My Favorite Commercials » gas http://www.myfavcommercials.com Ancient Chinese Secret Huh?? Sat, 10 Apr 2010 17:51:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The Midnight Ride of Cheap Gas – Volkswagen http://www.myfavcommercials.com/2006/10/27/the-midnight-ride-of-cheap-gas-volkswagen/ http://www.myfavcommercials.com/2006/10/27/the-midnight-ride-of-cheap-gas-volkswagen/#comments Fri, 27 Oct 2006 18:13:35 +0000 thicke http://www.myfavcommercials.com/2006/10/27/the-midnight-ride-of-cheap-gas-volkswagen/ I have a Volkswagen. While I don’t plan to buy another anytime soon, this one is pretty convincing, or at least it was…

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At today’s prices, that’s like seventy something miles per gallon. On the other hand, assuming this commercial was made before 1979 ( I bet it was – If someone can date please leave a comment), it ain’t that great. I found this site, that only goes back to 1979. It’s the earliest I could find, probably because I am just to lazy to look more. According to it, the price of gas then was around 75 cents a gallon. At three cents a mile, that comes out to 25 miles per gallon. My Ford Focus gets close to 35, so that don’t sound so great. I know prices were higher right before 1979 due to the big oil embargo, but I bet this commercial predates the embargo. So what’s up with this????

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