I “think” I recall $0.19/gal. Mostly it was in the 20-30 cent range in the sixties in SoCal.
19.9 in Santa Monica, CA. 1961.
Gas was around 70 cents a gallon when I started driving.
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...
15.9 during a 1972 “gas war” in the Twin Cities.
.17 in Washington DC in 1953
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.
25 cents as a non-driver; 38 cents as a driver.
$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 :-)
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.
Between 60 and 70 cents when I started driving in the 80s.
Don’t recall the price, but I remember watching the little spinning thing in the glass pass-through as the gas moved through the pump. (From the back seat of my fathers station wagon.)
From the “inflation calculator”...
What cost $.25 in 1950 would cost $2.39 in 2013.
Also, if you were to buy exactly the same products in 2013 and 1950,
they would cost you $.25 and $0.03 respectively.
Don’t recall the price, but I remember watching the little spinning thing in the glass pass-through as the gas moved through the pump. (From the back seat of my fathers station wagon.)
96 cents in the late 80s. $1.29 or so when I started driving 10 years later.
65 cents a gallon when I filled up my first tank in my first car. 1975 Texaco station.
I remember a a pre-driving kid thinking it was an outrage when it shot up to 47 cents. I think I remember high 20s, maybe 28 or 29.
38.9, early 70s (CT) non-driver
59.9, late 80s (CT) driver
85.9, early 2000s (OH, told wife that was the last time we’d see that price)
About .50¢, 1974.
Of course...you would be paying for that with two *silver* dimes....worth 2.28 today (even with the whackage that has occurred to silver of late) so arguably, gas is cheaper than it was then if you're paying < $2.28. I'm not, I live in CA and gas is automatically 50 cents higher than the rest of the US and after Jan 01, going to get more expensive with our wonderful new "cap ' n trade" tax.