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Posted: 8/17/2018 6:32:10 PM EDT

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I'm 49. I don't member.

Maybe I wasn't of gas buying age at the time.

And half my years were overseas. Maybe that explains it.

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5 francs a liter.

Posted: 8/17/2018 6:32:42 PM EDT

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Lowest I remember buying gas was in the .70 cent range.

Posted: 8/17/2018 6:33:50 PM EDT

[#3]

Shit, I 'member trading stamps from the service stations.

Think I still have a punchbowl set around here somewhere from Union 76

Posted: 8/17/2018 6:36:36 PM EDT

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In the early 1990s I was at Pendelton and I could travel from there to Cleveland (home) for $79.

2,400 miles / 98 cents per gallon / 30 miles per gallon.

Posted: 8/17/2018 6:36:58 PM EDT

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I remember when gas was 19.9 and $5.00 would fill up your car, buy you a Nehi grape and a Moon Pie, your oil was checked, windshield washed....and you still had change coming from your $5.00 bill.

Posted: 8/17/2018 6:39:41 PM EDT

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I’m 30, turn 31 next month. The first summer I had my license it was regularly $1.10-1.20 but did spike below $1 a couple times. That would have been in 2005. Then in 2008 when I was driving 120 miles a day for collage it was around $4. That sucked.

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How'd that work out for you?

Posted: 8/17/2018 6:40:14 PM EDT

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$3.00 to fill up the 10 gallon tank in my VW Beetle. That was enough gas for a week.

Posted: 8/17/2018 6:40:46 PM EDT

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5 francs a liter.

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In 1988 it was 50p a liter in England. Gas on base was $1.25 if you had a gas ration coupon.

Posted: 8/17/2018 6:42:19 PM EDT

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Arco Salem Oregon..
1989
91 cents for super.

Posted: 8/17/2018 6:42:47 PM EDT

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i remember - dad let me pump it.. he bitches incessantly when it went over a dollar. like it was the end of the world or some shit. now 3 and a half bucks is normal. fucking democrats.

Posted: 8/17/2018 6:42:56 PM EDT

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25 cents or 35 cents (can't remember) in 1975 in Hawaii.

Posted: 8/17/2018 6:43:27 PM EDT

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Last time I bought gas under $1 was in Cheyenne Wyoming.

Posted: 8/17/2018 6:43:28 PM EDT

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I remember when people talked about the day when gas will be $1 per gal.

Posted: 8/17/2018 6:45:00 PM EDT

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17cents a gallon during the 1960s,when they were having gas wars in Hollywood,Fl...regular price was 25.9 cents

Posted: 8/17/2018 6:45:38 PM EDT

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25.9 for regular. 27.9 for ethyl

Posted: 8/17/2018 6:45:53 PM EDT

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In the 90s.

Posted: 8/17/2018 6:46:10 PM EDT

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I remember when my father was pissed that $5 didn't fill the tank anymore, and it was $10. And the gas stations updated their sign for 3 digits. First they started with a static painted 1.

Posted: 8/17/2018 6:46:33 PM EDT

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In 1978-79 I worked for Sunoco changing the mechanical computers so they would read over $1. Member when they read 1/2 price on them and you had to double it?

Posted: 8/17/2018 6:47:32 PM EDT

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I was driving an F250 Ford and I could fill it up for just over $5.00.
I miss that truck.

Posted: 8/17/2018 6:49:56 PM EDT

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.27 cents a gallon to fill my mini bike in 1971

Posted: 8/17/2018 6:52:01 PM EDT

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In 1990 I can remember getting regular unleaded here in PA for .76/gallon.

Posted: 8/17/2018 6:53:40 PM EDT

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When I was 13 or so I remember filling a gas can for my dirt bike and it was about 15 cents a gallon for regular and about 18 for premium. And premium was 101-102 octane. When I got my first car gas was still only about 23 cents a a gallon for premium. No one cared about how much gas a vehicle used then other than it's range. No one would pay more for a vehicle that used less gas because gas was a small part of the overall cost of ownership. I remember my Dad scoffing at some salesman who tried to sell him a smaller engine based on gas mileage. Dad whipped out a pencil and paper, did some quick scribbling and told him the difference between the two over the life of the vehicle was a few hundred dollars.

Posted: 8/17/2018 6:55:04 PM EDT

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I remember it being 35 cents in one summer, Pop let me top off the tank every time we headed out for picnics on weekends.
Mid 1970s.

Posted: 8/17/2018 6:56:00 PM EDT

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I worked part-time as a "Pumper" at a Gulf station in Detroit in the early 1960s. They had a sub-regular brand called Gulftane whicvh was .229 a gallon, Good Gulf---which was regular----was .249 a gallon, with their premium brand, Gulf No Nox, generally selling for .299 a gallon-----and if you filled-up your vehicle, 8 gallons minimum, you also got 2 free tumbler-type glasses.

Posted: 8/17/2018 6:56:53 PM EDT

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I don't think it hit $1.00 in my AO till around 1980 or '81.

Posted: 8/17/2018 6:59:50 PM EDT

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I started driving in 1974 after the OPEC embargo. I do remember sub $1.00 gasoline, but thought we were about to run out.

As a kid, I remember "gas wars" where the stations all tried to undercut each other. Tried to jack up volumes for incentives. Good times!

Posted: 8/17/2018 7:01:57 PM EDT

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No
Strted driving 2006

Posted: 8/17/2018 7:02:25 PM EDT

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I have seen gasoline sell for $0.19.9 (nineteen point nine cents per gallon) back in the 1960's...and I know that I am NOT the oldest member of this esteemed forum.

Posted: 8/17/2018 7:04:55 PM EDT

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Premium gas for 25¢

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It was called Ethyl back then, not Premium

but you are dead-on right about the price, GiggleSmith

Posted: 8/17/2018 7:06:38 PM EDT

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I'm 49. I don't member.

Maybe I wasn't of gas buying age at the time.

And half my years were overseas. Maybe that explains it.

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That's crazy. I remember when I was 5 dad having us keep an eye out for gas under .25 a gallon. I don't remember if we found any but we were always looking. When I was a teenager my gas bill came to $35 one month and my grandfather just about wrung my neck. (I drove to a party on the other side of the state.

Posted: 8/17/2018 7:08:40 PM EDT

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it was .29 in the 60's

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24 cents in Oil City Pennsylvania.

Posted: 8/17/2018 7:10:35 PM EDT

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I remember when gas price changing from 18 cents to 20 cents was a disaster for my lawn mowing profit; the price of mowing didn't go up.

Posted: 8/17/2018 7:11:06 PM EDT

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I bought my first car in April 1976. Gas was around $0.58 a gallon. When up to about $0.65 a gallon not long after I got it.

Even in 1985/86 I was paying about $1.20 a gallon for premium. My 73 Laguna (350 four barrel) ran better on premium. If I had a $20 bill I could fill the tank up when it needed it. If premium was $1.20 a gallon regular unleaded was most likely just under $1 a gallon, even in 1986.

Posted: 8/17/2018 7:12:35 PM EDT

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Premium gas for 25¢

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Did they cal it Ethel gas... not to be confused with ethanol

Posted: 8/17/2018 7:13:44 PM EDT

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It really wasn't too long ago.

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I could buy gas for under a buck in the year 2000. That wasn't that long ago.

Posted: 8/17/2018 7:14:36 PM EDT

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Arco Salem Oregon..
1989
91 cents for super.

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Idk about super but the day I brought my oldest home from the hospital I wrote in his baby book gas .93 cents a gallon. He was born 5/13/1989 in Salem Oregon

Posted: 8/17/2018 7:14:45 PM EDT

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When I started driving, gasoline cost about $0.75/gallon.

Posted: 8/17/2018 7:15:51 PM EDT

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I member!

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# Metoo
I also member putting $3 of gas in my car

Posted: 8/17/2018 7:17:04 PM EDT

[#39]

last time i remember filling up for less than a dollar a gallon it was '98 or '99 at the circle K by my ex-in-law's house, filling up my '98 big block, which needed gas a lot

course, i had a company gas card back then so i never paid much attention, don't know why i remember that so clearly

Posted: 8/17/2018 7:18:41 PM EDT

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Cheapest gas I remember as a driver was $0.679 in NC in the late 80s.

Posted: 8/17/2018 7:20:46 PM EDT

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it was .29 in the 60's

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I paid 20 cents for sub grade back in the late 60s

Posted: 8/17/2018 7:21:11 PM EDT

[#42]

.249 to .299 in the mid sixties when there wasn't a gas war. Liberty stations sold Ethyl for only .01 more and gave away candy bars, box of kleenex, or some kind of plastic tumbler. If you knew the pump guy well enough, then he was always throwing in extra stuff other people forgot to ask for.

Posted: 8/17/2018 7:24:04 PM EDT

[#43]

I remember my dad bitching about $1.20/gal and I'm 25. I do remember gas being under $1/gal.

Posted: 8/17/2018 7:24:36 PM EDT

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Yes. The old clockwork gas pumps had number wheels that displayed the price per gallon that the pump was set to. They had to stick a piece of tape in front of them with a 1 on it, because there was only two digits.