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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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To: Cvengr

During the ‘79 gas crisis (thank you Jimmuh Cahta) my next door neighbor started fueling his old Mercedes with heating oil. We didn’t say anything because we were getting around the odd/even pump restrictions by taking the ski boat down to the marina and fueling up and then transferring it to the gas tank.

Worked great all summer but unfortunately the marina closed during the winter months.


141 posted on 12/29/2014 1:56:31 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: nikos1121

19 cents in 1965 Bethpage, Long Island. We had 4 gas stations on 4 corners and there was always a gas war.


142 posted on 12/29/2014 2:03:45 PM PST by surrey
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To: nikos1121

17.9 cents a gallon August 1971 somewhere in mid-Missouri on Hiway 54. At the time the going price was 32.9. Two gas stations in a small town had a price war.


143 posted on 12/29/2014 2:05:57 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Black lies matter. 'White privilege' is dog-whistle for 'kill white people.')
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To: Cen-Tejas

We pay more taxes per gal today than a gal cost back then.


144 posted on 12/29/2014 2:07:52 PM PST by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: nikos1121
Gas at .25 cents one day then, suddenly it was .73 cents and I'm sitting in a hot station wagon in line for hours whining to Mom, then getting smacked by Dad for whining. He said something about a g..damn peanut farmer.
145 posted on 12/29/2014 2:08:48 PM PST by right way right (America will reject the suck of Socialist Freedumb, one way or another.)
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To: nikos1121

I pumped gas @ 53 cents/gallon at one of my first jobs at a Merit Gas Station on Rt. 46 in Fort Lee, NJ in 1976.


146 posted on 12/29/2014 2:10:14 PM PST by MarDav
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To: nikos1121

1969 - I would fill up the 2 1/2 gallon gas tank on my Triumph Bonneville (motorcycle) for about $1.50. I also paid $.33 for a pack of Lucky Strikes. LOL


147 posted on 12/29/2014 2:10:57 PM PST by NY Cajun (I contributed to her pink slip this morning.)
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To: nikos1121

At 19.9 cents per gallon, I could afford to drive my first car- ‘56 Buick.


148 posted on 12/29/2014 2:12:27 PM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: nikos1121
I can recall $.299 as a non-driver in 1969- 1971/72

After the Oil crisis, $.499 and then Jimmuh Carter, it was $.699 to $.839.

Then paid $.839 in Febuary 1999.

149 posted on 12/29/2014 2:12:58 PM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: nikos1121

18 cents a gallon during a price war in the 50s.
Used to go out with five dollars on a Friday night
put two dollars in the car and get food for two.
Sandy Springs Ga. was just a gas station on a two lane
at that time.


150 posted on 12/29/2014 2:13:39 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: right way right

I had an odd numbers licence plate and could only get gas every other day. If I recall you could not get more than $5.00 worth.


151 posted on 12/29/2014 2:14:44 PM PST by mware
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To: nikos1121

It was 1986, I had abs, a Yamaha 850 special, and reg was .69/gal.


152 posted on 12/29/2014 2:16:28 PM PST by clbiel (Islamophobia: The irrational fear of being decapitated)
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To: nikos1121

$1.49 in 1988 when I first got my license.


153 posted on 12/29/2014 2:26:12 PM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: nikos1121

In the 50s in San Antonio, TX, I remember 18.9 and occasionally lower at the original gas station that eventually grew to be Diamond Shamrock and then Valero. The place was a one tank station with a portable tin building about 10’x5’ for an office.

Lots of folks wouldn’t trade there because the rumor was that the gas had water in it, but schoolboys didn’t care. I’d pitch in my lunch money (.25) to a friend who had a car and we’d hit the streets for a spin.


154 posted on 12/29/2014 2:31:51 PM PST by wildbill (If you check behind the shower" curtain for a murderer, and find one... what's your plan?)
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To: nikos1121

24.9 in Houston when I got my license.
Cheeper with the gas wars (remember independent stations?).
They also were “full service”, and topped off your windshield fluid, checked oil, etc)


155 posted on 12/29/2014 2:38:15 PM PST by Verbosus (/* No Comment */)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

.19 9/10 during 1970 gas war in Knob Noster, Mo., (WAFB).


156 posted on 12/29/2014 2:43:19 PM PST by mcshot ( He's hiding everything at the expense of our dying Republic but that is the plan.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

I forgot to mention, those prices I gave were BEFORE self service! Someone actually came out and put the gas in for us, AND washed the windshield, checked the oil and would check the air in your tires if you requested it!


157 posted on 12/29/2014 2:44:25 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: nikos1121
What was the lowest gas price you can remember

$2.69 per gallon.......I think it was last week.

158 posted on 12/29/2014 2:47:58 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (I'm a man of no-color and proud of it.)
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To: nikos1121

50 cents back in the early 70’s.


159 posted on 12/29/2014 3:00:39 PM PST by Randy Larsen (Aim small, Miss small.)
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To: nikos1121

1972 Northeast Oklahoma - ranged from 13¢ to 18¢ per gallon.

The gas war ended and in early 1973 it was in the 28¢ to 32¢ range, never to return to those rates of 1972.


160 posted on 12/29/2014 3:16:13 PM PST by TomGuy
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