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MEXICOWANDERER
Nov 05, 2017Explorer
I think those number crunchers have been imbibing in more than a few of those "numbers"
My ten dollar per hour process operator wage at Shell Oil pays thirty three dollars per hour today. My eighteen dollar per shop labor hour rate in 1979 has nine more years to go...
I bet you three to one NONE of those people were out of grade school, shoot maybe not even born when 1970 rolled around.
This is NUTSO! Rancho Cordova near Sacramento, AUGUST FIFTEEN NINETEEN SEVENTY ONE. Regular leaded gasoline
FOURTEEN
POUNT
NINE
CENTS
PER GALLON
Flying A Station Clayton Rd, Concord CA. 31.9 cents per gallon until Flying A sold the Tidewater Refinery.
You hit the nail precisely on the head why I despise today's "Proven science" and reported data". It cannot be trusted.
I was helping my father with his off-breed gasoline station in South Lake Tahoe when the gasoline jumped from twenty-nine, to thirty-five, then to fifty eight cents per gallon. The date? May 1972.
Another of my favorite sayings...
"Never try to BS the size of the fish to folks who live along the river"
Specifically not referring to you sir Burningman. I am referring to your "sources"
Just got through Tweddle-dee-de'ing" a note to an "Expert San Francisco Native" about her effusive memories about a particular "1951" memorable picture of a classic San Francisco event. In the background was a shiny new 1956 Ford Victoria.
Swallow "expert opinion (even mine)" with more than one grain of salt. It'll help keep you from looking like a horse's patootie when correct facts are presented.
I became a genuine cynic when I first traveled extensively through this country. I learned to avoid tourist areas. The one's that had amazing numbers of vacationing CIA agents, ex-Vietnam era Huey door gunners, and millionaire heirs traveling incognito.
Again, Burningman, no slight on your parts, The BULL #######'s make up compelling fairy tales.
My ten dollar per hour process operator wage at Shell Oil pays thirty three dollars per hour today. My eighteen dollar per shop labor hour rate in 1979 has nine more years to go...
I bet you three to one NONE of those people were out of grade school, shoot maybe not even born when 1970 rolled around.
This is NUTSO! Rancho Cordova near Sacramento, AUGUST FIFTEEN NINETEEN SEVENTY ONE. Regular leaded gasoline
FOURTEEN
POUNT
NINE
CENTS
PER GALLON
Flying A Station Clayton Rd, Concord CA. 31.9 cents per gallon until Flying A sold the Tidewater Refinery.
You hit the nail precisely on the head why I despise today's "Proven science" and reported data". It cannot be trusted.
I was helping my father with his off-breed gasoline station in South Lake Tahoe when the gasoline jumped from twenty-nine, to thirty-five, then to fifty eight cents per gallon. The date? May 1972.
Another of my favorite sayings...
"Never try to BS the size of the fish to folks who live along the river"
Specifically not referring to you sir Burningman. I am referring to your "sources"
Just got through Tweddle-dee-de'ing" a note to an "Expert San Francisco Native" about her effusive memories about a particular "1951" memorable picture of a classic San Francisco event. In the background was a shiny new 1956 Ford Victoria.
Swallow "expert opinion (even mine)" with more than one grain of salt. It'll help keep you from looking like a horse's patootie when correct facts are presented.
I became a genuine cynic when I first traveled extensively through this country. I learned to avoid tourist areas. The one's that had amazing numbers of vacationing CIA agents, ex-Vietnam era Huey door gunners, and millionaire heirs traveling incognito.
Again, Burningman, no slight on your parts, The BULL #######'s make up compelling fairy tales.
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