How much was gas when you started driving?
 

Ok, so I was talking to a younger guy at a gig the other day and the price of gas came up. He mentioned that he's never paid lower than ~ $2.30/gal.

I was a bit shocked considering I actually remember ~$1.15/gal when I started driving. And that wasn't really that long ago.

Of course, an older guy overhears the conversation and says he remembers it being less than $0.50/gal.

Naturally, I can't even imagine that and then I thought he must have been older than I thought.

Around a buck a gallon.

I'm betting by this time next year it'll be pushing $7 or $8.

0.18/gal regular. Premium was 0.20

I remember 25 cents...pack of smokes out of the service station's vending machine also took a quarter. Yup, I'm so old I can remember when dirt was rocks.

But then, I can also say I had a brand new '65 Pontiac G.T.O. :)

Then there were "gas wars"...a surplus of gas had prices being cut all over town...think I remember 17.9 cents for regular.

November, 1972.

36 cents a gallon. I remember making sure everyone in the car pitched in a dollar for gas on a Friday night.

$4.00

Roll.

I remember it to be a little bit more than a dollar a gallon. Once on a trip through New Jersey I remember being shocked when I saw gas was $0.76 a gallon. I think that was in the late '90s.

I'm with Seahawk. Started driving MY car in 1970. Worked at a Texaco. Posted price was $ .33 a gallon. I got a dime off for working there, taken out of my pay BEFORE TAXES....... yes, those were the good 'ole days. Gas wars would get the price down to $ .20-ish. This was Oxnard, California.

Had to laugh at a later post. There was no such thing as unleaded. 'Low Test and High Test.' Low was 92. High was 100, later lowered to 98 and 92.

$.89 / gallon

Leaded was still available too.

1981, I remember it being somewhere in the high 70 cent range in NYC. I was also working in a Mobil station. so those numbers stick in my mind.

Gas Wars, I remember them well. But I remember paying under 19 cents a gallon through 1970 at MCAF El Toro (LTA). And that was before the Newport Freeway went through. I don't ever recognize the place anymore.

Leaded was available??? It sure was and at Chevron you could get over 100 octane, the real stuff. Oh those were some high powered and smoggy days.

64-65...I was 9 and and a gallon of gas for my montgomery ward moped was about 3 coke bottles or a couple golf balls. we got 6 cents for returned bottles and 5-10 cents for every lost golfball we found, cleaned and resold. regular was $0.17 a gallon. sometimes I'd hit the gas pumps after closing, stretch the pump hoses out and drain the little bit left in each one into a bottle and add to my tank. sometimes ya gotta do what ya gotta do to keep rollin.. and when my father stored a drum of aviation fuel for his plane behind the house, I learned how to siphon gas with a piece of hose

29.9 for regular, Chevron Custom Supreme (over 100 octane) 39.9. My Dad had a Chevron Station.

I was in MY car (1959 VW that I bought for $156.00 american) rolling around Thousand Oaks/Newbury Park. We lived up Protrero Road from Camarillo...no better place.

You owe me money!!!

I remember like $3.50 for premium the summer after I started driving .....

about 28 cents when I started driving.
hamburger was 15 cents

is that like dialing for dollars?

Summer out of HS...gas station I worked at (yes, full service!) 25 cents a gallon.

I can remember rolling up to the Service Station, a guy walks out, pumps my 21 cents per gallon gas, checks the oil, checks the tire pressure, washes the windshield and asked about my family. I never had to get out of the car.

My 1960 VW bug did not have a gas guage. I don't mean it was broken, it did not have one. The car did not have one from the factory. I had a woden dowel I cut notches in to check the gas level. I remember feeling outrage when it cost more than $2.50 for a full tank! At 36 MPG that was two weeks of driving. I remember gas wars and paying 14 cents per gallon. I only needed 4 gallons at the time :(

On Friday night if everyone threw in a quarter we could drive for the entire weekend.

Damn, for a batch of the old "white pump" Chevron today...;)