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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: nikos1121
While outside on the turnpike
They got this new hit tune
Where thrills become as cheap as gas
And gas as cheap as thrills
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posted on
12/29/2014 12:31:38 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: nikos1121
At least 17 cents, and I think I read of 14 cent gas wars.
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posted on
12/29/2014 12:31:59 PM PST
by
ansel12
(They hate us, because they ain't us.)
To: nikos1121
Sunnyvale, CA $.34 / gal., circa 1973
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posted on
12/29/2014 12:32:08 PM PST
by
Ahithophel
(Communication is an art form susceptible to sudden technical failures)
To: nikos1121
19 cents (Gas Wars of the 1970s)
To: nikos1121
$0.04.9 in Sharon PA in 1962. Gas war, and you got a set of four tea glasses with a 10 gallon fill up. Currently $1.83 in Upstate SC.
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posted on
12/29/2014 12:32:55 PM PST
by
buckalfa
(Too many evenings spent at the North Heidelberg back in 1968)
To: nikos1121
I “think” I recall $0.19/gal. Mostly it was in the 20-30 cent range in the sixties in SoCal.
To: Ahithophel
$0.19 Burbank California, 1958 Kindergarten age
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posted on
12/29/2014 12:33:22 PM PST
by
BigEdLB
(Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
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posted on
12/29/2014 12:33:23 PM PST
by
maddog55
To: nikos1121
19.9 in Santa Monica, CA. 1961.
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posted on
12/29/2014 12:33:24 PM PST
by
Steely Tom
(Thank you for self-censoring.)
To: nikos1121
Had a train set with the gas price for 103 octane at 19 cents a gallon.
Gas was around 70 cents a gallon when I started driving.
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posted on
12/29/2014 12:33:27 PM PST
by
ealgeone
To: nikos1121
My first employment was with the local TEXACO station. When I started, gasoline averaged $0.25 and diesel was around $0.28.
The station closed in 1975 and was selling gasoline at $0.43, diesel at $0.45.
Jimmah Cahtah took over and made peanut oil more lucrative...
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posted on
12/29/2014 12:33:51 PM PST
by
Cletus.D.Yokel
(Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
To: nikos1121
15.9 during a 1972 “gas war” in the Twin Cities.
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posted on
12/29/2014 12:34:29 PM PST
by
daler
To: nikos1121
.17 in Washington DC in 1953
To: faithhopecharity
S&H Green Stamps!
Bought my first tennis racket with them...the rest is local athletic history!
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posted on
12/29/2014 12:35:04 PM PST
by
Cletus.D.Yokel
(Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
To: nikos1121
19 cents per gallon. I would give my brother a dollar(he had a license, I didn’t) and we could drive all over town during the weekend in his Volkswagen Beetle.
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posted on
12/29/2014 12:35:18 PM PST
by
jy8z
(When push comes disguised as nudge, I do not budge.)
To: faithhopecharity
I think I recall 23 cents. This would have been Rockford, IL 1960’s. Big intersections would have a station on opposite corners and I recall the ‘gas wars’ where one would inch down the price a penny, then the opposite corner follows suit, etc.
And yes, full service absolutely. How clean our wind shields must have been.
Never heard of the blue chips. It was S&H green stamps in my neck of the woods.
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posted on
12/29/2014 12:35:19 PM PST
by
getitright
(If you call this HOPE, can we give despair a shot?)
To: nikos1121
25 cents as a non-driver; 38 cents as a driver.
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posted on
12/29/2014 12:35:19 PM PST
by
WayneS
(Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
To: nikos1121
$0.75 / gallon when I started driving in 1986
And it’s a good thing too...I drove a 1971 Cadillac Eldorado that didn’t get miles per gallon....it got gallons per mile :-)
To: nikos1121
In a gas war in June 1972, just ouside Kansas City, KC, a Savex station was charging 12.9 cents/gal.
The lowest "normal" price from 1961 to 1971 in the St. Louis area was seen at Site, Savex, and Zephyr stations from time to time: 19.9 cents/gal.
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posted on
12/29/2014 12:35:54 PM PST
by
SAJ
To: nikos1121
Between 60 and 70 cents when I started driving in the 80s.
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posted on
12/29/2014 12:36:11 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(You can't half ass conservatism.)
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