AlamoShooter Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 I remember paying under .30 centes per gallon. And latter when the price went sky high to .75 cents 1973? 74? and spending $5.00 a week for gass to get the 20+ miles to school What is the lowest you remembers paying? The gas pumps could not go over .99 c Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vlad Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 (edited) Just curious, in what year did you pay $0.30? Btw, adjusted for inflation $0.75 in 1974 is $2.87 today. $0.75 in 1973 would be $3.19 today. The lowest I remember paying was $99 circa 1992 but thats when I started driving. Edited December 30, 2005 by Vlad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimel Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 Lowest I can recall is .359. That would be the late 60's and I remember Dad bitching about it. Of course I think he made like $6K a year then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XRe Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 The lowest I remember paying was $99 circa 1992 but thats when I started driving. Now *that's* expensive gas!!! Lowest I remember paying was around $.65 in the late-ish 90s in the Atlanta area - it only lasted for about a week, too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 I remember my dad filling up the Chevy Impala for 19 cents a gallon in 1965 and getting pages and pages of Green Stamps too. Heck, the attendant even cleaned the windows all the way around and checked the oil level and tire pressure too ;-) Those really were the days and they are not coming back ;-( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ong45 Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 I remember paying under .30 centes per gallon. And latter when the price went sky high to .75 cents 1973? 74? and spending $5.00 a week for gass to get the 20+ miles to school What is the lowest you remembers paying? The gas pumps could not go over .99 c Damn, your really ageing yourself Jamie Sub dollar gas is as far as i remember. James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BSeevers Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 (edited) .23 remember a fun time called "Gas Wars"? Where stations lowered prices hourly. I was a kid not driving though. I think, the memory fades with age. Edited December 30, 2005 by BSeevers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ipscron2000 Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 I remember either .48 or .65 cents a gallon back around 1975. I was putting some gas in my brothers snowmobile. I wasnt't driving then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
San_Esteban Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 When I started driving in '61 regular cost 21.9 a gallon. When we took the cars up to Martin to race, we filled them with Sunoco 260 at 34.9 a gallon. In '65, when I was stationed in Germany, Regular at the QM station on base cost 17 cents. Of course, over there cigarettes cost 19 cents a pack and a Lowenbrau at the NCO club was 15 cents, but that's an entirely different thread. Later, Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dajarrel Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 I worked at a "Spur" gas station in junior high school in the mid-sixties. We pumped "regular" for $.28/gal and "premium" for $.32/gal. Sometime during that time, a convienence store a couple of blocks away started selling gas across the street from another gas station. They got into gas wars with each other. I remember my Daddy filling up a 55 gal drum in the back of his pickup at $.12-.15 a gal. It was like Mr. Seevers said, prices were changing hourly. dj Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herky Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 13.9, 1970, Norfolk VA, "gas war" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azone41 Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 1970 I was paying 21 cents a gallon in Waco Texas. I can remember my Dad payin 19 cents. Could fill up my 63 Mercury Comet for like 3.25 and my motorcycle for 35 cents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tightloop Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 1959 filled up the Impala with .19 per gal gas... many greens stamps and full service too...WOW those really were the days.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlamoShooter Posted December 30, 2005 Author Share Posted December 30, 2005 Just curious, in what year did you pay $0.30? It seams like it was 1969 lived on a good size pice of land, & had a motor cycle. my Dad let me drive it out on the paved road to the 'country store to get some gas = 'so he wouldn't have to take me', I paid extra to get the premum stuff, but it had water in and I barley got back home. had to clean out my carb, the guy at the store insisted his gas was fine. I paid .35cents to get the good stuff and it craped my carb. That kind of digs at me today I got two gallons and 1/3 of it was brown water, I had to work over an hour to make that much. Ong 45 your right I should have kept my mouth shut ,, like most always. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vlad Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 1959 filled up the Impala with .19 per gal gas...many greens stamps and full service too...WOW those really were the days.. Actually thats one of things that always surprises me when people say it. I live in NJ where full survice is mandated by the state. Yup, I am not to be trusted to pump my own gas. I moved to the US in 1991 and lived in NJ since, but I ALWAYS forget to get out of the car when I travel out of state. I have to say that it irks me that the state mandates it but boy do I like full services when its raining or its colder then then heck. Oh and .19 in 1959 is 1.23 today. Last years gas prices? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tightloop Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 You know people are never satisfied with how price increases, regardless of how little it might be... In 1965 when I started working, I made 425 a month...went to college and paid my own way and rented an apt and still had money left at months end..Now I make a bit more, but have about the same left at months end..go figure..LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew_Mink Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 In 2001 I bought my first ever brand new vehicle, and one of, if not the first tank of gas was .78 cents per gallon for premium (93). There was a good gas price dip around that time I recall, soon to go away! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LPatterson Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 In 1956 I bought my first car, a used 51 Ford and gas was .25 unless you could find 2 stations in a gas war then it was 'how low can you go'. In 1962 in Germany I got the same quartermaster gas ration for my Harley that a Volkswagon got, 25 gallon per month at .20 a gallon. Local gas was about .75 a liter. My new loaded 65 Mustang cost $2500. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Run n Gun Posted December 31, 2005 Share Posted December 31, 2005 I remember gassing up my ’66 GTO (389, Tri-Power, 4-speed) in Long Beach, CA for 26.9 for high-test. That had to be about 1970 or so… Ed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted December 31, 2005 Share Posted December 31, 2005 There was a time when a pound of ground beef, a pack of cigarettes and a gallon of gas were someplace between $0.25 and $0.29. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
21 shooter Posted December 31, 2005 Share Posted December 31, 2005 I can remember getting el-cheapo gas for .25. Of course, I was bagging groceries for $1.60 an hour and lived at home at the time. My Dad told me that I "had it made and didn't know it". As always, he was right! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LJE Posted December 31, 2005 Share Posted December 31, 2005 1966, eastern Pa. .... .23 a gallon for high test (we didn't use the cheap crap). Four kids and a 57 Chevy, each of use tossed in .25 and we we good to cuise for the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Posted December 31, 2005 Share Posted December 31, 2005 http://www.postcarbon.org/book/print/242 I recently read "Twlight in the Desert", by Matthew Simmons. I was an oil field production foreman for 3 years, so the technical parts of the book were expecially enjoyable to me. This guy has an MBA from Harvard, owns his own investment bank that specializes in energy, and is an advior to President Bush. Mr. Simmons recently sort of "noticed by accident" that all the papers being published by Saudi petroleum engineers seem to cover topics related to declining production. While the Saudi gvt maintains that all is well (pun intended), the unofficial technical papers presented at world-wide conferences say otherwise. In my opinion, The House of Saud is kind of like an lawyer who has lived in the same house his whole life and is a walking encyclopedia on plumbing problems, yet claims that he has never personally experienced any. I caution anyone who decides to investigate the concept of "Peak oil" that there are a lot of dooms-day prognosticators out there. It's a little like Y2K in that regard. Like Mr. Simmons, I remain optomistic that we will find ways to cope. It isn't the end of the world, just the end of the age of cheap oil. Change always comes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Hostetter Posted January 1, 2006 Share Posted January 1, 2006 I can remember filling up my 1956 Chevy at about $.17 a gallon in Southern Cal in the late 60's............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted January 1, 2006 Share Posted January 1, 2006 Jeez, this thread sure brought the 'old' folks out of the woodwork....... Man, are we great, or what...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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