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This is weird...I know, but hopefully the "Everything Frayo Posts is stupid" rule can be negated for a second.
I was wondering if there are any songs that talk about gas prices from the era where they were actually high..... from the 70s/80s.

I think that it would be neat to hear someone complain about gas prices 20+ years ago....
I dont know..call me weird.

They dont have to be about the prices...just have a lyric or two that is about them. I think this would be kinda interesting a little bit nostalgic....or another chance for the board to give Frayo a middle finger.

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The Kinks - A Gallon Of Gas is the only one I can think of at the moment.

http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Kinks/ ... f-Gas.html

Executive Suite - When the Fuel Runs Out from 1973. I don't remember much about it, although I think the singer was hoping the gas would run out so his girlfriend would stay home.

Blondie's - I'm On E is not necessarily about gas prices but came out in 77 & is about not having gas for the car...I think...[;)]

James Taylor - Traffic Jam (1977)
(sort of on topic)
-- I think James saw the future, related to the fossil fuel crisis... if only he had used the phrase "global warming" in there somewhere

(Chorus)
Damn this traffic jam
How I hate to be late
It hurts my motor to go so slow
Damn this traffic jam
Time I get home my supper'll be cold
Damn this traffic jam

Well I left my job about 5 o'clock
It took fifteen minutes go three blocks
Just in time to stand in line
With a freeway looking like a parking lot

- Chorus -

Now I almost had a heart attack
Looking in my rear view mirror
I saw myself the next car back
Looking in the rear view mirror
'Bout to have a heart attack
I said

- Chorus -

Now when I die I don't want no coffin
I thought about it all too often
Just strap me in behind the wheel
And bury me with my automobile

- Chorus -

Damn...

Now I used to think that I was cool
Running around on fossil fuel
Until I saw what I was doing
Was driving down the road to ruin

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I THINK the Barron Knights song The Topical Song was about gas prices. Not sure though.

The b-side--Boozy Nights--a great take off on Heatwaves Boogie Nights was the better tune on the disc.

In Diesel's "Sausalito Summer Night", the singer complains that he's "scraping out his bank/spend it on a Rambler with a whirlpool in the tank". (200 gallons between LA and SF.) Plus, a gasket repair is 80 bucks. [:0]