What's the lowest price you have ever paid for gasoline?

In 1960 .15 cents @ gallon for my beloved old 1952 Ford flat head V-8 . I remember in 1974 when it got up to .50 cents a gallon I swore if it went any higher, I would quite driving!
 
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I believe Sunoco high test 260 was $.26 a gallon back around 1967. Regular probably could be found for under $.20 a gal. I had a Morris Minor 1000 that $1.50 would probably fill the tank. Like was said above the minimum wage was around $1.35 back then also. So buying Sunoco 260 was a splurge for a young kid to buy back then.
These days put the nozzle in the tank without turning on the pump and squeeze the trigger to get what was left in the hose. That was about $.50 worth when gas was almost $4 a gallon.
 
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As I recall, .11 at Simonsons in the late 60's when in college. Of course the old Hudson got about 6 MPG :)
 
How about zero cents per gallon. I was 14 and crazier than I am now.
I had my siphon hose and can and was busy "borrowing" a little gas from a 1948 Ford. An upstairs light came on illuminating the driveway so I could see a lot better. It was the Sheriff's car. I got out of there in a hurry.
Lucky that gas didn't cost me a lot more.
 
How many remember driving into a station and asking for a dollar's worth of gas? I remember in around 1974 or 75 during the embargo, and most gas stations were closed on Sunday. Gas had skyrocketed to around .37 a gallon, I was with a friend who found a station open on Sunday and pulled in and told the guy to put a dollar's worth in it. The reply was, "I won't turn the pump on for a dollar."
 
When I was in high school in the early 60s I drove a Renault and gas was normally 0.28 to 0.30 a gal. The lowest I ever paid during a gas war was about 0.15 but heard of a station that had it for 0.009. My little Renault would not have held a dimes worth at that price. I never put more than two dollars worth in that car. The gas mileage was about the only good thing about that Renault.
 
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How about zero cents per gallon. I was 14 and crazier than I am now.
I had my siphon hose and can and was busy "borrowing" a little gas from a 1948 Ford. An upstairs light came on illuminating the driveway so I could see a lot better. It was the Sheriff's car. I got out of there in a hurry.
Lucky that gas didn't cost me a lot more.
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I spent two nights in a Duval County jail for just about that same thing. Only it was the Padres car... some nuns blew the whistle on me. Ah, those trips to the border towns in the 60's. I left my money at Papagallos... ;)
 
Sunoco 260 dropped down to $.27 in Western Indiana in 1972 it sure made the 69 383 Roadrunner rev nice. Those big block engines had a crummy distributer which would not hold dwell when reved out so the 260 helped with preventing pinging. Switching to a capacitive discharge system and 260 would let it run at redline no problems.
 
When I started driving in 1971 gas was .35-.50 a gallon. I always had a hot rod so Ethel (as they called premium) was .50 cents a gallon. And in 1972-73 the big gas crunch started. And gas doubled over night. Then the hot rods weren't so appealing!!
 
In 1973 I was paying .50 cents a gallon for Sunoco 260. If I bought it at work I paid .36 cents a gallon since the company I worked for was a Sun dealer and we were on the pipeline! ;)
My Olds 442 sure did like that 260! :cool:
 
I remember a Chevron/Standard station just South of Las Vegas selling gas during a gas war for 11.9 cents per while I was in High School and giving me the choice of a white coffee cup, saucer or small dinner plate with each fillup. Regular gas was normally 19.9 cents per. I drove a '47 Ford 1/2 ton pickup with a flathead V-8. It didn't get very good gas mileage as I remember, especially the way I drove. My Mom told me to quit bringing home those dishes! But, I could go to a Mobile station and pay 16.9 cents and get Green Stamps instead. Mom liked (no loved) those Green Stamps.
 
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The least was zero.

When we were kids we'd get up early on a Sunday morning before the corner gas station was open and drain the gas leftover in the hoses into the gas tanks on our minibikes. There was a lot of pumps so we had plenty of gas to ride.

Yeah I know... :o
 
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While I was in college at Ohio State, I would drive home to Southern Ohio most weekends. This was in the early 1960s. I always drove through Chilicothe OH going and coming, and always filled up there at 19.9. And I used to buy cigarettes in Kentucky for about $2.00/carton about the same time period. Cigarettes have gone up a lot more than gasoline.
 
I started driving in 1970, I was paying $.32-$.35/gal.

Of course, I was bagging groceries at minimum wage ($1.60/hr), so a gallon of gas was roughly 20% of an hour's pay. At $1.65/gal, that's less than 5% of my hourly rate today. Even two years ago, when regular was $3.50/gal, it was still less than 9% of my hourly rate. My gas mileage is a whole lot better today, too.
 
In the summer of 1958 I was working for a constructuion company building a 2 pole transmission power line in Houston Mo. and bought it for 14.9, in 57 I was riding a Triumph Terrier and buying Gulf Crest for .35 a gallon. Jeff
 
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