How much was gas when you started driving?

[gprsh924]

Paid $4.75 a gallon for 93 yesterday at the station next to my apartment. However, I only put in $10. Just enough to get me back to out to the suburbs where I can pay the low cost rate of roughly $4.45/gallon for premium.

[johnsjmc]

It was about 50 cents per gal when I started driving in 68. I remember $.13 /g while travelling with my parents somewhere in the southern states. Today in Canada we are paying about $5.00( $1.30/litre). Consider an 8 hr day at minimum wage bought a tankfull in 1968 and it still does

[klm2500hd]

Originally Posted by NotaBRG

For the guys that would love to see gas at $.25, $.50, anything less than $1, what were you making at the time? Would you like to go back to that as well?

I know when I first started driving I was making $2.25 and hour. I don't want to go back to that...

And what did food cost, mortgages, etc. As a percentage of median income, when adjusted for inflation, I had a lot more disposable income then than I do now. In other words, like most people my income has not raised at the same rate that everything else has. I look at the kids starting out today, and it's no wonder they are amassing debt. I pay as much for gas a month now as I did for my first apartment.

[masraum]

Late '86, well under $1, maybe .70 or .75. I had a '65 Impala (older than I was), so I used regular leaded gas. I think my first job was paying me $3.85/hr or something like that. I was buying CDs (music) every week, then I'd record them onto a 90 minutes cassette tape so I could play them in the car.

[Drisump]

I really don't remember but to fill my almost empty Mini Cooper was $3.50......

[AFC-911]

Originally Posted by Drisump

I really don't remember but to fill my almost empty Mini Cooper was $3.50......

Sounds like a fairly simple math problem, how many gallons did your Mini hold?

[wdfifteen]

I remember pulling into the station in the family Plymouth Valiant ( a prince of a car ) and asking for $1 worth of regular. Not only would the attendant pump it and wash the windshield for you, but it was enough gas to drive around all evening. Today the "attendant" would glare at you through the glass while he took your $1 and the amount of gas it bought wouldn't get you from the gas pump to the street.

[UconnTim97]

Originally Posted by AFC-911

Sounds like a fairly simple math problem, how many gallons did your Mini hold?

Either 2 or 288 gallons. (sorry I couldn't resist )

[masraum]

Originally Posted by UconnTim97

Either 2 or 288 gallons. (sorry I couldn't resist )

wdfifteen would definitely say 2

[Por_sha911]

Originally Posted by UconnTim97

Either 2 or 288 gallons. (sorry I couldn't resist )

Good one

[Drisump]

I don't remember EXACTLY how empty it was ....5.5 imperial gallons.

[Evans, Marv]

The most economical transportation I ever had was a '78 Peugot (sp. ?) diesel station wagon my former wife & I bought new. It wasn't that great of a car in the long run, but for several years it served us really well. At that time diesel cost around 11 or 12 cents a gallon in Mexico. I installed a big Racor prefilter on it and a 40 gallon fuel tank and put additive in the fuel every time. I would go down to T.J. and fill up the 40 gallon tank (with 30 some gallons) for around $3.50. I also took down 5 - 5 gallon plastic fuel containers and filled them up. When the tank would get down, I'd start putting in fuel from the containers. Sometimes we could go for almost a couple of months without refueling. One time we drove from S.D. almost to the Oregon border on our 40 gallon tank. When I finally stopped to fuel, I put the nozzle in the fill tube and started washing the windows and checking the oil. After a while the attendant came running out and looked under the car and in the back (station wagon). I asked what the problem was, and he said it shouldn't be taking that much fuel and wanted to know where it was going. He as relieved when I told him I had the 40 gallon tank.