Screen Cap O’ The Week: Gas Prices and the Rockford Files
I was screen capping some stuff for the Rockford Files awhile back and happened to catch this scene from the episode “The Dark and Bloody Ground.” Jim’s in the blue car that’s making the turn (he’s supposed to be in Arizona). What caught my eye was the gas prices at the Union76 station behind him.
Wow huh? Fifty-seven freakin’ cents! And that was 1974…during the first oil/fuel crisis following the OPEC embargo of ‘73. Of course, the difference between then and now is that it wasn’t so much that gas was outrageously expensive, it’s that it was in extremely short supply. We have yet to experience the 2008 version of gas rationing and waiting in line at the gas station to fill up on even or odd days only based on your license plate number. I ain’t sure which is worse, the $4 a gallon gas we pay now, or having to endure a true fuel shortage and I’m not sure I want to experience the shortage to find out.
Also interesting to note that, given my previous Screen Cap O’ The Week featured Bill Maxwell from The Greatest American Hero, the street that Jim is turning onto is…Palmdale Ave.
