The halcyon days of the three - sport athlete are as gone as the one -
dollar gallon of gas, and even playing two varsity sports is asking a lot, so tell your dad to chill.
Not exact matches
Here is reality,...... When i was a kid, I could fill a jerry can with 5
gallons of gas, buy a pack
of smokes and still get change from a 5
dollar bill.
With
gas prices hovering around 4
dollars a
gallon, and the cost
of everything, from groceries to restaurants, having a child, or two or three, playing on sports travel team is becoming a luxury many American families can no longer afford.
He added that the majority
of the state's transportation
dollars comes from the federal budget and from the
gas tax which is 18.4 cent per
gallon.
When the rate
of inflation is figured in, however, the cost
of a
gallon of gas in 1980 was actually $ 3.12 (in 2012
dollars).
And with
gas prices south
of 2
dollars a
gallon, why not?
All
of a sudden
gas is four
dollars per
gallon and creeping up.
You'd roll into the station, ask for a «
dollar's worth», get nearly seven
gallons of gas ($ 28 worth today), and cruise until your heart was content.
The price
of gas was over three
dollars a
gallon.
When Kroger is running a 4x Fuel Points promotion on gift card purchases, I have stocked up on gift cards to places we regularly shop and dine, such as Jason's Deli, Macy's, Nordstrom, Panera, Outback and more to earn not only in - store Fuel Points that will save us up to $ 1 per
gallon of gas, but also as many as 5x points per
dollar for a «grocery» purchase on one
of my rewards cards.
When you redeem your rewards, you can get between 10 cents and up to a
dollar off per
gallon of gas.
Cardholders will earn 20 points per
dollar on purchases made in the store and 10 points per
gallon of gas.
When the price
of gas goes up to 4
dollars a
gallon, as it probbaly will this summer, you will see consumers flocking to alternate choices.
To better understand the impacts
of global freight movement, consider that the freight industry transports trillions
of dollars» worth
of goods every year to every corner
of the globe and back, largely by burning millions
of gallons of diesel fuel, which emits greenhouse
gases and other pollutants.
It would need to be high, probably in the range
of dollars and not cents per
gallon of gas to achieve kinds
of reductions that global warming alarmists think are necessary.
But what about in Turkey, where drivers pay the highest
gas prices in Europe, if not the world — the equivalent
of $ 11 per
gallon this past summer (though you get more for your
dollar at the moment)?