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Posted: 7/25/2016 9:11:57 AM EDT
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I can remember gas under .20 cents / gal when I was a little kid. It was a big damn deal when it hit .50 cents and when it hit $1 the pumps couldn't do that and it was sold by the half-gallon. Yep...and "Gas Wars". When the delivery truck brought a gas station's allotment for the week/month/whatever, the gas station had to take delivery even if their tanks weren't empty yet. If you had a gas station across the street from another brand's gas station, they would get in a "Gas War" at the end of the month near delivery because they had to empty their tanks for their next shipment. My dad and his brother owned the Fina ® gas station at Main & Broadway in our little town (now suburbia) and I remember gas hitting $0.19 - $0.17 per gal. (yes...17 cents a gallon) |
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Posted: 7/25/2016 9:13:46 AM EDT
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The lowest I paid for gas was $.47/gal in 86 or 87. Two corner gas station/convenience stores were having a price war.
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Posted: 7/25/2016 9:14:12 AM EDT
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68 cents or so in south Ga. in late 90s sometime was the cheapest I saw/paid. It was 99' that it bottomed out I believe. |
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Posted: 7/25/2016 9:17:32 AM EDT
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I remember 25 to 35 cents. Pack of smokes cost the same. Yeah! I quit smoking when cigarettes hit $1/pack...that was just too damn much and most of it was tax money anyway. I said that was enough. |
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Posted: 7/25/2016 9:18:15 AM EDT
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Yes. In the late ninety's I saw it for .739/gallon in OKC.
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Posted: 7/25/2016 9:19:02 AM EDT
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I do.
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Posted: 7/25/2016 9:21:15 AM EDT
[#7]
Sure--Summer of '99.
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Posted: 7/25/2016 9:43:43 AM EDT
[#8]
Yup, I was driving in the 90s and I remember 80 cents a gallon gas.
Good times! |
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Posted: 7/25/2016 9:44:23 AM EDT
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circa 86'-'87, I remember a gas war going as low as $.68 |
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Posted: 7/25/2016 9:45:45 AM EDT
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ETA...Nevermind...didn't read the OP
I remember them being that low but when I starting driving it was about a buck. |
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Posted: 7/25/2016 9:48:44 AM EDT
[#11]
.33 a gal for many years
.03 a gal in Texas during gas war |
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Posted: 7/25/2016 9:49:23 AM EDT
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Have a receipt somewhere from 98, $0.85/gal.
I don't have a good memory for gas prices really. I remember paying $1.45 in Beeville TX in March 2002. $3.90 for diesel in Shawnee OK in May 2007. Cheapest I've paid in the last few years was around $1.40 with a 30 cent discount earlier this year. |
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Posted: 7/25/2016 9:49:38 AM EDT
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Gas war in S. Texas in the early 60's, I paid .05 cents/gallon.
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Posted: 7/25/2016 9:52:17 AM EDT
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Yes, but I was only 5 or 6 yrs old. I was driving when it jumped to 95 cents.
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Posted: 7/25/2016 10:03:01 AM EDT
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Around 1988-1989, there was a brief moment in time when gas was $0.69/gal, a 12-pack of Milwaukee's Best frequently went on sale for $3.15 and a pack of Magna smokes cost $0.67.
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Posted: 7/25/2016 10:16:16 AM EDT
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Yes and MUCH lower. I can remember not being able to put $5 worth of gas in my TR-4A.
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Posted: 7/25/2016 10:17:18 AM EDT
[#17]
The lowest historical gas prices are happening today. Adjusted for money printing, gas has never been cheaper. Also, that is based off government money printing numbers, which are underestimated to say the least.
Graph: http://zfacts.com/gas-price-history-graph |
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Posted: 7/25/2016 10:21:29 AM EDT
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I remember when they had to go to selling gasoline by the liter for a period of time because the pumps couldn't be set for over 99.999 cents per gallon.
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Posted: 7/25/2016 10:21:53 AM EDT
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Thirteen cents a gallon in Arkansas as we were driving cross country when my Dad was getting out of the Army in 1963. 29 years total - if he wanted 30 it was Vietnam or go home. He went home.
I started pumping gas at local stations at 19c a gallon and at one place just working two nights a week pumped over 200,000 gallons for 24.9. That was the early 70s. $5 would get you a full tank in a '66 Mustang and you could commute all week to college and home daily. I calculated that I would never use 200k gallons in my life. Now its like $20-40 depending on 1.79 to 2.49 and I moved to cars getting 22+ so it's every ten days. I have only paid over $3 once. Yet many of the neighbors and coworkers are now buying 3/4 ton diesel Bro Trucks and you never hear them complain about that costing even more. Of course the $45 fuel filters a half dozen times a year are the icing on the cake, much less the three gallon oil changes every 3,000 miles. And its just something to drive to work in. The beds are never used. |
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Posted: 7/25/2016 10:28:08 AM EDT
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About $0.25/gallon when I was buying gas for my lawnmower. Was up to about $0.40 when I started driving, I traded my T-Bird in for a VW Beetle when gas hit $1/gal.
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Posted: 7/25/2016 10:28:48 AM EDT
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.50 in the early 70's. Everyone in the car would pitch in a dollar and you'd have a 1/2 tank of gas. Oil crisis hit and it shot you to $1 a gal....which is the equivilant of $5.77 today. So at .50 it was about $2.90 a gal.
So to answer your question gas is the cheapest I've ever seen when one considers inflation. |
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Posted: 7/25/2016 10:30:17 AM EDT
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Someone mentioned glasses with a fillup. Does anyone remember getting S&H green stamps?
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Posted: 7/25/2016 10:30:59 AM EDT
[#23]
I remember 68 cents. My mom giving me a $10 to fill up her car and having change left over.
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Posted: 7/25/2016 10:35:46 AM EDT
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I started driving when $10 bucks was more than enough to fill up my old 67 Buick Wildcat.
It held a LOT of gas. 23 gallons if I recall right. Then again, at 10mpg, it needed it. |
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Posted: 7/25/2016 10:49:32 AM EDT
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LOL....try 27.9 cents a gallon. It was still under 40 cents a gallon when I turned 16.  |
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Posted: 7/25/2016 10:53:07 AM EDT
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Someone mentioned glasses with a fillup. Does anyone remember getting S&H green stamps? Yep, and Gold Bond trading stamps. My mother had books I glued those things in. About once per year we would go to the S&H store and she would get a new appliance or something. We also had a Sinclair station in town that had some stamps or punch cards, we got towels and little sis had a stuffed dinosaur.
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Posted: 7/25/2016 10:55:36 AM EDT
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Do we have a election coming up or somethings?
$2.40 a gallon here 
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Posted: 7/25/2016 10:57:13 AM EDT
[#28]
Yeah. Late 90's - 2000 time frame. $0.79/gallon or so.
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Posted: 7/25/2016 10:58:11 AM EDT
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Back in 1970ish, I could fill my motorcycle up with gas, get a Double Cola, and a 3 Musketeers, and get change back from a dollar.
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Posted: 7/25/2016 10:58:25 AM EDT
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I have a question, does anyone know why they still bother with the 9/10's bullshit? Or why they ever bothered with it except for the psychological thing about getting the extra penny for all intents and purposes (or is that intensive porpoises?)?
Just round up the 1/10 of a penny and stop with the nonsense.... |
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Posted: 7/25/2016 11:00:19 AM EDT
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yes, I'm an old fart and that's a scene from one of my favorite movies Welcome to the party, pal. |
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Posted: 7/25/2016 11:01:32 AM EDT
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When I started driving it was $1.08. That was 1998.
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Posted: 7/25/2016 11:03:30 AM EDT
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It was 99' that it bottomed out I believe. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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68 cents or so in south Ga. in late 90s sometime was the cheapest I saw/paid. It was 99' that it bottomed out I believe. I remember this. We got it for 74 cents per gallon at the Tifton exit off I-75. |
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Posted: 7/25/2016 11:04:05 AM EDT
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.39 a gallon around here for a while in 1998-99 California here. It was. 99 a gallon in 1999. And now it is $2.99 yay. Fuck this place. |
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Posted: 7/25/2016 11:15:33 AM EDT
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Gas was the outrageous price of $0.60 a gallon when I started driving in 75. I remember gas being $0.030 just a couple of years before. I could still cruise all night in my 67 Mustang for $2.00 back then. |
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Posted: 7/25/2016 11:24:01 AM EDT
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Nope. Never really kept track of what gas cost until around the time I had to start buying it, which was 1986
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Posted: 7/25/2016 11:24:10 AM EDT
[#37]
In the early 1990s I could fill up my truck (16 gallons) buy a pack of smokes and a 16 oz soda and get change back from a $20.
Same thing today costs ~$50. |
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Posted: 7/25/2016 11:33:32 AM EDT
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I remember 16 fucking cents per gallon, yes 16 cents, gas stations on opposite corners competing for business, this was in the early 60's in the MidWest.
Even in the 70's I remember filling my car for three bucks and even into the mid and late 70's paying in the 44 - 49 cent range. Yes, I am old. |
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Posted: 7/25/2016 11:44:03 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember 16 fucking cents per gallon, yes 16 cents, gas stations on opposite corners competing for business, this was in the early 60's in the MidWest. Even in the 70's I remember filling my car for three bucks and even into the mid and late 70's paying in the 44 - 49 cent range. Yes, I am old. Welcome to the remember cheap gas club.  . I remember in the late 60's I could fill up my Honda mini trail for 30 cents. |
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Posted: 7/25/2016 11:47:48 AM EDT
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When I first started driving gas was .69 cents per gallon.
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Posted: 7/25/2016 11:56:30 AM EDT
[#41]
I remember it being 87-89 cents a few times when I first started driving..
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Posted: 7/25/2016 11:56:37 AM EDT
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When I first started driving in the late 90's I remember it being just under a buck a gallon.
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Posted: 7/25/2016 11:59:30 AM EDT
[#43]
When i was in High School, pissed me off when it got to $1.
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Posted: 7/25/2016 12:02:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryLearn something new every day... Cheap gas really wasnt that cheap. |
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Posted: 7/25/2016 12:06:39 PM EDT
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The lowest prices I remember were a little less than a buck. Diesel used to be even cheaper...
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Posted: 7/25/2016 12:08:36 PM EDT
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Im 56 , Id get gas for my mini-bike for $.26 a gallon
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Posted: 7/25/2016 12:08:56 PM EDT
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I'm 37, and I don't remember paying any attention to it until I was about 15 or 16.
I lived in California at the time, and I seem to recall it being around $1.20. I do remember seeing it for $0.90 while visiting family in Ohio on vacation. |
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Posted: 7/25/2016 12:12:41 PM EDT
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When I started driving at 16, ( I'm 33), gas was $.89.
MTV also played music videos. The only "reality" show at the time was The "Real" World. Cigarettes were $2 and so were 40s. |
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Posted: 7/25/2016 12:17:40 PM EDT
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Learn something new every day... Cheap gas really wasnt that cheap. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Learn something new every day... Cheap gas really wasnt that cheap. The dollar had more purchasing power. Fucking assholes and their "managed" economy. |
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Posted: 7/25/2016 12:24:03 PM EDT
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In the 90s when I had a salmon boat, gas on the water was so expensive compared to gas station prices it was worth taking the boat out of the water and trailer it to the gas station. Now gas at the pump is more than double what I refused to pay at the marina. We could troll all day for $20 in fuel cost. |
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