With apologies to Europeans, and others with much higher fuel prices. I looked at a graph of crude oil prices and noticed that the last time they fell (consistently) was throughout 2001. Must have seemed quite peculiar to buy a Prius in that setting. But since a few of us did, I decided to create a poll that unabashadely favors Prius oldsters - like me! So get out your fuel purchase logs, and sigh wistfully for the good old days - even if they weren't very long ago. I'll vote first. January 1, 2002, 87.9 cents per gallon.
I remember when you doubled the price on the pump because the old mechanical pumps only went to 99.9 cents per gallon. I even saved a few cents by showing the dealer that the pump was set higher than half the price per gallon.
US dollars per non-imperial gallons was the idea, and purchased for Prius purposes. For me the attached crude oil price history puts the beginning of the "hybrid vehicle era" into perspective.
I need to do my vote over. I trimmed it to the Prius years. Less than 9 years ago, I was paying $0.89 on a bad day...
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(tochatihu @ Mar 31 2006, 12:58 PM) [snapback]232923[/snapback]</div> That's NYMEX Sweet... I think the more appropriate indicators are either Brent Crude or Western something or other.... h34r: ...also, some usually correct for shipment cost; like what is the cost per barrel if you pulled up to the port, so to speak... Then again, they're probably in the same ball park so who cares... don't mind me, I'm nuts. h34r:
According to my chart (I had to look it up) http://gunn.ath.cx/projects/prius/gas.html , I've never paid below $2!
I was upset because in college gas went over $0.50/gallon. Then I got even more upset when it went over $1.00/gallon. Then I got even more upset when it went over $1.50/gallon. Well, I guess you get the picture.
