Cheapest Gas Prices You Can Remember?

[greatwn73]

When I first started driving never needed more than five bucks to fill my chevelle and asking for two bucks worth was not embarassing.It took seven to fill my first charger (8.00 for the good stuff) but the charger would only go half the distance.

[my73charger]

Wow some cool stories.

[69 charger man]

i remember it was like a buck when i was a kid growing up in the late 90s
-ray

[golden73]

I still remember when it was .89 a gallon. That's pretty good considering I'm only 19, and when I ask my friends the cheapest they remember is $1.60

These gas prices are out of controls. I wonder what the prices will be like 10 years from now 

[Brock Samson]

 I paid $2.76 a gal for regular today.. 

[Lightning]

I remember when I first started driving it was about $1.55.  I'll have to pay $2.41 tomarrow....ouch! I go through about 3 tanks a week now since I've started my deliveries...

[SLIKK 70]

I remember in 1970 in Jr. High someone built a gas station / mini market next to the school. It was the coolest thing that happened in Jr. High. Gas started at .219 a gallon then. The store is still there but the pumps are gone.

[mustanghater]

1.99 I think

[RTPTRON]

Back in my day of cruizing around Gatlinburg and Sevierville, Tennessee 100+ Octain went for between 25.9 and 29.9.  I remember driving along country roads looking for drink bottles to get money for a tank of gas (5.00), a movey (.50), a six pack of beer (1.30), and dinner (1.00).  If you had $10. in your pocket you were ready for action.

However, when your summer job paid around $30 a week, LOL

The biggest difference now is that I don't have to pick up drink bottles anymore for gas money.

[John_Kunkel]

Back in the late fifties and early sixties we used to have "gas wars" around here; when some street intersections had a gas station on all four corners the different brands would lower gas prices to lure in customers and their competitors would follow suit. In an era when normal prices were 18 ¢ to 21 ¢ a gallon, prices would dip as low as 11 ¢ during gas wars.

At the beginning of the '73 "embargo" the prices around here had risen to around 35 ¢ but doubled in no time after the embargo.

[Mass_Mopar]

cheapest I can remember is .92/gal.  I'm 19.

My dad worked at a gas station in the 70's, they had a price war with the guys across the street, and gas hit .25/gal. or so he tells me

[Chryco Psycho]

.72/ gal when i started driving

[69bananabeast]

was late80's/ early 90's kid member it being around .90 cents.  First started dribing about 3 years ago gas was 1.30-1.40 in jan.  and once summer came thats when the prices went to the incline.

[392Creep]

Well I got my license in 2002..Im a youngin..and gas was 1.39 for me, and that was incredible..I remeber being able to fill my tank with 8 bucks...now with 8 bucks I can put some fumes in my tank to make it down the street to the next gas station...

[Ghoste]

It was around .60 or .65 cents a gallon when I started driving.  Those were Canadian gallons which were a little bigger than US ones for some reason.  Then they switched to metric and the world began to implode for me.

[lumpy]

It's cool to see the range in what some of us remember as cheap!!29 cents- $1.99?? I remember .70 in the 70's, some of us are really showing our age. By the way where is the symbol for the cents sign on my keyboard!?!

[69_se_ron]

about 25-26 cents a gallon back in the mid seventies.

[Lightning]

here's y'all a question, and I'm not trying to start a political war here: what will happen to gas prices once a new president gets elected in '08?

[Ghoste]

Gas prices will always go up.

[dodgecharger-fan]

Not really sure what it was per gallon, but I remember my Dad getting "2 dollars regular" about once a week. He worked 5 or 6 days a week and drove my Mom to work and the grocery store, too. It was the only car we had at the house. My older brothers had their own cars, though.

That was around 1970 or maybe 71.

[SeattleCharger]

 
   $1.20 in 1986. 

[Telvis]

I remember when gas was about a quarter a gallon. My mom would get $1 worth of gas all the time. Looking back I guess she didn't have much money. I didn't realize it at the time.

[chargerjy9]

I  know this shows my age but I can remember the" gas wars' in the Detroit area around 1966- 67. Some of the off brands were as low as 19.9 cents for a gallon.  My one big mistake was selling my 1st 73 Charger in 1975 because gas went up to 60 cents a gallon, and as a new family man,it was suggested that the Charger would put us in the poor house (wonder whose idea that was) Now, I own a new 73 Charger and I plain dont care how much the gas costs

[OldGuy]

67RedCharger and I are showing our ages.  Mid-60's when i was driving a '49 Mercury to high school, gas was .19 a gallon.  When I sold my 68 Charger in 1971, premium leaded had skyrocketed to .32 a gallon!!

[Lowprofile]

Just fueled up My rig today........  roughly $600.00 for 250 gal of Diesel!!