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From: "George Lendich" <lendich@optusnet.com.au>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
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Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: HCCi Engine Technology
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 08:25:18 +1000
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> I'll go you one or two better.  Wheelus AFB, Tripoli, Libya, 1965.  Gas
> tanked in from the U.S. $ .15c per gallon.  A quart of 30-WT oil, $.22c, 
> Pack of Salems, $ .15 per pack, $1.40 per carton.  Quart of Jack Daniels 
> at the Class VI store, $1.96.  We used to go to Italy with a suit case 
> load of cigarettes on leave, and live like kings, guess what a hotel room 
> in Rome, or Naples goes for now?
> Greg W.

Greg,
Libya - not fair!! Don't they have their own oil ?
I can quote Vietnam 68 US PX prices too but that wouldn't be fair either. 
Mind you we didn't have to pay for fuel there and then - it was all free, 
fuel, food, guns and bullets, green clothing, packs, you name it was all 
free.
There were a couple of things we had to pay for- a can of beer was 15c and a 
goffer (soft drink) was 5c. But I can't remember if that was Military 
currency or the conversion rates.
Yep! the good old days!! Try and get a goffer for 5c now!
George (down under)
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dale Rogers" <dale.r@cox.net>
> To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 8:06 AM
> Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: HCCi Engine Technology
>
>
>> George Lendich wrote:
>>>  Lynn and Bill,
>>> I googled it, which I should have done initially and some sites stated 
>>> it had been around for about 30 years. I guess they didn't really need 
>>> it then.  I tell my Son, back in 1967 I remember getting fuel for 5 
>>> cents a liter or 20 cents a gallon - he can't believe it. I guess that's 
>>> 40 years ago, but you know what I mean. Does anyone remember what it 
>>> cost in the US in 1967.
>>
>> I was pumping "regular" for ~$0.26 per gallon then.  "100 Octane" (about 
>> 93 by today's standards) was $.0.30.
>>
>> Keep in mind, that at that time, rent for three bedroom home was ~$55 per 
>> month, not the $1100 it is now, in the outer   reaches of the greater 
>> Phoenix area.  A pound of ground round - what? 12% fat? - was $0.39.  A 
>> brand new Colt m1911 was 125.00, as opposed to the ~$800 it is now.  A 
>> half gallon of milk?   Well, you know where this goes ...
>>
>> Dale R.
>> COZY MkIV #0497
>>
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