# Oil is selling in Negative Numbers

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/oil-is-selling-in-negative-numbers/163144>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [April 20, 2020, 7:43pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/oil-is-selling-in-negative-numbers/163144 "2020-04-20T19:43:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![B.L.E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@B.L.E](https://community.cartalk.com/u/B.L.E)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2020, 10:20am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/oil-is-selling-in-negative-numbers/163144/42 "2020-05-31T10:20:58Z")

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I remember working for $1.60/hour.

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**Author:** ![Whitey](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/whitey/32/24680_2.png) [@Whitey](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Whitey)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2020, 7:24pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/oil-is-selling-in-negative-numbers/163144/43 "2020-05-31T19:24:33Z")

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I recently bought gasoline for $1.65/gallon. It felt like I had traveled back in time.

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**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2020, 9:02pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/oil-is-selling-in-negative-numbers/163144/44 "2020-05-31T21:02:31Z")

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> [@B.L.E](#):
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> I remember working for $1.60/hour.

You were truly privileged to be paid that much. I got 50 cents at the greenhouse, then 85 at the restaurant, until I was able to get a summer factory job for $1.65. When we got overtime, I thought I was rich. Um let’s see think that was 1967. Cigs were $3.50 a carton, so two hours pay.

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**Author:** ![B.L.E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@B.L.E](https://community.cartalk.com/u/B.L.E)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2020, 10:24pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/oil-is-selling-in-negative-numbers/163144/45 "2020-05-31T22:24:54Z")

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Well, before I had a formal job, I spent many a day doing farm labor for my grandparents for a dollar, and mowed my other grandmother’s lawn for a quarter, with a push reel mower.  
My grandparents had a small grape orchard and on every grape vine, there seemed to be a wasp nest. I spent many an afternoon driving a John Deere A model tractor pulling a disk harrow, straw hat keeping me from getting sunburned, an old Jim Beam bottle full of drinking water on the tractor. I made enough money to keep me in .22 bullets and shotshells for hunting.

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