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

[rwsmith]

Before the crisis....

Before the crisis it was about .40/gal. It's been so long that I've forgotten the lowest. For some reason .32/gal rings a bell. I don't know if it was the lowest, I just remember it.

 

[rwsmith]

Where......?

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

Where did you get gas for .50/gal in the 80s??? I thought a buck twenty five would be about right.

 

[bigwheelzip]

Used to fill a 2.5gal can for the lawn mower, and get change back on a dollar.

 

[da gimp]

$.17.9 to $.19.9 a gallon for leaded gas in Slater, Mo. back in 1969-1970.... I can't remember it being any cheaper but am told it was in the early to mid 1960's.

 

[Stan O]

Lowest gas price

17 cents a gallon in 1966 during a gas war.

 

[Bill Bates]

Lowest I remember in the 1970s was about in the .20-.30 cent range.

Thursday evening I paid $1.519 to fill my Fj which sure feels better than $4.059.

 

[snake803]

$.19.9 Gulf...I was pumping gas for $1.25/ hr. and the year was 1961...
JIM...............

 

[the ringo kid]

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

No but, I liked your post anyway.

 

[the ringo kid]

Where did you get gas for .50/gal in the 80s??? I thought a buck twenty five would be about right.

That's what I remember paying when Patti was my girlfriend. I lived less than 50 miles from several refineries and we always had the lowest prices in the country, then someone high up had that changed. Not sure what year it was changed, mid 90s I believe? Now were on par or slightly higher than parts of the country that have no nearby refineries. Also, many switching over to summer blend now, so they are rising, about a dime this past week.

 

[rwsmith]

As soon as you cross from SC into NC on I-26..

Gas goes up .20-.30/gallon. It's always like this, no matter what the price situation.

 

[AABEN]

In 1956 I payed 18 gas war 26 Ethel at reg price

 

[Eagle 477]

1969 Clark Air Base Philippines gas was $.17 a gallon I had both a car and Motorcycle to fill up.

 

[LostintheOzone]

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!

442, now we're talkin. You could smoke the tread right off those rear tires in short order. My mom had a 65 Cutlass. That was a 442 with an auto tranny. She never could figure out why her rear tires were always bald.

 

[G.T. Smith]

I did that.....

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...

My deal was that I ran out of gas in a '62 Thunderbird late at night. There was a gas station about a half a mile down the road that I frequented. They had about ten or so pumps. I found a quart jar in the trunk, took it down there and filled it up. That was enough to get me there and I drained all the hoses and got enough to make it to the next town which was about 2 miles.
I didn't buy any at the time but I remember back about '57 or '58 some gas stations had a price war and one guy was selling gas for 4 cents a gallon. I think the average price at the time was about 9 cents or so.
Peace,
Gordon

 

[luangtom]

I bevlieve 18-cents was the lowest I paid in the '60s. It was 25-cents per gallon in MN and we paid 18-cents in San Antonio, TX visiting my sister.

 

[CajunBass]

I seem to remember SEEING it for .19 cents, but about the lowest I remember paying was maybe 25-30 cents. That would have been about 1970 or so. I remember paying $2.00 and running all week back and forth to school.

Of course back then I made about $1.60 an hour.

 

[brick]

The lowest I ever paid was .129 during a gas war when I was in college.

 

[Krell1]

When I started driving in 1965 I could get gas for 25 cents a gallon. Sometimes a gas war would start and you could get it even lower but 25 cents was average. A 20 gallon tank that was down to a quarter tank would run you about $4 to fill up. Of course back then, wages were not what they are today. Minimum wage then was $1.50 an hour. I worked straight out of high school and earned that minimum wage. I moved up to a job that paid all of $2.00 and hour when I bought my first car. It was new and ran me $1600. It was a Chevy Corvair, one of the worst cars I ever owned. I'm so old now it's amazing I can remember back that far.

 

[CH4]

How many remember when ARCO handed out free hot wheels and plastic animals to fill the plastic Noah's Arc?

 

[pharris]

I paid $1.22/gal yesterday, that is probably cheaper than the 29.9 I remember from 1970