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What was the lowest gas price you can remember both as a young person, (non-driver) and as a driver?
12/29/2014 | Nikos1121

Posted on 12/29/2014 12:27:23 PM PST by nikos1121

I can recall growing up in Chicago in the 1950s. "Oklahoma" gas stations were the most visible. I seem to recall 19 cents a gallon. The lowest price as a driver was around 29 cents. Seemed like it always was about the same as a pack of cigarettes or gallon of milk.


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1 posted on 12/29/2014 12:27:24 PM PST by nikos1121
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25 cents per gallon.


2 posted on 12/29/2014 12:28:09 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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If you adjust that 29 cents for inflation we are at the same price level now!


3 posted on 12/29/2014 12:28:55 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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13 cents in Riverside, Mo. 1967


4 posted on 12/29/2014 12:29:10 PM PST by DocJ69
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For me: 49 cents at at Gulf station...before I drove. Used to love those goofy Gulf commercials.


5 posted on 12/29/2014 12:29:13 PM PST by scripter
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16 years old ... 1964 ... .28 in Boston suburb.


6 posted on 12/29/2014 12:29:18 PM PST by knarf
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19 cents with attendant who checked air, battery, tires, and cleaned windows for you

with free Blue Chip stamps
and
a free glass or plate for your dining room

(regular price was 22 cents, this was a ‘gas war’ sale)


7 posted on 12/29/2014 12:29:21 PM PST by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..)
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I remember 19 cents a gallon, AND you got a free glass too! That would have been my high school years.


8 posted on 12/29/2014 12:29:39 PM PST by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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NYS....27 cents....when I had the car for my Senior year. Cigarettes were the same price.


9 posted on 12/29/2014 12:29:41 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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I just read that gas will be going for $1.75, maybe in some months.

NIIIICE...!


10 posted on 12/29/2014 12:29:44 PM PST by gaijin
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as a kid I specifically remember a sign saying 79 cents a gallon


11 posted on 12/29/2014 12:29:49 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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Lowest price as a driver was 21¢ a gallon during the periodic “gas wars” of the late 60s @ Newell’s Standard on HWY 436 across from the Prairie Lake Drive In.


12 posted on 12/29/2014 12:30:10 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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$.17 in gas wars...mid-sixties in Houston.


13 posted on 12/29/2014 12:30:29 PM PST by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: faithhopecharity

You’re right, they were always giving out free stuff. Owning a gas station was not prestigious in the least.


14 posted on 12/29/2014 12:30:31 PM PST by nikos1121
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.24


15 posted on 12/29/2014 12:30:31 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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I can remember my dad complaining about .35 per gallon.


16 posted on 12/29/2014 12:30:32 PM PST by taxcontrol
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When I started driving it was around 55¢.


17 posted on 12/29/2014 12:30:52 PM PST by Jagdgewehr (It will take blood.)
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I began driving in 87, lowest I can remember things was around 79.9


18 posted on 12/29/2014 12:30:52 PM PST by HamiltonJay
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luckies out’a’da machine were a quarter with .02 in the celophane wrapper .... 23 cent a pack.


19 posted on 12/29/2014 12:31:32 PM PST by knarf
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I remember seeing the gas war signs when I was a kid in the 60’s.


20 posted on 12/29/2014 12:31:37 PM PST by ifinnegan
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