remember 25˘/gal. First car, Chevy Corvair, 4 cylinder, a gallon would get me all over hell and back or a day. Heck, half a dozen coke bottles picked up here and there and turned in at the liquor store paid for it. Ah, the good ol' days!

I bought a low mileage Corvair Monza from a close friend. I really enjoyed that car. I believe it got close to 30 mpg. The 64 Monza handled very well.

At the Chevrolet plant then in Oakland CA, i drove a zillion Corvairs that had the handling problems.

They also brought Corvettes to the Oakland plant for some odd reason and I loved driving them. Sadly it was just to a large parking lot.

Common Sense
01-13-2015, 12:41 PM
Working for various gas stations pumping gas, airing up tires, washing windows, checking oil and battery, i pumped a lot of gasoline in the mid .20 per gallon range.

Did you change the wicks on their Carbide lamps as well?

Chris
01-13-2015, 12:56 PM
I bought a low mileage Corvair Monza from a close friend. I really enjoyed that car. I believe it got close to 30 mpg. The 64 Monza handled very well.

At the Chevrolet plant then in Oakland CA, i drove a zillion Corvairs that had the handling problems.

They also brought Corvettes to the Oakland plant for some odd reason and I loved driving them. Sadly it was just to a large parking lot.


I forget all the details, but remember the first, a '62, white, automatic, I bought for $225 in '69. The second, a red '64 convertible stick I was given for getting it started. 3rd was a Corvair Van that burned oil almost faster than gasoline. They were fun though. I still hate Nader.

Bob
01-13-2015, 01:01 PM
I forget all the details, but remember the first, a '62, white, automatic, I bought for $225 in '69. The second, a red '64 convertible stick I was given for getting it started. 3rd was a Corvair Van that burned oil almost faster than gasoline. They were fun though. I still hate Nader.

Nadar hurt Corvair owners. He destroyed a car that was actually good.

My 64 Monza was blue and a lot of fun to drive. It had the 4 speed transmission and the higher hp engine. It did start leaking oil once it got to high milage and you could not suffer using the heater. I pulled the engine at my machine shop and had the guys rebuild it for me. The engine was put back in and still it leaked oil. I believe it leaked around the valve push rods tubes. Anyway, I bought the wife a Cougar since that is what she wanted.

Bob
01-13-2015, 01:02 PM
Did you change the wicks on their Carbide lamps as well?

LMAO. Sorry that was before my time.

BB-35
01-13-2015, 01:13 PM
Wow...some of you really do remember the Alamo.
We remember Goliad as well....

BB-35
01-13-2015, 01:16 PM
Silly Canadian. You probably use that funny money too.
Probably speaks all that funny Canadian as well...

nathanbforrest45
01-13-2015, 01:18 PM
Did you change the wicks on their Carbide lamps as well?


Tallow candles were all the rage when Bob was a tyke.

Bob
01-13-2015, 01:29 PM
Tallow candles were all the rage when Bob was a tyke.

Not exactly but when as a 2nd grader living at Roseville, CA, my parents did use kerosene lamps since the house had no electric service. My dad jury rigged auto headlamps to a small generator to give us our electric lamps after using the kerosene lamps for some period of time.

Why he moved us from a new house at Oakland CA to the hinter lands still puzzles me.

Mr. Right
01-13-2015, 01:35 PM
Did you change the wicks on their Carbide lamps as well?

Sir, Carbide Lamps don't use wicks.

Mr. Right
01-13-2015, 01:44 PM
I remember when gas was about .19 a gallon when we lived in S. La. I also remember those silly S&H green stamps they doled out with gas.
My brother and I got to stick the stamps to the books, mom traded them back in for flatware and other things. By 1974, and my older brother's
Sr. year of H.S. gas was .36 a gal. 3 bucks filled up the VW bug.

PolWatch
01-13-2015, 03:01 PM
My husband liked Nader but would not vote for him because of the Corvair thing. He had a ramp-side, Corvair truck...strangest truck ya ever saw!

Bo-4
01-13-2015, 03:07 PM
I remember $45 cents in high school. Went a long way in my VW Bug!

Bob
01-13-2015, 03:09 PM
My husband liked Nader but would not vote for him because of the Corvair thing. He had a ramp-side, Corvair truck...strangest truck ya ever saw!

What I loved was being able to pretend it was a sports car on very winding roads. Nadar shot down a good car. Chevrolet could fix the oil leak problems.

http://corvaircenter.com/phorum/read.php?1,62284,62284

Mine was like this Monza. Mine was this color but was the 2 dr coupe. Photo shows a convertible.

10190

donttread
01-13-2015, 03:41 PM
I remember when gas was .30 a gallon. I also remember 'gas wars' when local competing stations would lower the prices even lower.

I can remember scraping change to put 2 gallons of .69 cent per gallon gas in my buddies Camaro. Of course we had beer money, but you have to priotize

Bob
01-13-2015, 05:27 PM
Can anyone top my best price of .11 per gallon of regular in Germany circa 1963?

del
01-13-2015, 05:50 PM
Can anyone top my best price of .11 per gallon of regular in Germany circa 1963?

no bob, you win the internet

kudos

Chris
01-13-2015, 06:02 PM
My husband liked Nader but would not vote for him because of the Corvair thing. He had a ramp-side, Corvair truck...strangest truck ya ever saw!


Truck was identical to the van, just not covered and a side ramp.

http://i.snag.gy/ZlLpL.jpg

http://i.snag.gy/1bc4l.jpg

The bed made no sense. I built the middle up with a platform for a flat bed.

The was a corvair station wagon too.

PolWatch
01-13-2015, 06:05 PM
I had a boyfriend who had a Corvair Spyder in the mid 60's....looked sporty!

Chris
01-13-2015, 06:11 PM
Turbocharged!

Bob
01-13-2015, 06:16 PM
Truck was identical to the van, just not covered and a side ramp.

http://i.snag.gy/ZlLpL.jpg

http://i.snag.gy/1bc4l.jpg

The bed made no sense. I built the middle up with a platform for a flat bed.

The was a corvair station wagon too.

I drove hundreds of Corvairs working for PMT (part of Southern Pacific Railroad) yet have no recall of driving a van or the truck version. Thanks for posting the photos. I have seen the vans but wonder if the truck is a rare collectors car by this time?

PolWatch
01-13-2015, 06:17 PM
Turbocharged!

did they even have turbocharged in 1965?

Chris
01-13-2015, 06:25 PM
Yes, they go back to the 1800s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbocharger. They were used in airplanes. Corvair was one of first cars to use one.

Professor Peabody
01-13-2015, 06:26 PM
I drove hundreds of Corvairs working for PMT (part of Southern Pacific Railroad) yet have no recall of driving a van or the truck version. Thanks for posting the photos. I have seen the vans but wonder if the truck is a rare collectors car by this time?

http://thumbs2.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/m_A2_lkbvLdkXO5zan1_6XQ.jpg http://www.corvaircorsa.com/miller/Judson.jpg

BOB! I had a 1967 Monza Convertible with a Judson Super Charger.

Redrose
01-13-2015, 06:39 PM
Oil plummet: Crude dives below $45 for first time since 2009

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B7N0SmgIEAEzh7O.png

Brent crude and WTI have continued their headlong plunge in early trading Tuesday, hitting record six-year lows. Brent crude futures fell 2.64 percent to $46.12 in trading on London’s ICE exchange, while WTI dropped by 2.41 percent, plunging below $45 to $44.96 (10:00 MSK). Brent and WTI prices are now at their lowest levels since spring 2009.

The ruble was quick to react to the news, losing more than 2 percent in early trading on the Moscow Stock Exchange. The Russian currency was trading at 64.93 to the dollar and 76.94 to the euro at 11:00 am local time.

On Tuesday, UAE Oil Minister Suhail Mohammed Faraj Al Mazroui said OPEC was no longer able to “protect” oil prices. “OPEC cannot continue protecting a certain price. That is not the only aim of OPEC,” he said at a Gulf Intelligence energy event in Abu Dhabi. “We are concerned about the balance of the market, but we cannot be the only party that is responsible to balance the market,” Al Mazroui said.

Mazouri said the UAE was not planning to alter its output, adding that all oil producers should demonstrate awareness of global economic development and regulate their production accordingly. "The key factor of hydrocarbon overproduction has become the extraction of shale oil,” he said. “And this should be corrected."

Read more at: http://rt.com/business/222067-oil-record-drop-trading/

Everyone might be able to say they do before long. Prices like that may soon be on their way back to a pump near you! :tongue:

I remember 25-30 cents per gallon and a free drinking glass when I started driving even cheaper as a kid. Dad would fill up the car for $2.00 full service, with the oil checked, windshield cleaned and tire pressure checked.

Chris
01-13-2015, 07:16 PM
I remember 25-30 cents per gallon and a free drinking glass when I started driving even cheaper as a kid. Dad would fill up the car for $2.00 full service, with the oil checked, windshield cleaned and tire pressure checked.

I worked at a couple full service stations, yep, washing windshields, checking oil, fixing flats. That's how I paid for my Corvair!

Redrose
01-13-2015, 07:24 PM
I worked at a couple full service stations, yep, washing windshields, checking oil, fixing flats. That's how I paid for my Corvair!


That was great in bad weather on my way to work. I didn't have to get soaked or dirty pumping gas. Our stations didn't have the awnings we see now. I would tip the attendant too. We paid a bit more for the full serve pump, but it was worth it. I had an old car to start with, and it burned oil, almost every fill up they'd have to add some oil. That was my "routine maintenance".

PolWatch
01-13-2015, 07:30 PM
I know it really sounds odd to some, but I still hate to pump gas. My husband usually fills up the cars. My mother imprinted on me so strongly that only 'bad girls hang out at gas stations! Sounds so quaint now!

Chris
01-13-2015, 07:34 PM
That was great in bad weather on my way to work. I didn't have to get soaked or dirty pumping gas. Our stations didn't have the awnings we see now. I would tip the attendant too. We paid a bit more for the full serve pump, but it was worth it. I had an old car to start with, and it burned oil, almost every fill up they'd have to add some oil. That was my "routine maintenance".

Tips is why the attendant worked so hard. You knew you were nice and polite and did everything proper, you got rewarded. Plus I learned how to do all that for my own cars.

Common
01-13-2015, 07:35 PM
I bought gas for 17cts a gallon

Chris
01-13-2015, 07:36 PM
I know it really sounds odd to some, but I still hate to pump gas. My husband usually fills up the cars. My mother imprinted on me so strongly that only 'bad girls hang out at gas stations! Sounds so quaint now!

Damn, not even bad girls hung out at the gas stations I worked at. They were all over at the Dairy Queen making noise and such.

PolWatch
01-13-2015, 07:37 PM
My brother worked at a gas station in high school...there were always girls hanging around there....mother was very outspoken about their moral character!

Redrose
01-13-2015, 07:52 PM
My brother worked at a gas station in high school...there were always girls hanging around there....mother was very outspoken about their moral character!

My ex played pool very well and while we were dating we'd go to "Golden Billiards". It was a nice, well lit pool palace, not hall. Many teens were there, but my dad was furious, only bad girls go in pools halls.

We went bowling one night, I had on white hip huggers. I was 17. I got home and dad was furious again. My ex like to smack my butt, occassionally, and I had a nice black hand print on my butt.

PolWatch
01-13-2015, 07:53 PM
yeap...by today's standards...quaint

Chris
01-13-2015, 07:53 PM
Must've been me then. :-(

Chris
01-13-2015, 07:54 PM
I bought gas for 17cts a gallon

Bob's got you beat at 11 cents.

PolWatch
01-13-2015, 07:55 PM
My father was old school...first date with any boy...he had all the guns out...'cleaning' them. worked every time. I was never late getting home.

iriemon
01-13-2015, 08:09 PM
I remember when gas was .30 a gallon. I also remember 'gas wars' when local competing stations would lower the prices even lower.

I remember when the average income was $4000 a year.

Chris
01-13-2015, 08:12 PM
My father was old school...first date with any boy...he had all the guns out...'cleaning' them. worked every time. I was never late getting home.

My girlfriend's parents back then were real super strict. I had to gain their trust before I could take her out.

del
01-13-2015, 08:12 PM
My father was old school...first date with any boy...he had all the guns out...'cleaning' them. worked every time. I was never late getting home.

i found with my daughter that nothing focuses a young man's attention to detail, like curfew times and such, quite as well as the sound of a pump action shotgun.

del
01-13-2015, 08:13 PM
My girlfriend's parents back then were real super strict. I had to gain their trust before I could take her out.

my mom had to be in by 9 when she was engaged to my dad, and she was over 21 at the time.

saturdays they got to stay out until 11.

Chris
01-13-2015, 08:15 PM
my mom had to be in by 9 when she was engaged to my dad, and she was over 21 at the time.

saturdays they got to stay out until 11.


Ah, the way things were!

PolWatch
01-13-2015, 08:16 PM
My father hated it when I married...he had to start cutting the grass again. He always managed to get my boyfriends to cut the grass for him...go figure.

Chris
01-13-2015, 08:21 PM
My father hated it when I married...he had to start cutting the grass again. He always managed to get my boyfriends to cut the grass for him...go figure.

And that was when this was a lawn mower:

http://i.snag.gy/Xozbm.jpg

PolWatch
01-13-2015, 08:22 PM
why do you think he was so mad that I married? :rollseyes:

Don
01-13-2015, 08:39 PM
I remember getting gas for about 22 cents a gallon in 1966. I pulled into the Texaco Central in my 1954 Chrysler New Yorker with a 331 Hemi and having the attendant put 22 gallons in my tank. I gave him $5 and I got change and some green stamps. While the gas was being put in they washed my windows and checked the oil and tires. I was 16. When gasoline and cigarettes hit 40 cents I knew it was the end of the world as we knew it.:shocked:

On edit: Adjusted for inflation gasoline is now a bit cheaper than it was in 1966.

del
01-13-2015, 08:41 PM
my son moved back in with us for a few months that turned into a year.

when he announced he was moving back out, i announced i was buying a snowblower

Redrose
01-13-2015, 09:14 PM
my mom had to be in by 9 when she was engaged to my dad, and she was over 21 at the time.

saturdays they got to stay out until 11.


My first date, engagement and marriage to my first husband were arranged by our parents. 11pm curfew. Our parents were strict. I woke up at 40.

nathanbforrest45
01-14-2015, 07:26 AM
When my daughter started dating she told me she wanted someone just like me. I told her if she brought a boy home who was just like me at that age I would shoot him on the spot. He probably was though!!

nic34
01-14-2015, 09:12 AM
I remember getting gas for about 22 cents a gallon in 1966. I pulled into the Texaco Central in my 1954 Chrysler New Yorker with a 331 Hemi and having the attendant put 22 gallons in my tank. I gave him $5 and I got change and some green stamps. While the gas was being put in they washed my windows and checked the oil and tires. I was 16. When gasoline and cigarettes hit 40 cents I knew it was the end of the world as we knew it.:shocked:

On edit: Adjusted for inflation gasoline is now a bit cheaper than it was in 1966.

And we all thought bob was old. :grin:

Remember the stations that gave out glasses and dishes? My dad got a whole set of these at Blakely back in '66. (I didn't start driving till '67)

https://d1k9ui3j6p1xmw.cloudfront.net/product/615044/image/0/Ua4AhE0KJ0qGhZq0uILnlQ/original.jpg

http://www.city-data.com/forum/attachments/phoenix-area/58895d1267469132-how-do-you-remember-phoenix-stories-blakelys-station-1962.jpg

Mac-7
01-14-2015, 09:14 AM
And that was when this was a lawn mower:

http://i.snag.gy/Xozbm.jpg

Young lib environmentalist wackos are still buying those things.

nic34
01-14-2015, 09:16 AM
And that was when this was a lawn mower:

http://i.snag.gy/Xozbm.jpg

They still sell those at Home Depot.

http://media.tumblr.com/1197c709c47cc9d79a9cc879991a8e03/tumblr_inline_n9rf0fG2cy1sbhase.jpg

texan
01-14-2015, 09:19 AM
Waiting in lines to buy $1 per gal gas ruined Carter. It magnified his passive nature. People came to realize that under no circumstances (unless it was a direct attack on the US border) would he use the military or any kind of force. People watched Iran take hostages and Carter screw around looking weak. I honestly never thought Obama could get to that point but that is his rep now. His rep is that he is weak, may be somewhat unfair. But it is the perception in the world. Putin looks forceful and in charge / strong.

Yes I remember the cheap gas.

nic34
01-14-2015, 09:20 AM
Young lib environmentalist wackos are still buying those things.

Only if the yard is this size:

http://homeideasfinder.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/simple-small-backyard-ideas.jpg

Mac-7
01-14-2015, 09:32 AM
Only if the yard is this size:

http://homeideasfinder.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/simple-small-backyard-ideas.jpg

most of them live in high rise urban apartments and think grass is something they smoke.

But a few do stray to the suburbs and have a yard to maintain.

Chris
01-14-2015, 09:34 AM
They still sell those at Home Depot.

http://media.tumblr.com/1197c709c47cc9d79a9cc879991a8e03/tumblr_inline_n9rf0fG2cy1sbhase.jpg


Right, how men mow. But just up the road apiece from Home Depot is Fertile Gardens where I bought mountain cedar mulch and river rock to xeriscape my yard--no more grass!

nic34
01-14-2015, 09:44 AM
Right, how men mow. But just up the road apiece from Home Depot is Fertile Gardens where I bought mountain cedar mulch and river rock to xeriscape my yard--no more grass!

Atta boy.

I keep it natural too...

http://arizonadirtroads.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/sized-CK-or-bust-pics-014.jpg

Chris
01-14-2015, 09:57 AM
Atta boy.

I keep it natural too...

http://arizonadirtroads.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/sized-CK-or-bust-pics-014.jpg



Looks like a Chevy truck. :-)

Mac-7
01-14-2015, 10:06 AM
Looks like a Chevy truck. :-)

Its a lo-boy trailer.