Google Oil

Another ingenious Google tool. You can check out gas prices--I'm looking at UK--going back to the 19th century with relevant news articles and documentation right at your fingerprints. Neat! If things are bad now, they were positively dismal in 1948.

Funny tidbit:

"The trial was scheduled for Oct. 2. Judge Lindley said he would set another date later. The Danville jurist was appointed to preside in place of Judge Patrick T. Stone, who heard the first case in which 12 major oil companies and five individuals were convicted of fixing midwestem gasoline prices. The second indictment charged conspiracy to fix margins of profit for gasoline jobbers."

-- Freeport Journal-Standard Wednesday, August 23, 1939