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Originally Posted by TheTimeTraveler
I remember back in 1973 when the gas station's underground storage tanks were having sediment issues not because they were being filled up, but rather consumers were using up every drop of fuel that the tanks held (and all that sediment was being sucked up).
We were in the midst of a so called serious energy shortage and lines formed at every gas station in the northeast and drained the underground tanks dry.
For some reason some other parts of the country didn't experience long lines at the gas station until sometime in the late 70's when they had the same issue.
Anyone remember gas for 27 cents a gallon? I do. I paid $2.69 a gallon yesterday @ Costco. That's about 10 times as much as I paid 52 years ago.
Anyone remember the odd even days when you could buy gas?
Anyone remember that you couldn't buy gas on a Sunday?
Time flies.
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the tanks back then were plain steel coated with tar. I was working at the Tulsa station in Meredith (right across from the docks) during the gas lines. we tried, odd/even, gallon limits, off days. no matter what people complained so eventually we just took a delivery and sold it to whoever showed up first. At some point they put in new tanks and they had to hold the tank down with an excavator while the hole was backfilled because the tank was floating in water.