Showing my age here, but I remember buying gas at double digit prices.
The lowest I ever saw was .26, two black-owned independent gas stations near Detroit having a price war. That was mid-60’s. By the time I was 16, there were the Jimmy Carter waiting lines at the gas stations, and it was up to an outrageous .55. That would be 2.22 in today’s dollars.
Like $0.25/gallon?
We were outraged when filling up a 20 gallon tank wen from $5 a tank to $10 a tank.
Course, minimum wage was nothing to write home about either, but I still think that proportionately, it was MUCH cheaper.