[wardaddy]

Self serve....Swifty...45 cents or so in 1966

Ciggies were 25-30 cents a pack

When I started driving in 1971 gas was still 50-65 cents

Cigs were 50 cents or so

Then the oil embargo....and everything went up

[DoodleDawg]

Seemed like it always was about the same as a pack of cigarettes or gallon of milk.

Well right now gas is cheaper that both cigarettes and milk.

As for me, I can remember gas under a dollar on a couple of occasions. But since I've been driving, and paying for it, it's usually been above that.

[Texas Yellow Rose]

In Texas, 1972, there was a gas war in September. Gas price was 19 cents a gallon. I didn’t pay much attention before that.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

12 cents a gallon, 1962 gas war.
As a driver, 14 cents a gallon 1964 gas war.

[halfright]

1961 in Wichita Falls Texas @ .19 during gas war.

[Defiant]

19 cents a gallon, Joplin MO, mid-60s. The usual price was higher, but there was a "gas war" on, and two stations across from each other had dropped their prices.

I paid 99 cents a gallon as recently as 2000, also in Missouri.

Most of my childhood, the price was around 30 cents. You could be low on gas, give them $1, and get around 3 gallons, enough to drive home at 10 mpg. Then give the car back to dad.

[Cold Heat]

24 cents

[WilliamofCarmichael]

24.9 cents a gallon, regular. It happened in 1950s when there were gas “wars.” Usually the price was 49.9 cents a gallon.

[Robert DeLong]

Annual gas prices. 1919-2011.

Annual gas prices adjusted for inflation 1919-2011. Cost in Feb. 2012 U.S. Dollars.

Annual gas prices 1919-2011. Cost in 1919 U.S. Dollars.

Source

[PUGACHEV]

It was .15 cents per gallon at some discount stations in Delaware in the 50s. In the late ‘60s, there was a station in Southern Maryland that sold gas tickets in $20 books. Using the tickets, the price was .20 per gallon.

[CGASMIA68]

Carms Texaco, Robbins and Willard......64 65 there bouts
29.9 Plus S&H Greens Stamps.

[fatnotlazy]

I remember my dad complaining when he had to pay 79 cents a gallon. I think that was late 70s or early 80s. I live in PA and our gasoline costs way more than in most states.

[sourcery]

As a non-driver: $0.29/gallon, early 1970s.

As a driver: $0.49/gallon, Aug 1974 (when I got my driver’s license.)

[NEMDF]

I think 29.9 cents.

[who knows what evil?]

24.9 cents per gallon in upstate New York, 1970.

[luvbach1]

I recall about 19.9c/gallon during price wars in the mid-50s in San Diego no less. $2.00 good enough for a few days of driving. I bought retreads for my ‘41 Olds for $6.00 or $7.00.

[vetvetdoug]

Gas war, Del Rio, Texas. $.18/gallon around 1965.

[Blue Collar Christian]

In the late 50s to early 60s my folks always got $2 worth of regular, and it was usually over 12 gallons in Orange County, So. California. By the time I drove in ‘71 it was .36 9/10 per gallon, and that was in a small Mojave Desert town out Death Valley way.

[dalereed]

1954 In was paying 13.9 cents/gallon in Los Angeles.

[GOJPN]

Sometimes a gallon jug and a length of garden hose lowered the price considerably for some folks.