"Everyone Likes That Little Something Extra"

[PufferBluntman]

Trollface, lol

[drunkenboxer1985]

Isn't it great that we have the federal reserve to make sure the value of the dollar keeps plummeting so everything costs more and more. few more years and we can use dollar bills as kindling to keep warm like eastern europe after WWII

[victor2cutube]

Not sure when this ad came out but when I was a kid they would give out all sorts of gifts to get u to buy their gas and there would be gas wars, competing SERVICE stations would lower their prices till somebody gave up. I can recall where the gas would go down to 10 or 11 cents a gallon. it was a real shock when gas went up to 25 cents and never came down and this wasn't that long ago. baby boomers remember.

[CheeezMaster]

typical post -edward bernays style advertising.

[wordavee]

How come peterol is never on sale, or BYGOF!??

[vjd55]

WOW that anthropomorphized sign at the end is creepy...

[kotramif]

wow. very much so.

[heinj98]

old people are like walking, talking, breathing encyclopedias as long as they've managed to retain their mental faculties. Us young pups can learn quite a lot from them. They told me of a great, quiet place to get laid(get u a blanket and go out to the cemetary), and how to avoid getting STD's(cleaning your plumbing with vinegar). You can't even buy information like that... ;-)

[heinj98]

They told me things like how they used to make oil filters for their vehicles out of toilet paper rolls, and all sorts of things.

[heinj98]

They can also tell you all the funny things they witnessed from foreign prostitutes. You can't even imagine the things that can be done with a banana, and I'm not going to go into it here. LOL.

[heinj98]

My boss tells me his experience at the 38th parallel. He's 78. There'd be these blown out buildings with bullet holes and bomb holes in the exterior you could walk through and on the inside they were serving food and stuff. He's told me that the Korean war solved nothing. He said that nearly 60 years later, American troops are still there. He told me of the time he got lucky. He was supposed to drive the lead supply truck in the convoy, but he was hurt and he wasn't allowed to go.

[heinj98]

The Koreans blew up the lead convoy truck and went down the line killing everybody behind the lead truck. The narrow mountain roads caused those behind the lead convoy truck to be sittin ducks. Boss got lucky cuz he was hurt and wasn't allowed to run the supplies. He said that he didn't care who u was, when those tanks fired off your heart would skip a beat because you couldn't see the tanks cuz of camo, and you didn't know if it was the enemy firing on you or ur side firing on them.

[heinj98]

He's also said that I know all I need to know about the government and reading about it is only going to piss me off. He said the politicians are corrupt and you know it, why waste your time on reading about it. You can't do anything about it and all it's going to do is piss you off.

[creten69]

an american can do things in the home of the free and land of the BRAVE.Noone is brave,if you take shit away,then you get instant bravery,like tv,porn, football,and fast food.

[heinj98]

Most of my friends are above 60 eventhough I'm 26. It's funny when they tell me the price of old things. They used to be able to buy a hamburger and fries for a dime and a coke for a penny or two extra. They tell me of when a bottle of pop was 10 cents and you could redeem the bottle for 5 cents. They tell me that gas was under 50 cents a gallon and they worked for 50 cents an hour or in some cases for $30 a week. Man, hard to believe.

[heinj98]

They tell me of the time 3 dimes could get you into the movie theater and buy a coke, popcorn, a candy bar, and about all you could want during a movie. They tell me of how they'd go out the day they wanted to see the movie and collect 6 pop bottles and go to the movies. How things have changed....

[heinj98]

There's downsides though. They had to walk or ride their bicycles everywhere they went most usually, and their idea of air conditioning was sleeping with the windows open or on a cot out in the yard at night. You had to dust the snow off the outhouse crapper to drop off a load, and you had to heat bath water in buckets and dump 'em into the tub.

[heinj98]

Pretty wild to think how much the industrialized world has changed in the past 3/4 of a century.

[Beadbud5000]

Nope, I don't think gas will ever be low again. Changing our mind set...

[photofu]

damn 18cents a gallon. geez i wish things were such as this now.

[BobForehead]

brilliant!

[DillonX]

At one time we had Major National Oil Companies.

Now, the Majors are International & if we let them drill off-shore or in Alaska they'd just as soon sell to India or China as the USA.

People say WE need to drill our oil here.

Some countries DO DRILL AND SELL THEIR SURPLUS -- BUT PPL NEED TO LEARN WE DON'T OPERATE THAT WAY HERE!

[dan892k7]

In Britain it is now £6 a gallon, that's the equivalent of 12 USD :-|

Aargh!!

[NotAshamed2bWhite]

I think Brits put up with too much BS before they decide to fight back. If gas was 12$US in America, there would be civil war.

[dan892k7]

yeah, we are very understated people. We like to see if things just run their course an when they don't we're just like... bugger -_-. lol

It doesn't help though with the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, our oil largely came from there so now that we can't have it anymore the price has pretty much doubled!! Petrol was 75-80p a litre before the war, that's about $1.50, it's now £1.20, which is about $2.40

[victor2cutube]

not everyone owns a car or needs a car in Britian.. they have public transportation. in the US we don't have public transportation except in a few older cities. we also drive several times more per person than other countries. I wish we had public transportation.

[NotAshamed2bWhite]

A lot of things have gone downhill since those days: Gas was cheap, there was no such thing as "self-serve" stations, and the cars were made-in-America.

[gmfutube]

Things went wrong in those days of cheap gas. The public was fooled into moving to suburbia and building houses & cars bigger than they needed. Cheap gas kept people from investing in public transport or sensible developement.

We are now paying the price.

None of this was accidental. The GI home loan program required Vets buy New houses. Those new homes were in suburbia - providing many new customers for gasoline.

[Whoo69]

How many gas things did they have at each Esso station? Was it really only 2??

[gmfutube]

Yes it was usually only two pumps - regular and premium.

When you pulled in 2 guys came running out, one pumped your gas and the other cleaned your windshield and check the oil and tire pressure.

You paid the pump jockey and he brought your change, and usually trading stamps!

[victor2cutube]

lol..I remember all that.. if that happened today people would be calling the cops

[Whoo69]

"The bow wow?" Lol! Just call it a dog

[Whoo69]

Ugh. crappy dog in the commercial for the lose. "Lanya"? The South used to call "something extra" "lanya"?? Sounds like a foreign language.

[gmfutube]

Langiappe (pronounced "lan-yap") in Louisiana means "a little something extra".

It is a foriegn language - French.

[UcanbeGOD]

So if I went to a hooker in Louisiana and got a handjob I could say "How about a little lanyap baby? ....I will remember that.

[gmfutube]

You could, and the langiappe would probably be a nice slap across the face.

[Whoo69]

Ads back then were a lot cornier than today, but at least it felt like they actually gave a shit about customers. Now, companies will make the craziest commercials w/ the craziest claims just to sell stuff. They'll have people getting so excited about a product, it's as if they just got a BJ.

[joanswitches]

It starts out sounding like an Andy Rooney segment.

[righteouspolitics80]

that esso sign looked demonic lol. gravel needs to team up with nader baldwin kucinich paul mckinney and take our country back! the people will follow! we support the nid4. we can't allow them to fix the elections or halt the elections due to a planned war. people need to to unite.

[Crunchybear1]

I supported Gravel when he was running for both the Democrat and Libertarian nomination. Its a shame to see even the Libertarians because fascists sell outs electing the Nazi bob Bar.

[PeaceCzar]

Time to Nader it up, yo.

[gravel2008]

No.

[PeaceCzar]

Oh.

My comment was meant to be lined up as a specific response (I think), but YouTube misplaced it.

C'est la vie.

[katuru1]

@blackturtleus From what I've seen it looks like the media legitimized the territorial claims of Georgia. Instead of saying invasion, they were talking about territorial claims. I would like to hear what Gravel thinks about it, but it sounds like once the media sees anything anti-X when it comes to a country they dislike (eg. any anti-Russian matter because they dislike Russia) they like it. I don't like the Russian government, but the demonization is excessive.

[katuru1]

We need to get off of carbon now.

P.S. I support Gravel in the Al Arian matter. Gravel was citing a case where people used very aggressive tactics against Bank of America. I think he got carried away with his emotions because the children of a bigot like Kromberg aren't necessarily bigoted. But what Gravel said was mild in comparison to the craziness of other politicians (George Allen, McCain, Obama, Hillary, Sarkozy...). The comments on fox news made me want to scream and O'Reilly is a loon.

[MiGP1981]

You watch Fox News, now that's a scream..

[katuru1]

I don't watch Fox News. I saw a news article about the Gravel/Kromberg/Al Arian controversy that happened to be on fox news (I was given a link), and the comments made me want to scream because they were so hysterical, so neocon...

This video is about the good old days of petroleum. It's time to make hydrogen fuel for planes now and get off of petroleum.

[M5Beast]

18 cents is about what gas is in venezuela right now, no? Ship our SUVs to Chavez!

NOT!

[Rahab111222]

Esso almost sounds like exon

[gmfutube]

Humble Oil became Esso, which became Exxon, now ExxonMobile.

[blackturtleus]

I'd love to hear Gravel's take on the Georgia/South Ossetia/Russia situation!!!

[NatureLegalized]

I sure don't want any more whatever the cost! Wanting solar to charge the electric with.

Meanwhile favoring the Algae/Hemp for fuel needs.

[funkalunatic]

The baker looks like Ron Paul.

[TheGiantRobot]

Yeah, I did a double take there.

[Fullmetalpizza]

Yeah he kinda does :\

[ChannelMikeG]

That is one ominous ending.

[gravel2008]

It's going to hunt OUR dreams, that's for sure.

[DecentralizedTommy]

do you have mike on O'Reilly, the full clip?

I post prt of it, ll I could find. I'm looking for the whole thing. send link, if you have one plz

or post it, thanks

[gravel2008]

We've got the death threats that O'Reily viewers left on our answering machines, but no luck on the video yet. As soon as we've got it, we'll put it up.

[PeaceCzar]

ADORABLE!

[PersonalJesus348]

Aptera Motors is making some head way though. 300 mpg on their new model.

[gravel2008]

Scary face at the end.

[ChannelMikeG]

Happy motoring!

[jonperry]

Indeed.  Utterly terrifying!

[JimmerSD]

I thought it looked a lot like Mike! ;)

[qernst8]

Damn...gas sucks lol. Methinks I want an electric car for my next vehicle.

[TexanCyclist]

Sadly, I remember that commercial. Paid .25 first time I bought gas, unleaded. Regular was .27. Attendant filled my gas can for me!