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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: 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


21 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.)
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To: nikos1121

At least 17 cents, and I think I read of 14 cent gas wars.


22 posted on 12/29/2014 12:31:59 PM PST by ansel12 (They hate us, because they ain't us.)
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To: nikos1121

Sunnyvale, CA $.34 / gal., circa 1973


23 posted on 12/29/2014 12:32:08 PM PST by Ahithophel (Communication is an art form susceptible to sudden technical failures)
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To: nikos1121

19 cents (Gas Wars of the 1970s)


24 posted on 12/29/2014 12:32:36 PM PST by chalkfarmer
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$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.
25 posted on 12/29/2014 12:32:55 PM PST by buckalfa (Too many evenings spent at the North Heidelberg back in 1968)
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To: nikos1121

I “think” I recall $0.19/gal. Mostly it was in the 20-30 cent range in the sixties in SoCal.


26 posted on 12/29/2014 12:32:58 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: Ahithophel

$0.19 Burbank California, 1958 Kindergarten age


27 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.)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

.31 cents back in 62.


28 posted on 12/29/2014 12:33:23 PM PST by maddog55
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To: nikos1121

19.9 in Santa Monica, CA. 1961.


29 posted on 12/29/2014 12:33:24 PM PST by Steely Tom (Thank you for self-censoring.)
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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.

30 posted on 12/29/2014 12:33:27 PM PST by ealgeone
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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...


31 posted on 12/29/2014 12:33:51 PM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: nikos1121

15.9 during a 1972 “gas war” in the Twin Cities.


32 posted on 12/29/2014 12:34:29 PM PST by daler
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To: nikos1121

.17 in Washington DC in 1953


33 posted on 12/29/2014 12:35:01 PM PST by Eternally-Optimistic (anything is possible)
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To: faithhopecharity

S&H Green Stamps!

Bought my first tennis racket with them...the rest is local athletic history!


34 posted on 12/29/2014 12:35:04 PM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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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.


35 posted on 12/29/2014 12:35:18 PM PST by jy8z (When push comes disguised as nudge, I do not budge.)
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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.


36 posted on 12/29/2014 12:35:19 PM PST by getitright (If you call this HOPE, can we give despair a shot?)
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To: nikos1121

25 cents as a non-driver; 38 cents as a driver.


37 posted on 12/29/2014 12:35:19 PM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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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 :-)


38 posted on 12/29/2014 12:35:32 PM PST by Personal Responsibility (I'd use the /S tag but is it really necessary?)
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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.

39 posted on 12/29/2014 12:35:54 PM PST by SAJ
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Between 60 and 70 cents when I started driving in the 80s.


40 posted on 12/29/2014 12:36:11 PM PST by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
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