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

[walkin jack]

This is inspired but Colt LE 6920's thread about gas prices. It caused me to remember my own experience and to wonder what others have seen.

I was stationed in Southern California in 1962 and there was almost always a gas war going on. (And how many of you remember when we had gas wars?) I once drove to a station that was 5 miles away 'cause regular gas was going for 7 cents (that's right $0.07) per gallon. I was driving a Volkswagen bug and it wouldn't hold a dollars worth of gas.

So, what's the cheapest you ever found and when and where was it?

 

[arjay]

Around .25-.30/gal in '70

 

[the ringo kid]

Appx .50 cents per gallon back in the mid eighties. I AINT that old. ))

 

[Arik]

When I started driving in 97 regular was $0.98/gal

 

[shouldazagged]

About nineteen cents, as I recall, and that wasn't a gas war. But at the time I think minimum wage was around a buck and a quarter.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Once in Phoenix I paid 18 cents. They were having a gas war.
Later that night our somewhere in the CA desert I paid twice that much.

 

[Salty RI]

At .07 a VW would only hold .70 if the tank was bone dry.

 

[BUFF]

17.9 per at a Wiles station in 1967 or 68.

In 1971, I worked a part-time second job at a Texaco station. Full service premium was 36.9, self serve regular was 26.9. Boss got pissed at me because I bought my own gas elsewhere cause everywhere else was cheaper!

 

[BearBio]

About 16.9 or so, with a plate.

 

[finesse_r]

17 cents a gallon in the gas wars of the 1960 era. I used a lot of TEXACO back then.

 

[JH1951]

First tank was 18.9 per gallon...... How the heck do I remember that? I can even recall where the station was.... The mind is a very interesting thing, isn't it?

 

[pawngal]

Mid to late 60's, 20 cents a gallon. $1 worth was a cheap night's entertainment to drive around.

 

[Salty RI]

I remember pulling into a gas station when I was a kid 16, gas then was .16 and I asked for .50 worth, the guy looked at me and said, do you want me to sneeze in your tires too.

 

[kwselke]

In Houston circa 1972, 14.9 for off brand regular during gas wars. 25 - 35 cents a gallon was standard for Enco, Texaco, Gulf, and Shell.

 

[wbraswell]

Best I recall was 19.9 in around 1969. That was for Conotane, the lowest grade of Conoco out of 4. Probably as bad as any gas made since.

 

[Beemerguy53]

When I started driving in 1969, gasoline here in the Baltimore area was about 26 cents per gallon. I remember that Sunoco 260, the 100 octane brew that muscle cars burned, was about 35 to 40 cents per gallon.

For younger members of the Forum who think those prices sound ridiculously low, let me put that into perspective: At the time I got my driver's license, I had a Saturday job in the local dry cleaner, earning Maryland's minimum wage: 85 cents per hour.

 

[walkin jack]

...oh yeah, and trading stamps (green stamps?) Anyone remember those?

 

[brigeton]

About .19 or .20 in 1970. Pretty much everything costs 10x as much now as it did then.

 

[Whitwabit]

the lowest I ever paid was $ 0.16 a gallon a very long time ago in my first car .. it had been $0.24 but two stations were having a price war ..

that was back in 68 ..

 

[Cdog]

Gas was in the mid .30's when I began driving.

I remember being younger, hanging around my uncles Pure Oil station when it was in the mid to upper .20's.