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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by Train Guy 3</i> <br /><br />[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by edblysard</i> <br /><br />Time goes on, thats how... <br />Whats funny is, 20 years from now, my kids are going to be saying <br />"Dad, was gas really that cheap when you were a kid?"... <br />Lordy, it goes by quick... <br /> <br />Ed <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />........ if you think that was cheap, you should ask grandpa about gas. <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />Kinda puts things in prespective...... <br />It really hit home when my grandpa started telling me that his dad never actually learned to drive a car..... <br />He used horse and buggy and later streetcars to get around, imagine going your whole life and never driving anywhere......life was simple then. <br /> <br />He was dead before the widespread use of the personal automobile.....it wasn't THAT long ago. <br /> <br />Speaking if diesel, another thing I noticed about it is that the price doesn't seem to fluctuate as much.... with regular gas going up and down by as much as 10 cents a litre some days (here in BC) I notice that those stations selling diesel didn't change the prices nearly as often. <br /> <br />Sometimes the station would even go weeks at a time and never change the price, and yet here's regular gas bobbing up and down like there's no tomorrow.... <br /> <br />My next veichle is either going to be a hybrid or a VW diesel car......haven't decided yet....
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