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

[Black_Sheep]

When I mowed lawns as a kid you could fill a gallon can to the very top for .25

 

[coltle6920]

I only remember 29-32¢/gal in the late sixties because that's when I had to start paying for my own gas.That was still a lot of money when I usually didn't have two nickels to rub together.

 

[Targets Guy]

I worked in my father's gas station in the mid 50's. It was a steady .333 a gallon. I remember that because a buck got you 3 gallons, two bucks got you six gallons and three bucks got you nine gallons. Most of us bought three gallons at a time for the Friday night "cruise the town". I do remember gas wars that would drive gas down to almost single digits.

And I really miss Sunoco and DX. Sunoco was one of the last ones that carried high octane in our area.

 

[Watchdog]

$0.27.9/gallon/1967.

 

[Just another 22 shooter]

When I was a pump jockey at the Skelly station in '73, I believe it was .26-.30. Of course, I was making a whopping $1.35/hr

 

[LostintheOzone]

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.

A pack of Camels or a gallon of gas, that was the dilemma
I had in high school. $0.25 IIRC. A buck fiddy was a darn good wage.

 

[DeathGrip]

Georgia Credit Card? Priceless.

 

[Viss]

I was a pump jockey in 1976. That's the year I got my license. Gas was .59 cents a gallon. Guys would pull in when it's raining and get $2.00 . Stand there and get wet for a two dollar sale. Those were the days.

 

[Naphtali]

After completing C.U.T.E. X at Ottowa University's graduate college in mid-June 1971, I drove from my apartment in Kansas City, Missouri, home. Yep, a gas war on. Filled my 1958 VW beetle (aka the battleship gray bomb) with regular @ 19.9¢

 

[Model 19 6"]

I paid .20 cents a gallon late 60's kept my 57 chevy on the road.

 

[Donn]

$0.16 in the Fall of 1970. It was the last great gasoline price war. A few years later came the first "oil crisis" and the game changed forever.

 

[hsmith9491]

23 cents regular

 

[Salty RI]

A pack of Camels or a gallon of gas, that was the dilemma
I had in high school. $0.25 IIRC. A buck fiddy was a darn good wage.

I remember when a pack of Camel's was .17 and in a vending machine they were .20.

 

[pharmer]

I remember $.14.9 way back but it was under $.25 up until the first "shortage" in winter '72-'73 and doubled to $.50 at the end. Doubled again to $1/gal in the 2nd shortage winter '78-'79. Paid $1.62.9 this week so relatively speaking it's cheaper than ever. Joe

 

[oldRoger]

Five gallons for a $dollar at the White Rose Station in 1950.

 

[fat tom]

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.

Me too. Marlboros were also nineteen cents a pack and you could get 3.2 beer on base for $3.85 a case. IIRC,minimum wage was $1.35. This was early 1960's.
f.t.

 

[retiredbadge8091]

I remember pumping gas for my mom's car and it was 25 cents a gallon, I went into the store to buy bread and it was 25 cents a loaf for Wonder Bread. I believe that comparison still holds pretty close today doesn't it?

 

[J. R. WEEMS]

GAS

Lowest price I ever paid was 10cents a gallon. Man, those were the days-- one station on each of four corners, then gas wars started. You could ride around town all week on 2 bucks worth of gas.

 

[STCM(SW)]

Lets see, lowest gas?
$.159 a gallon, Sea stores cigarettes, $1.00 a carton, case of Bud delivered to the base, $9.90 I think.

 

[BC38]

When I started driving in 1980 the national average for a gallon of gas was about $1.05, but I can remember filling up during a local price war for $0.79 a gallon.

Of course $0.79 in 1980 is equivalent to around $2.50 in today's dollars. So at $1.75 or so a gallon today, the gas now is quite a bit cheaper than it was then - at least in relative terms...