The cheapest gas price seen since age 16?

[freebullet]

Roughly 89 cents a gallon for me. How bout you?

[Iowa Fox]

During the Gas Wars $0.19

[Plate plinker]

.60¢ something already can't remember that far back.

[pressonregardless]

I remember thinking that things had gone off the rails when the station I worked at raised their price to $0.50 gal. The cheapest I can recall seeing was 23.9 a gallon.

[waynem34]

Just under a buck. Some of the gas houses would have sales at .88 or such when i was a teen. Never more than a dollar for regular. Gas is $1.95 now for regular.

[quilbilly]

During the Gas Wars $0.19 Same here. I still remember when my Dad took an older neighbor to the store and he offered to buy gas. At the gas station he said "A dollar's worth of the cheapest!".

[Uncle Jimbo]

During the Gas Wars $0.19

That was the normal price when I was 16. But the price would drop down to 12¢ to 15¢ a gallon during the gas wars. But that was 50 years ago. :sad:

[white eagle]

hate to say it but I can remember .25
smokes was .50 a pack

[opos]

Worked in a service station (yep...we even gave service) in the 50's...had 2 stations across from each other...loved the gas wars...think the lowest I ever saw was about 15 cents or so a gallon...we gave double green stamps and the guy across the street gave away dishes...bit different than today...we checked under the hood...washed the windows and checked the tires if asked...all for 15 cents a gallon...when someone came in and asked for "five" we knew it was for five gallons as $5 would not fit in the tank in those days.

[bob208]

in high school I pumped many a gallon at 27.9 remember thinking the world was going to end when it jumped to 64.9 .

[Rick Hodges]

$0.189 gas wars in the '60's common to see 0.21-0.249/gal.

[square butte]

19 cents a gallon - Dallas , TX. 21 cents a gallon 1974 - Nacogdoches, TX

[Roy Acuffff]

When in high school it was 27 cents for regular and 30 cents for premium. The lowest I ever paid was 19 cents in Missouri 1968, there was a gas war going on.

Roy

[jcwit]

$ .16 cents a gal. during gas wars in South Bend, In., I think it got below $ .20 cents a gal. at the PX's around Washington, DC in 65, & 66.

[Plate plinker]

19 cents a gallon - Dallas , TX. 21 cents a gallon 1974 - Nacogdoches, TX
God bless Texas.

[smokeywolf]

30 cents for a gallon of gas. One hour of minimum wage would buy 4 gallons of gas, and that was AFTER taxes were taken out of my check.

Pack of smokes was around 20 cents at the PX.

smokeywolf

[OptimusPanda]

I think it was around $1.75 then, I remember being able to fill my tank (it was only 10 gallons) and still have just enough for a bottle of soda.

[flyer1]

The cheapest I remember was 27.9 in 1972 in SE Minnesota and the cheapest I remember paying was thirty something a gallon. My dad talks about dating my mom in 1950 and paying 11 cents during the gas wars in central NJ.

[wlc]

Funny this comes up today. Over the weekend Smokey and the Bandit was on TV. They filmed part of the movie where I grew up in GA. I called my son in to watch a bit of it so I could show him a segment that my Dad and I got to watch being filmed and a couple of other places that were right up the road from the house. During our watching they showed the sign at a truck stop and diesel was .47 a gallon. The movie was filmed in 1977 when I was 12.

Cheapest gas I can ever remember buying was .89 a gallon. I pumped a lot at the store where I worked as a teenager for less than 1.25 a gallon.

[Houndog]

I can remember buying premium Union 76 (race car fuel in them days) for .25 a gallon! My old 55 Chevy hotrod wouldn't run on anything less!

[DLCTEX]

November 1965 I was 20 and bought gas in Witchita Falls, Texas for .099 as they were having a gas war. Normal price then was about .29 gal.

[Gator 45/70]

Think it was around .35 when I started driving.
Also it was REAL gasoline!

[koehlerrk]

Think it was around .35 when I started driving.
Also it was REAL gasoline!

THERE"S the kicker!

Sixteen... for me that was 1992... and gas, even with NY taxes was $1.19 for regular.

[Freightman]

.09 (state and fed. tax)
1956

[dragon813gt]

$.98 in the summer of 1997. Taco Bell tacos were two for a buck as well. It was a good summer to not work much. I graduated in June and it's the last time I had months off at once.

[MarkP]

Gas at $0.47 and diesel at $0.39. I remember $10 would fill my Dad's 63' Pontiac.

[tygar]

Somewhere around .15 - .17 during price wars, maybe .22 regularly, and that wasn't the low octane stuff of today.

I can remember being able to pick up pop bottles along the road to put enough gas in my 55 Ford to get to school & run around town. It was great when I could put $1 in at a time.

[KCSO]

Got a ways to go yet when I was 16 there was a gas war and it was 16 cents a gallon!

[Rattlesnake Charlie]

$.019/gal

[tryNto]

13-18¢ Gas Wars about 25¢ other wise.

[doc1876]

watched mom and dad pay 17 to 22 cents in the early sixties, I personally bought gas for 32 cents a gallon when I started driving 1972

[Calamity Jake]

.09 for the high octane during a gas war in 67, lasted almost 2 weeks, boy did do a lot of driving.

[fng]

mine's pretty cheap now, I drive a hybrid, it takes a mix.
When it's empty I put in $5 at the gas station,
and siphon the rest of the tank full at my liberal neighbors driveway.

[Harter66]

Being the whipper snapper I am , I remember vividly my Dad having a fit because he had to pay 75 cents in side for the white gas he paid 33 cents for in the pump just the week before. I also remember later on my folks being twisted up because it 65 cents . My personal best was 85 cents. About that same time we were buying 130 octane AVGAS for right at a buck a gallon.

[GaryN]

$0.22 gallon. Diesel was always cheaper.

[bassnbuck]

$ .16 cents a gal. during gas wars in South Bend, In., I think it got below $ .20 cents a gal. at the PX's around Washington, DC in 65, & 66.

I grew up there. Gas wars were great for a teenager with a couple of bucks to his name. When I moved to N Mn. in `71 gas was priced 38.9- very high.

[bubba.50]

as a teenager in the 60's gas was around $.30 a gallon. for some reason, in a town of about 1600 there was a Texaco, Amoco, Save-X, and two Esso's(Exxon to you whippersnappers). the Esso's got to feuding & started a war that all the others had to join & the price got down to 17 cents before it was all over.

[Dale in Louisiana]

25.9 cents a gallon in a gas war between two stations on opposite corners of an intersection. Normally, there were discount stations that had it for 29.9. The grocery store I worked at sold it for 31.9.

dale in Louisiana

[retread]

13.9 at gas wars otherwise about 18-19. 1964

[crazy mark]

Around $0.19.9 in the late 60's.

[starmac]

Gas was usually around 23 cents when I got my first set of wheels, but gas wars would get it down to 19 cents once in a while. I never paid any attention to the cost before that.
The lowest I ever saw was in the 80's in Austin Texas. The radio station offered a prize to the station that sold it the cheapest (one day only). Two stations got down to 0 before the day was out. lol
In the 70's I checked the air in all 4 tires, added if needed, checked the oil, added if needed and washed the windshield on a lot of cars that bought a bucks worth of gas. I had one gal that came EVERY day and got the works for 50 cents worth of gas, price at that time was 49 cents and my wages was 3 cents. lol

[tdoyka]

78 cents. we would put $5 in the tank and drive around all night. and this was in the gas guzzlers.

[CBMC]

I am 34 and gas in St Louis was 89 cents when I was 18 years old, so in 98'. That is the cheapest I remember it. It was nice filling that escort up for $9.

[MaryB]

Around .50... mid 70's... I remember digging up $3 between 2 or 3 of us and cruising town until the tank got low. 69 Olds Delta 88 4 door hard top with a 455 4 barrel was NOT good for gas mileage!

[gtgeorge]

It was around 50¢ when I was 16 but remember getting a gallon with a quarter for the lawn mower.

[bobthenailer]

The lowest i can remember was 22.9 cents per gallon including tax ! Im now 66
Here in PA we are now paying 70 cents tax per gallon . not sure if thats just state tax ! or combined state & federal tax.

[bdicki]

hate to say it but I can remember .25
smokes was .50 a pack
I remember around 26 cents, I also remember my father sending me to the store with 50 cents to buy him a pack of smokes when I was 12. They sold them to me no questions asked and I had change to buy penny candy.

[bdicki]

The lowest i can remember was 22.9 cents per gallon including tax ! Im now 66
Here in PA we are now paying 70 cents tax per gallon . not sure if thats just state tax ! or combined state & federal tax.
http://www.api.org/oil-and-natural-gas-overview/industry-economics/fuel-taxes

[dagger dog]

Pure Regular 16.9 cents a gallon, US 31 near Ft. Knox, KY 1964.

[starnbar]

It was about 0.16 or 0.18 a gallon I can't remember exactly but a dollar bill got me 5 gallons which in the dodge was a little over a quarter of a tank.

[oldarkie]

gas war 14.9 east of Warrensburg MO.1963

[bear67]

Late 50s, 17.9 to 21.9 tax included and we still used some farm gasoline--did not own diesel tractors until '64, and farm (non taxed) was usually 9-10 cents. Minimum wage .50/hr. We primarily used propane in our tractors and non taxed it was 4-6 cents delivered to our farm tanks. We ran a lot of non tax gas and propane in our farm trucks.
In '65 I took a job with U of Nev/Reno and gas in Reno was 300% of what I was paying in Texas.

[MtGun44]

When I was 16, gas was about 21.9 cents a gallon at the cheap station on a 'gas war'.
I think the normal price of leaded regular was about 24.9 or so in small town central
Florida in the middle '60s. The phony gas shortage in 1973 jumped it up to about 65
cents and that shocked us, the price almost tripled in a short time.

Imagine if gas jumped to $6 now. Same mental feeling. Remember a new VW bug was
$1800 and a nice Chevy sedan was $2500-3000.

[Smoke4320]

24.9 cents a gallon
coke was a dime and pack of crackers was 5 cents
used to ride my motorcycle all over the place on Saturdays . Stop for break twice during the day $1.00 was a full day of fun
I remember the first hardee's hamburger chain opening in Belmont NC hamburger was 33 cents

[Fergie]

Well, I'm 32, and the town I live in, and grew up in, has always run higher than the rest of the state. However, long about 1999, I remember gas being $0.89 at the local station. I could fill my 1979 Dodge Ramcharger with a 360 for cheap, considering it had a 35 gallon tank.

Most expensive was in Trona, CA during a trip to Death Valley. Thankfully it was just a top off at $6.99/gallon and my jerry cans were full for the trip.

Just recently, gas went below $2 again, but is back to $2.30 or so. No rhyme or reason.

[mold maker]

In 1958 the gas war price was 13.9/gal, and my 55 Chevy 6 w/OD got 23 mpg.
I was making .50 per hr and a weekend of fun was as little as $6., including the popcorn.

[Kent Fowler]

That was the normal price when I was 16. But the price would drop down to 12¢ to 15¢ a gallon during the gas wars. But that was 50 years ago. :sad:

Cheapest gas war price I ever saw was .07 a gallon at an independent gas station in Amarillo, Texas when I was in jr. high in the early 60's.

[CastingFool]

Lowest I remember paying was .19/gal. during the gas wars.

[1Shirt]

I pumped Golden ESSO at 19 cents a gal, (that was top of the line premium in 1955), and that was during a gas war. Our regular gas, normal price was 23 cents a gal.
1Shirt!

[ph4570]

As I recall -- around 24 cents/gal around 1970, '71 or '72 in Chico CA.

[gon2shoot]

6.9 cents for about 2 weeks during the gas wars, then back up to 12 cents.

[MaryB]

Local drive up place(still in existence!!) had 10 hamburgers for $1 when I was a kid(4 or 5) For my family eating out like that was a treat because we never had money to actually go to a restaurant.

[MT Gianni]

When I was 14 we pooled our money and came up with 31 cents that bought 1.2 gallons. By the time Ii tuned 16 it was @ 31.9.

[MtGun44]

Yep, the youngsters that never new gas less than 89 cents, that is a bummer.

Of course, the youngsters will not know why "Super 8" and "Motel 6" got their names.

Because Motel 6 cost $6 for a room and Super 8 was $8.88 for a room.

[edler7]

24.9 cents/gallon. I'd get 50 cents worth in my VW, buy a pack of smokes for .35, a coke for a dime....and a whole dollar was shot right there.

Cheapest gas I remember seeing was 19.9 cents in Kansas City in the mid 60's.

[tommag]

I remember .15 gas, but when I was 16, the price was about .60

[leftiye]

I once went 200 miles on $5.00 worth of gas in a 1958 Edsel with a 362 cu. in. motor and auto tranny (.30/gal.).

[smokeywolf]

We had a new Motel 6, when it was still $6.00 a night. Across the street was a Sambo's restaurant where a cup of coffee was 10 cents w/unlimited refills.

Sambo's went out of business a few years after somebody decided that because the name and type of food the restaurant featured had a basis or association with the old children's book "The Story of Little Black Sambo" (which technically was about an Indian child), that the entire restaurant chain should be considered an affront to all blacks everywhere.

smokeywolf

[MT Gianni]

Smokey, I have a couple of those old books.