[who knows what evil?]

I remember taking Esso for six cents in their ‘Tigerino’ scratch-off game back in the day...

[CMAC51]

$0.12 per gallon, Grand Rapids Michigan in the late 60’s.

[ExCTCitizen]

As a young person .25 a gallon as a driver .75/gallon. Just filled up my car and boat at 2.35 at Wawa...

[unread]

I remember .17 cents per. gal...east end of Cincinnati, about 1960 or thereabouts...

[jmacusa]

50 cents a gallon for regular in 1975.

[SoFloFreeper]

48 cents. Early 70s.

[Ancesthntr]

$0.279 in Florida in 1972. Average price everywhere else was in the mid- to high-30s/gallon. Price war.

My father clearly remembered 15 cents/gallon in 1961 (my year of birth) at the Navy PX station at Lakehurst, NJ. Not available to civilians, though.

Now I see $1.749 at a local Sam’s Club (San Antonio). Adjusted for inflation, it is comparable to late ‘60s prices, and cars get better mileage now even with all of the heavy and restrictive safety and emissions crap. So cost per mile, adjusted for inflation, is probably about as low as ever (certainly for most people still breathing, though many Dem voters will remember lower prices :>) ).

[MNnice]

25 cents back in the 60s.

[hoosierham]

13.9 during price war when I was in third grade, 1962.And free glasses! 27.9 first gas in my own car 1973 in Indiana Farm Bureau.

[ThunderSleeps]

When I started driving I believe it was around $0.80 a gallon. As a kid with a Honda 50 mini bike I can remember it something like the upper $0.30 cent range.

[Skooz]

I remember my dad pulling into a gas station, looking at the price on the pump, and then drive away grumbling that he would not pay 30 cents a gallon for gas.

We stopped at a station down the road that, I suppose, sold their gas at a more reasonable price.

[SomeCallMeTim]

19 cents south of Houston in 1969... When I was mowing yards. For a quarter, I could fill my gas can, get a candy bar, and a big piece of bubble gum.

Good times....

Got $5 a yard to mow.... I could do 4-5,yards on one can.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

$0.10 per gallon during a gas war in the 1950’s.

[mware]

about 37 cents in 1976.

I remember when it hit 50 cents a gallon I wondered what my father would have thought about it

[crz]

10 gallons for 13 cents.

[MeganC]

I remember in 1999 my mom buying gas for $1.45 a gallon and complaining that it was cheaper outside of California.

[surrey]

19 cents in 1965 Bethpage, Long Island. We had 4 gas stations on 4 corners and there was always a gas war.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

17.9 cents a gallon August 1971 somewhere in mid-Missouri on Hiway 54. At the time the going price was 32.9. Two gas stations in a small town had a price war.

[right way right]

Gas at .25 cents one day then, suddenly it was .73 cents and I'm sitting in a hot station wagon in line for hours whining to Mom, then getting smacked by Dad for whining. He said something about a g..damn peanut farmer.

[MarDav]

I pumped gas @ 53 cents/gallon at one of my first jobs at a Merit Gas Station on Rt. 46 in Fort Lee, NJ in 1976.