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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
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To: getitright
I'm pretty sure the S & H Greenstamps were national. There must have been many regional outfits doing the same thing. IIRC, In Ohio, you got the greenstamps at the A & P and Big Bear, and Buckeye stamps at the Kroger's.
My mom always went to Kroger's so we never really saved the greenstamps.
To: nikos1121
I remember my dad complaining when he had to pay 79 cents a gallon. I think that was late 70s or early 80s. I live in PA and our gasoline costs way more than in most states.
To: nikos1121
is that was that was..I thought it was the mushrooms!!!!!DANG
To: nikos1121
As a non-driver: $0.29/gallon, early 1970s.
As a driver: $0.49/gallon, Aug 1974 (when I got my driver’s license.)
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posted on
12/29/2014 1:06:39 PM PST
by
sourcery
(Without the right to self defense, there can be no rights at all.)
To: nikos1121
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posted on
12/29/2014 1:06:54 PM PST
by
NEMDF
To: T. Rustin Noone
I remember we could cash in coke bottles or whatever.
Heck, a dollar was enough to do all of your Saturday night cruising and carousing all over town.
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12/29/2014 1:08:08 PM PST
by
ansel12
(They hate us, because they ain't us.)
To: llevrok
One of those "insert tab A into slot B" cardboard models of the Apollo Lunar Module. It was one of those promotional item give-aways back when Gulf Oil sponsored television coverage of the Apollo Missions.
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12/29/2014 1:08:09 PM PST
by
Jagdgewehr
(It will take blood.)
To: nikos1121
24.9 cents per gallon in upstate New York, 1970.
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posted on
12/29/2014 1:09:55 PM PST
by
who knows what evil?
(Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
To: nikos1121
I recall about 19.9c/gallon during price wars in the mid-50s in San Diego no less. $2.00 good enough for a few days of driving. I bought retreads for my ‘41 Olds for $6.00 or $7.00.
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12/29/2014 1:11:55 PM PST
by
luvbach1
(We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
To: nikos1121
Gas war, Del Rio, Texas. $.18/gallon around 1965.
To: knarf
They get $83 and change here in PA now for a carton of Luckies. NY state, even worse.
To: lonestar
Farmers didn’t have to pay the road tax on their fuel, while if you used it to drive to town in your diesel pickup, you would have to pay it.
Most ranchers/farmers would have a 500-2000 gal tank for their equipment to run their tractors and combines’. Frequently, they would just top off their pickup from the same stock tank.
Periodically, the Dept of Public Safety or county would set up road blocks on rural farm roads and stop the pickups, and would run a dipstick in the gas tanks to see if they were using the right fuel on the roadway.
If they were using red diesel, they’d have to pay fine for not having paid the road tax, and the dispenser would have to pay .20/gal for not abiding by the Road Tax.
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12/29/2014 1:13:41 PM PST
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Cvengr
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To: nikos1121
In the late 50s to early 60s my folks always got $2 worth of regular, and it was usually over 12 gallons in Orange County, So. California. By the time I drove in ‘71 it was .36 9/10 per gallon, and that was in a small Mojave Desert town out Death Valley way.
To: nikos1121
1954 In was paying 13.9 cents/gallon in Los Angeles.
To: nikos1121
Sometimes a gallon jug and a length of garden hose lowered the price considerably for some folks.
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posted on
12/29/2014 1:17:30 PM PST
by
GOJPN
To: Cvengr
That’s interesting...never heard it before.
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posted on
12/29/2014 1:18:19 PM PST
by
lonestar
(It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
To: nikos1121
I remember taking Esso for six cents in their ‘Tigerino’ scratch-off game back in the day...
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posted on
12/29/2014 1:18:47 PM PST
by
who knows what evil?
(Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
To: nikos1121
$0.12 per gallon, Grand Rapids Michigan in the late 60’s.
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posted on
12/29/2014 1:19:13 PM PST
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CMAC51
To: nikos1121
As a young person .25 a gallon as a driver .75/gallon. Just filled up my car and boat at 2.35 at Wawa...
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posted on
12/29/2014 1:20:50 PM PST
by
ExCTCitizen
(I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
To: nikos1121
I remember .17 cents per. gal...east end of Cincinnati, about 1960 or thereabouts...
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posted on
12/29/2014 1:22:22 PM PST
by
unread
(Rescind the 17th. Amendment...bring the power BACK to the states...!)
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