Nineteen cents, but that was before I could drive.
$0.35 a gallon as a kid in the late 60’s.
I can remember getting a two gallon gas can with a dollar taped to it when I was 14. That would have bee $0.50.
I cannot remember what I paid yesterday.
$0.279 in Long Beach, CA - 1969
$0.549 when is started driving.
I remember $0.99 back in the late 90’s in DuPage County Illinois.
By the time I got a license, a gallon of gas or a pack of cigarettes were getting closer to the half dollar mark, and you still found the odd silver quarter or dime in change...but they weren't being made of silver any more.
Of course, back then you could buy a machine gun for $6.50, LOL.
17 cents per gallon August 1963 Ames, Iowa
Around 70 cents (born in 1970). I probably didn’t pay attention until around 1980. I do distinctly remember the glasses they handed out - they were what we stocked the cupboard with.
I don’t believe I have ever had “full service”. Although I remember buying gas on the NJ Turnpike in around 1991, and they charged me for full service. I questioned this...and they looked at me like I was stupid, and proceeded to tell me that all gas bought after dark on the turnpike was full service...didn’t matter that nobody pumped my gas.
I also remember when a lot of gas statins were service stations, with a garage bay to change oil or plug a tire - that is a dying business model.
1930s bulk farm prices...
Diesel - a nickel.
Gas - a dime.
Per gallon - delivered.
from 1939
Another question - when was the last time you used an analogue pump? I think for me it was 1995is in Junction City, Kansas.
In the late 70’s $.57 gallon(my first tank of gas) then $.75(my Second) and up from there
“I’ll have a couple dollars’ worth.”
[Attendant in uniform cleans windshield. Car gets over a half a tank more gas, nearly filling it.]
;-)
23 cents per gallon in the mid sixties, plus a case of soda pop with returnable bottles in a cool wooden box if you filled your tank. During your stop you would expect at least the front and rear glass to be cleaned, the side windows and mirrors maybe. The oil would be checked and the level on the dipstick would be shown to the driver. Many times this was done by a grown man wearing a uniform shirt and a bow tie with a company hat. Most filling stations in those days had a full time automobile mechanic on duty.
That was in a "gas war", of course. The regular price was 25.9.
I don’t remember how old I was (maybe 10 or 12 yrs.) but I remember my dad sending me to the local marina in Ventnor Heights, NJ, to buy a gallon of white gas for the outboard motor (and he sent me with a glass gallon jug!!!). I took a quarter and got 10 cents back. That was probably around 1957 or 58. I also remember buying a pair of low cut Converse sneakers for $7.00 and a short sleeved shirt for $2.00. I just barely remember nickel Cokes in vending machines in the short green glass bottles. I know, I know I’m an old fart ;- )
Around 22-25 cents a gallon for the old Harley during high school.
32-35 cents a gallon, I think, for 68 GTO.
We also used diesel for weed killer back then, think it was 10-12 cents a gallon, LOL!
As a kid I can remember it being around fifty cents a gallon just before the oil embargo of the 1970’s.
Least I ever remember paying for it as a driver was around a buck nine. In the 80’s.