Cheapest Gas Paid Ever?

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blackcurrents78@reddit

96 cents a gallon in Indiana mid 90’s.

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cuisinart-hatrack@reddit

I recall paying $0.88/gal I the early 80s.

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mathewtyler@reddit

Negative money, during covid19; the illegitimate Dotard didn't make the deal though so instead of being the new Saudi Arabia, here we are and here's your sign.

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hiirogen@reddit

I remember helping my parents pump gas as a kid at around 60 cents. But gas prices in CA crossed the $1/gal pretty much right when I got my license and started paying for gas.

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Local_Analyst7404@reddit

.25 cents in California in the sixties.

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drjoe2003@reddit

Not as old as some of you, but cheapest non-gas-war price was 67 cents per gallon in February’98

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gingerthetrailpup@reddit (OP)

Holy geez … I was paying $0.32 more 10 years earlier

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It was at the QuikTrip convenience store in Columbia, MO. Cheap gas state, winter prices usually ran lower. I remember almost not buying it because the price kept falling but I was almost out. I think I saw the price fall to 65 cents but then it went up and never back down there again

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drjoe2003@reddit

For me, that is

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ExtensionDull@reddit

18.9 in Salt Lake City in the late 60's

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Due_Deal_6122@reddit

Michigan 1980, .32 a gallon and have a Polaroid to provide it. Cost me $4 to fil up my Nova.

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Strict-Air2434@reddit

Missouri, 1971, 27 cents.

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Reasonable_Crow2086@reddit

My earliest memory of a gas price is.89.

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cshoe29@reddit

The first price I can remember is 73 cents a gallon. You had to wait in line for 1.5 to 2 hours to get it.

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JazzyJeff58@reddit

0.29.

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delmus1@reddit

.19 in 1972

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Basic_Cover_6945@reddit

Frequently under a dollar before 1992

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usually-just-lurking@reddit

29.9 cents

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Ilsluggo@reddit

Boomer here. 29.9¢/gal. I didn’t actually pay it, but it was the first time I became aware of gas prices as a kid. Probably c.1965 or so.

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Ebemi@reddit

89 cents in the late 90s

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Solostinhere@reddit

.99

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Hobbit1955@reddit

$0.299/gal back in 1972. Cheapest I have ever paid. You could go out with 3 buddies, and if everyone kicked in $1, you had over a 1/2 tank!!

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eVilleMike@reddit

In the days of local gas wars (1960s), I remember Regular Leaded getting down around 22¢ - usually closer to 30 or 35.

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Practical-Cow-4564@reddit

$0.39 gallon in 1965.

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miseeker@reddit

18.9 in 72. 2 independent stations right next to each other having a dashboard

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Excellent-Pitch-7579@reddit

$0.87 in 1997 or so

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Dry_Possession_4776@reddit

$.69 summer of 86

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Iride3wheels@reddit

79¢ a gallon when I got my license to drive.

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BC1966@reddit

$.26 a gallon in the late 50’s

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gingerthetrailpup@reddit (OP)

What the heck … late 50’s is not genX 😂

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KittiesRule1968@reddit

$1 a gallon premium in 1986

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H-is-for-Hopeless@reddit

I can remember $0.99 when I was a kid.

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pogmathoin@reddit

1975 - 55 cents a gallon.

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MicheleAmanda@reddit

Back in the early 2000s (excuse my memory) when gas was like $4.29, I pulled into a chain gas station with eight pumps. As I prepared to get my regular, I heard one of the other pumpers say that the mid grade price had apparently been punched in wrong. A minute later, everyone was on their phones, and shortly thereafter there was a huge line of people buying mid grade gas. Not at $4.29, but at the mistaken bargain price of $2.49!!

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burkarm@reddit

1987 — $. 75 a gallon.

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Initial_Fill_2655@reddit

I believe it was 27 to 30 cents a gallon when I was a teen in US.

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sitewolf@reddit

I still remember sitting in HS Econ in the early 70s when a friend, whose father ran a local gas station, said 'Dad thinks gas prices might go up, but they'll never get to 50 cents a gallon'. There were 29 cent 'gas wars' going on at the time.

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RushRealistic4816@reddit

I learned to drive in 1989 and my (romanticized!?) memory thinks gas was $1/gallon or less for the first several years I was driving.

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Tr33_Frawg@reddit

I once paid .10 a gallon in 2013.

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Happy_Machine_1@reddit

I remember when I learned to drive. 1991. .89.

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teddy406@reddit

Paid around .70 in 1979. Would now like to pay 1.25 like we did during covid

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teichholtz@reddit

.27 in 1971

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obijuan76@reddit

1993...about .75 cents a gallon.

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Prestigious-Fan3122@reddit

About 1968. I remember being in the car when my dad pulled up to the gas pump. He told me to focus my attention on the numbers that were spinning around, and showed me that gas was $.25 a gallon. Then he had me watch as a little dial reflected $.25, $.50, $.75, one dollar, $1.25, and so on.

He made EVERYTHING a lesson!

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califbeach@reddit

. 23¢ in '67. There used to be something called a "gas war" where stations would try to undercut price on competitors.

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freebenvita@reddit

Why were you driving at two years old?

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califbeach@reddit

16

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freebenvita@reddit

I eventually figured out that people besides GenX were answering 😅

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Classic-Ad4403@reddit

9.9 cents during gas war in the 1960s. Yes, that is just under ten cents/gal. Really!! Normal price was around 30 cents.

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Independent-Point380@reddit

Yes, I remember 29.9 cents

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Classic-Ad4403@reddit

I worked at a gas station while in HS. We were about 30 miles from a large city so our gas was a little higher than the metro area. Ours was 34.9 for regular and 38.9 for Ethyl.

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4x4Welder@reddit

I remember right around $.90-$1 in the late 90s, I could fill my tank for about 2 hrs of my just over minimum wage job.

I make way over minimum wage now, and it costs about 2hrs worth to fill my truck.

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False-Cookie3379@reddit

Late 90s, I remember $.70 a gallon. When i graduated high school, we had outrageously high priced gas at $1.35/gallon. Oklahoma.

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TheOsirisOfThisShit_@reddit

Adjusted for inflation, 1999 is the cheapest gas has ever been. Oil prices halved to $12/barrel.

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Neat-Ladder8987@reddit

1963, my mom came home and bragged about getting 5 gallons of reg for less than a dollar.

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Appropriate_Ad9157@reddit

I remember going to the Mobil station with a 1gal can and asking for a dollars worth. The guy said can wasnt big enough

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Unusual-Material9443@reddit

back in the 60's before i was driving i remember it being as low as 19 cents. when i started driving in '75, it was about 50 cents.

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ActuaryFew6884@reddit

0.819 (i.e. 81.9 cents) in the fall of 1998, in Central Pennsylvania

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PinkSasquatch77@reddit

Between 200-2004 I distinctly recall it dropping to about a $1 a gallon. I can’t recall why.

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Unlikely-Low-8132@reddit

75 cents a gallon when I started driving and I had a V-8

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purplishfluffyclouds@reddit

I vaguely remember it being $0.79/gallon

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hexadecimaldump@reddit

I’m either very young Gen X or very old millennial. Right after I got my license in 1996-97, gas prices were plummeting. A few gas stations had it for 70-80¢ per gallon.

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Professional-Spare13@reddit

0.25 a gallon. This was in 1973 and the gas was purchased on base (Navy brat here!)

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Soggy-Advantage4711@reddit

$0.89 on the Jersey side of the Ben Franklin Bridge circa 1995

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MountainTomato9292@reddit

Mid-90’s, Arkansas, $0.87/gallon

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ExitTheHandbasket@reddit

0.199 per US gallon in 1975.

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-jwb3@reddit

28 cents/gal San Diego 1972

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Bay_de_Noc@reddit

Gas was around .30¢ when I graduated from high school in 1966.

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StevenSaguaro@reddit

1973, driving through New Mexico, my father had just filled up when he saw gas for .18 cents, so naturally he stopped and topped off again.

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Entire-Order3464@reddit

Gas was under a dollar in 97 in much of the Midwest.

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donnacus@reddit

$0.17/gal at the off brand station 1966

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gingerthetrailpup@reddit (OP)

I was not even born yet in 1966 😂

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donnacus@reddit

I didn’t actually pay that for gas. My mom did while driving me to elementary school.

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millerg44@reddit

I remember my dad paying 32 cents a gallon in the 1970's. This was California and full service.

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nate8088@reddit

Gas was under $1 when I was a teenager in the early 90s. We still thought it was a ton of money. Of course, cars also got about 12 mpg.

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ToasterBath4613@reddit

$0.68 in rural SC 1994

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splimp@reddit

I used to put one whole English pounds worth of petrol in my 125cc motorbike and than used to last me a week of commuting and tooling around.

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mattdb110@reddit

36 cents, 1973, Daytona Beach Fl. Yep I'm getting old.🤣🤣

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casewood123@reddit

I remember being able to buy a pack of cigarettes and a gallon of gas for a dollar.

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No-Village1834@reddit

Tell me you’re not GenX without telling me you’re not GenX

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casewood123@reddit

I was born in 1965. So yes, I’m Gen X. The cigarettes were for my mom, who I would give me a dollar for her cigarettes, and I got to keep the change for gas for my dirt bike. I’ll take my apology now.

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No-Village1834@reddit

all right mate, ya got me... You didn't say you were only buying ONE gallon of gas...the rest of us were assuming a full car tank. And not being a smoker.

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MaximumJones@reddit

No GenX were driving in 1977.

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casewood123@reddit

Dirt bike. 1978 Honda XR 75. So smarty pants, what say you know?

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Hu5k3r@reddit

. 69.california 1989 I think

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queenhabib@reddit

When I started driving at 1 it was like 99 cents a gallon!!! I remember people being sooo mad when it hit $1!!! Miss those days!!!

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bimichguy09@reddit

1992 it was .77 cents in Michigan

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JSTootell@reddit

1989? Gas was under $1 in the mid 90's in SoCal!

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Ztunyknum@reddit

With the fuel saver, I prepaid $20. The gas came out to 12 cents. I pulled twelve pennies from the tray and asked for my twenty back.

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INS_Stop_Angela@reddit

When I was a kid, there was a commercial with a teen driving a car with a barefoot gas medal… he buys $0.25 worth of gas. In fact gas was $0.25/gallon when I got my driver’s license.

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TheRealDylanTobak@reddit

I remember it being under a dollar in the early 90s.

I think it got down as low as 1.15 in my area during the Covid lockdowns.

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therottenron@reddit

$.15 a gal. in 1973 at Clark AB Philippines

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StrangeworldsUnited@reddit

76 cents per gal on Tinker AFB in 1989

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storf2021@reddit

I was remembering differently than many of these posts so I googled prices. 1979-1980 gas in US when from .63/gallon to 1.19-1.22/gallon.

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Worldly-Ad-7156@reddit

I remember 0.849$ gallon about 1998. Had a hatchback so full tank cost $10.00.

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d3odorant@reddit

Same. I drove to Mexico for Spring Break in 1998 and a gas station in St. Louis had gas for 84.9 cents a gallon and sold Surge. I took a pic of the sign in disbelief... not because of the Surge advertisement, but the price of gas.

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Erazzphoto@reddit

I can remember .99 around 1999

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SinamonChallengerRT@reddit

When I first started driving in 1985, gas was $.90/gallon.

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LaughingGravy13@reddit

.15 cents in the 60s, with full service, a free glass, and free maps.

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jackman924@reddit

$.19/gallon in the early 70s.

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Cyberspots156@reddit

.33¢ in 1972

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ritereward@reddit

.29. About .59 in high school we would all pool our change and fill the tank of what ever car we piled in

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OriginalObjective287@reddit

1976 First fill up in my first car: 55 cents per gallon!

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Suspicious_Art9118@reddit

We had 89 cents a gallon in 1998ish, when a new station opened and started a price war

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SciFi_Wasabi999@reddit

I remember $0.97 in 1997 because of the symmetry. Those were good times because I was making minimum wage and could still drive my car.

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decent_kitten@reddit

83 cents a gallon. It was wonderful! And it didn’t go up above a dollar for years… 1989 and it was still under a dollar. I drove a 1979 Honda Civic and I could drive for a week on $5!

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ContributionDry2252@reddit

Somewhere around 2,80 in late eighties

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AlyceEnchanted@reddit

I remember gas being under $1. Have been told ‘not in my lifetime.’

We cruised on the weekend. Man, the people lucky enough to have one of the muscle cars. The rumble of the engine. Burning rubber.

My kid has never experienced cruising. Didn’t even get his license until after 25. It is common. Can you imagine?

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Low_Shop8561@reddit

The gas we stole from a dairy

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jawshoeaw@reddit

I filled up my beetle for $0.69 in 1989 in North Carolina

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HowsMyBuddy@reddit

Don’t the older ones have a 10 or 10.5 gallon tank? So you were paying 7 cents per gallon in 1989?

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jawshoeaw@reddit

whoops i meant to say "i filled up my beetle at $0.69/gallon"

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FeistyOrdinary5860@reddit

.88¢

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False-Average-9368@reddit

From the time I got my license to about 1997, I could pay for a full tank of gas with my bottle returns.

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HappyHolidayHomo@reddit

LPG 26c a litre in 1998.

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goodhumorman85@reddit

It was under $1 more recently than that. I was on my way home from Boston in 1999 and remember feeling like I got gouged when I paid $0.89/gallon off the highway.

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Aggravating_Hat4799@reddit

NYC in the 70s. .35 per gallon

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Not_On_Formulary@reddit

1999 in MN 89 cents per gallon And a pack of cigarettes wasn't too much more.😉

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wriddell@reddit

Early 80’s central California $0.52

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Usual-Computer7801@reddit

Late 90's, btwn .77 -.79 cents in northern Ohio- and there was no self service there - and no crazy tipping requirements either.

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OldLifeguard-00@reddit

I paid 99¢ in 2020

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La_croix_addict@reddit

Where? In the Middle East?

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MaximumJones@reddit

Nope, during the pandemic gas stations were paying 50 cents per gallon. They colluded to keep the price at $1.

Where were you?

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La_croix_addict@reddit

Miami Beach. I’ve never seen those prices in this lifetime.

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GenX-ModTeam@reddit

{community rule 6}

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MaximumJones@reddit

That's exactly where I was and I most certainly saw those prices. 🤷‍♀️

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OldLifeguard-00@reddit

There is no way that FL was more expensive than IL in 2020.

You were asleep at the wheel. It was like that for a solid 6-7 weeks before it crept to like $1.25

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shuanm@reddit

I filled up everything I own for $1.09/gal during the lockin.

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Classic-Artist8102@reddit

29.9 1965 Oklahoma

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Similar_Whole_9946@reddit

$0.55/gallon circa 1976, Tennessee

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showme10ds@reddit

75c late 70s I recall in CA

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Active_Air_2311@reddit

1996 or 1997 .99 cents in utah. Not for very long, though

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xEVOlution85x@reddit

2001 .93/g TN. Lost our shit when it went $1.03 around 02

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Sad_Alfalfa6007@reddit

79 cent in 1978. Hawaii

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kelly1mm@reddit

went to law school 78 miles each way from 2000-2004 3 days a week so I was acutely aware of gas prices. In MD the price of gas was between 95 cents a gallon to $1.29 a gallon for those years

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EmploymentEmpty5871@reddit

Back when I worked at a service station they were having a gas war. 24 cents a gallon for regular.

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Rogerdodger1946@reddit

1958 Kentucky gas war $0.14 I'm old.

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BuDu1013@reddit

Oct 28 2025

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kalelopaka@reddit

In 1974 I was paying 52¢ per gallon to fill my mini bike, was a quarter to fill the two quart tank. When I got my license in 1982, gas was around 60¢ per gallon. While working in a full service station from 84-89, gas fluctuated from 69¢ to 95¢ per gallon, and went over a dollar a couple times during my last year. Still our delivery invoices from the terminal was 52.9¢ per gallon the entire time I worked there.

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theninal@reddit

1999, western South Dakota. 89¢ a gallon unleaded.

On the other hand, I couldn't tell you what percentage of that gallon was water.

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Fair-Wishbone-1190@reddit

As a fellow South Dakota and I grew up here in South Dakota, I can remember paying .69 when I was a teenager and we could put in $5 to last the whole night of cruising when I was in high school.. today I went and got gas and it was $4.79. absolutely crazy thank God I have a small tank, but still I feel bad for people that have a huge tank and have to fill that up, I bet it cost them close to 80 bucks if not more.

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MembershipKlutzy1476@reddit

1995, OKC. 65 cents a gallon

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judgejooj@reddit

When I was 18 in 1995 I worked at a Truck Stop that had a sister gas station at the next highway exit in our small SoCal town. I got the fax each morning with prices so we could reset them. The cheapest I saw was $.95/gallon, two days later we were back up to $.99.

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LuckyTrain4@reddit

I remember $0.639 in 1989 when I go my license

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crit_boy@reddit

Same place.

We had to give my friend's sister gas money for a ride to school freshman year. We'd usually give her a dollar or two in change.

Gas was in the high 50 to mid 60 cent per gallon range.

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LuckyTrain4@reddit

We must have rode together.

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natelopez53@reddit

$.079 my senior year of high school (1997)

It used to cost me like $11 to fill up. Now that’s just over 2 gallons

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DragonfruitOpen4496@reddit

You must have had a huge tank if you paid well under a penny for gas and it still cost 11 dollars. LOL.

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natelopez53@reddit

Ha! Dangit. Got me

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SpeedRacer_1968@reddit

1992 I drove from southern NH to New Brunswick, CA. Most of the trip was just under 1$US per gallon. I fueled up in Maine for 1.20$US a gallon since the Canadian equivalent was about 2.50$ a gallon. I was able to get around and never have to refuel while in Canada.

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Trike117@reddit

For a brief while gas was 50 to 60 cents a gallon in the mid 80s. (Beavercreek, Ohio) I don’t know why that was but I wasn’t going to complain because I drove a 1974 Chevy station wagon while in college.

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pucspifo@reddit

I once paid $0.01/gallon, but it was clearly a mistake on the pump pricing. Regular price was just about $1.

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ForsakenDrama3580@reddit

Old as dirt. I’ve seen gas for.08 cents per gallon during a gas war in the 50’s. Paid 12 cents for some in 1966. Normal gas was 30-36 cents depending on brand.

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Phish_2000@reddit

.70 cents

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NotDougMasters@reddit

I remember regularly paying between .89 and 1.10 in the mid-late 90s in Oklahoma

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die_bartman@reddit

Paid 69 cents at a basic fuel station in Mo in the late 90s

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NotDougMasters@reddit

Nice.

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OkJoke4711@reddit

I remember .89¢ being common. My Mom remembers it at .25¢.

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dojo1306@reddit

When I got my license it was 29 cents a gallon. I was young and still had to scrape around for gas money or split with friends.

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die_bartman@reddit

gas grass or ass

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RaceSlow7798@reddit

Cheapest I ever personally paid was $0.83 at a Hess in Athens Ga in ‘88

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invader000@reddit

0.259 special when a new Sheetz opened.

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Neither_Pudding7719@reddit

Since I have been driving (1982) probably.93?

But remember my dad paying 43.9

I think 🤔

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TreyRyan3@reddit

I remember paying $0.97 for Amoco Supreme which means Regular would have been $0.77 a gallon.

That was the gas price change that irritated me the most. It was always a $0.10 difference between fuel grades for years. Then suddenly it was like $0.50 difference. Coupled with the sudden onslaught of cars that suddenly state “Use XX octane or higher only”.

Yes refining is slightly more expensive, but that price difference has been proven to belittle more than an increased retail profit margin.

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sr1sws@reddit

That's OK. I remember $.35/gallon as a normal price and $.18/gallon during "gas wars".

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rking524@reddit

15 cents

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TrollBot6@reddit

19.9 cents per gallon

Yes, I'm that old.

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SJ58655966@reddit

$.53/gallon. Mid-80s. California.

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BackLopsided2500@reddit

Whatever it was in the 70s. I can't even remember.

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TheRealLostSoul@reddit

23 cents per gallon. It was somewhere in the American South West in 1980 something. I was about 8 years old. We were moving from Illinois to California. There were 2 gas stations across from each other. One advertised fuel at 23 cents per gallon, the other at 24. Even at that age, I recognized those prices were abnormal. When I asked my father about it, he replied with something about a probable "gas war".

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rodwha@reddit

I recall the regular price of 99¢/gal when I got my first car, my great grandma’s ‘76 Nova. Good thing as it drank gasoline!

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loseunclecuntly@reddit

23 cents a gallon. Long time ago when they had gas wars between stations.

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SmokinHotNot@reddit

During the gas wars it was about $0.22 / gallon. In the 60s I believe.

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AnySignificance4361@reddit

1972 Sacramento CA $0.26. I drove a fiat 650 spider. $2 filled her up

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No_Alternative_675@reddit

25 cents per gallon

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NeuroguyNC@reddit

Lowest price I recall was from c.1965 at $0.249 per gallon. ($2.57 adjusted for inflation.) At that time you would get full service and with a 10 gallon minimum "fill up" you could get a premium like a dish towel or ice tea glass.

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drhagbard_celine@reddit

First tank of gas when I got my license in 1990 was $1.01/gallon.

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ConsistentYard9188@reddit

1972 southeast Missouri $.32

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drhagbard_celine@reddit

This is a Gen X sub. You bought gas when you were 7?

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kurtstoys@reddit

I know this isn't in the spirit of the question, but at a gas station called spinx i get .15 off per gallon for every 2 20oz sodas.. i got it to .01 per gallon. Filled up my truck and a 5 gallon jug for .20 of ethanol free. Youd think they had raised the prices of the sodas, but its the same price as other places.

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tonna33@reddit

HyVee grocery store has fuel saver. Buy certain things, or spend a certain amount of money, and you get so much off per gallon of gas. My husband works that! We have saved $493.03 in gas so far this year (the app tells me the amount).

We don't buy things we won't use. We time our grocery shopping for days when they have "Get $0.40 off a gallon for each $60 you spend" (or something similar but with different amounts). We do the math for things that might cost a bit more so we know if the savings we get on fuel will actually make it a good deal or not.

Husband saves it up so it's always an $0.18 tank of gas, plus the extra put in a gas can.

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AffectionateSun5776@reddit

.49

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endlesssearch482@reddit

Yup, my parents were paying $.51-.54 a gallon when I was a kid. Least I ever paid was $1.13.

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tonna33@reddit

around 1998, living in Texas. I could sometimes get it at a Diamond Shamrock for $0.78/gallon.

That's the lowest I remember. I started driving in the early 90s.

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AdhesivenessEqual166@reddit

I started driving in 1980. I remember prices being in the $0.70 - $0.80 range. I drove a Honda Civic station wagon. It didn't take much to fill it up, and it had great gas mileage.

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mishabear16@reddit

I remember those days too. I graduated in 1981. Had a Dodge Colt wagon. Could fill up from fumes under $10.

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Mk1Racer25@reddit

I remember my dad about how he drove from Ohio to California in the early 1960's for <$50 in gas. I also remember seeing gas prices in the high teens in the late 60's or early 70's. There were two gas stations across the street from each other, and they always had gas wars. It cost my dad <$2 to fill the car up!

When I started driving in the mid 70's, gas was $0.50/gallon, +/-.

I also remember regular being <$1/gallon in the early 90's. Between my wife and I, I don't think we spent $100/month for gas during that time.

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WillumDafoeOnEarth@reddit

$0.499 before the 1970s oil embargo.

Oy I’m old.

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sbvtguy34567@reddit

How are you genx and driving then

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WillumDafoeOnEarth@reddit

I’m Generation Jones. Tween boomers & GenX.

Got my license in 1977 & remembered the gas lines in 1973. When it happened again in ‘79 is when gas leapt from 49.9 cents to 80 cents or more.

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Twistedanddemented73@reddit

I started driving in 1989 and it was 98-99 cents a gallon.

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AncientGuy1950@reddit

Lowest I ever paid was also the first tank of gas I bought for my first truck: $.32 a gallon... in 1968. There was a gas war between two stations that drove the price down from $.35.

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RandomObserver13@reddit

Hmm…when I started working at a gas station in CNY in 87, gas was just under a buck (and we still sold regular, though it was soon replaced by unleaded plus, I think the octane went 87/89/93), cigs were $1.20, a gallon of washer fluid was a buck, and a quart of oil was around $0.75. That’s all we sold. We had a “computer” that we printed off end of shift but the official numbers came from reading the “odometers” on the pumps, which we had to try to get when there were no customers so we could count out properly. Couldn’t get them til closing? Too bad, you weren’t getting paid for that extra hour (gotta count all the cig packs and cartons too). But you’d get it back when you accidentally slept in on a Sunday. Need change on the weekend? Call mom and hope the grocery store down the street can help (they always did). Listen to the radio and call in to win tix to Def Leppard? Hell yeah.

Awesome first job.

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UncleSlayton77@reddit

I remember seeing it at $0.58 when I was a little kid in the early '80s.

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Maleficent_State7033@reddit

I remember paying $0.99 in 1994

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hysteria110176@reddit

Oh god - $0.79 - $0.89 sometime in the 90s lol didn’t have camera phones back then to record everything

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Civil_Fall_3914@reddit

It was well under a dollar during my high school years mid to late eighties.

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Zaphod1620@reddit

I specifically remember a Bloom County strip that talked about $.69 gas in the late 80s. I have no idea why I remember that. Also, remember the ¢ sign? I remember using it a lot back in the day.

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EFCF@reddit

Yes! I actually think about this particular BC often! I forget the setup, but the punchline was someone saying to their out-of-frame partner, "forget the milk! The cat drinks unleaded from now on!"

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Zaphod1620@reddit

That's it! "Honey, fill up the trunk!"

I tried to find it to see when it was published, but no luck.

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jkki1999@reddit

Bloom County was the best!!!

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Naive_Product_5916@reddit

I think .35 in the 80s SW usa.

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Intrepid-Entrance460@reddit

The lowest price I remember filling up was $0.65/gal in 1986. But at the time it was a 1975 Chrysler Newport. 400 cu-in V8 that pinged with less than 92 octane. It got maybe 12 mpg downhill with a tailwind and had a \~25gal tank. Most of my $3.35/hr job at Bradlees department store went to buying gas to get to/from work.

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Clewin@reddit

It could be worse, my parents let me start driving their Aries K wagon that could barely get to highway speeds going downhill with a tailwind. I struggled with the stick shift on the other car, but eventually got it. I think the cheapest I ever saw was $.78 a few years after that because OPEC countries had a spat and glutted the market with oil. It was up to like $2.35 before that. Gas had a ceiling of $.99 for several years, then spiked up fast. Minimum wage when I started working was at least a state mandated $4.25 and went up $.25 in my first year (I quit that job because my forced $.25 raise was what new hires got - I was not the only one - we worked at a posh golf course with $20000 membership fees - over $55000 today).

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Aamrie69@reddit

That i can recall... 99 cents in 1999. Florida

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StopAskingMeForThat@reddit

$0.79, on several occasions in high school and college

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Mountain-Sell-8414@reddit

Senior year of High School, ‘96, it was 94¢ a gallon. I can remember when it when over a dollar for the first time and everyone in my area lost their minds

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OriolesMagic1972@reddit

When I was dating my husband in 1999ish, it was 99 cents/gallon in VA. I had a manual Toyota Tercel that was a gas sipper, so life was good.

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spookybatshoes@reddit

I remember 75¢ a gallon when I started driving in about '93, but I live close to the Gulf and gas prices are usually cheaper here than most of the country.

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worrymon@reddit

I learned odd and even because of the license plate rationing during the Oil Embargo.

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mrkurt426@reddit

I remember gas at around 75-90 cents here in Ohio in the 1986-87 period. I know it may have been less than that when I was a boy; I do remember the oil embargo in 1973-74.

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SimpleVegetable5715@reddit

I remember regular being 87-89 cents a gallon for most of the 1990’s in Texas. My friends and I would ask people in high school for spare change. If we could each get $1-2 in coins, that meant we had enough to pitch in for gas to get around town for the evening in my friend’s Oldsmobile, which we all piled into. Just had to pay for food and the movie.

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texasdeathtrip@reddit

A long time ago?

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Appropriate-Pair-915@reddit

12 cents a gallon in Bartlesville Ok in 1968. A old fashioned gas war. My dad filled up 3 times in 4 blocks.

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El_diablo_blanco_27@reddit

Who cares? Unless you have time machine made out of a Delorean it's long gone.

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Feisty_Conclusion_87@reddit

Spring/ Summer 1999 gas was .99 cents a gallon. I used to fill up at Crown gas station. My college roomies and I still remenber how that still has been the cheapest gas ever.

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ctgjerts@reddit

.84 in 1985 central South Dakota.

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litterboxhero@reddit

When I started driving in 90, I could fill up my tank, get a Dr. Pepper, Snickers bar and change for $20. I was paying like $0.759 a gallon at the time.

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Pavementaled@reddit

$0.65 in 1988 for leaded gas. I would take all my friends home and they would each give me a quarter. Gas paid for and then some...

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What-do-I-know32112@reddit

Around 1970 or so, my father was taking my brother and I down to Florida (my grandparents were taking us to Disney World). We stopped for gas in the middle of nowhere Georgia and the price was $0.19 a gallon. Now that was really low even for that time, which is why I remember it. It was full service as well since self service wasn't a thing yet :)

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Dangerous-Warthog995@reddit

25 cents

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ConsultantForLife@reddit

April 18th, 2020 - going into the worst part of Covid. No one was driving, used the local grocery chain gas discount. Price is on top, gallons on bottom. I think that comes out to 29 cents/gallon.

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Superb_Pineapple8187@reddit

.27 a gallon in 1965. When there were gas wars it would drop a few cents

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Infamous_Teach_1189@reddit

When I was a kid in the city of Chicago about 1984 I pumped my mom's gas into her Nova behind the license plate for 0.95 cents a gallon.

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denzien@reddit

$0.97/ga in 1998 in SE Louisiana. SoCal at that time was $2+ already, so that was quite the shock.

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HonoluluLongBeach@reddit

99¢ a gallon in Kissimmee Florida in 1994.

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DaWalt1976@reddit

I also remember gas being low.. In California. When I first returned from a Navy Air Facility in Japan, Gas at a local 76 was only $0.92 a gallon.

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FletchWazzle@reddit

Gas and Monarch cigarettes were both under a buck when I was younger

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OnehappyOwl44@reddit

.59 litre in Canada in the early 90's.

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thegoodrichard@reddit

.43/gallon in the early 70's

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japhia_aurantia@reddit

I remember paying 95 cents when I was in college in Stockton CA in 1998

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Snoo58207@reddit

This question always makes me think of a disgusting example of how things have changed.

There were a gas stations on three corners of one of the bigger intersections in my home town. When Operation Desert Storm kicked off gas prices spiked. First time I ever saw it over .90. Then one of those three gas stations decided to undercut the others. Over a couple weeks three kept undercutting each other until gas got down to .74 and they all stayed there for a couple months.

Now the gas stations are just waiting for the ones near by to raise the price .05 so they can go up .10. Within 12 days I paid a difference of $1.08 more per gallon.

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lazygerm@reddit

I bought my first car in late 1992.

I remember paying $0.98 to $1.02 around then. A $10 bill would fill my 1988 Escort's tank and I could go a week between fill ups.

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SarcasticGirl27@reddit

I remember $.99/gallon in the early 90’s. I had a tiny car with a 10 gallon tank. I used to drive my grandfather around in the mornings on Thursdays & he would fill the tank with $10. It was awesome! That tank would last me a week!

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VeniVidiVici_19@reddit

I remember $0.79 in the mid/late nineties.

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rrrrrrez@reddit

Some gas stations around St. Louis were doing .70/gal when McGwire hit #70.

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Disastrous-Duty-8020@reddit

.69 cents in Texas around 1997

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Hedonistic_Yinzer@reddit

I worked at a full service gas station around the late '80s and early '90s. I was working the day the prices rolled from $0.98 or so a gallon $1.01 per gallon these were mechanical pumps and the technician had to take the front panel off to manually adjust the price. On one pump he accidentally set the price to $0.01 per haolin. I noticed the inconsistency, after he left, on the 1st couple of cars. I immediately ran inside (obviously no cell phones at the time) called home and told the family to come fill up. I filled all my family and friends plus a few regular customers that gave great tips on that pump. After a few hours I called the supervisor and said I thought there was something wrong and he told me just to stop using the pump. I did not and when someone would pull up to it I would fill their car for pennies. At the end of the day I had basically given away hundreds of gallons of gasoline for almost nothing.

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Possible_Shoulder_50@reddit

I lived in Atlanta in the mid-late 90s. It stayed around .89-1.09 then. It wasn’t until 9/11 when the prices really started to go up. I remember people bitching about $2 gas prices 🤣. We’d love to have that now.

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Gold_Comparison1745@reddit

Around 2000-2001 I remember seeing .99 at the pump and filled that baby up. In TX.

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SoundUnheard@reddit

.59 for Regular in 1985 in Cali.

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FETTACH@reddit

Place across the street from my home when I first learned to drive circa 1997-1998 was .87¢ a gallon.

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thisisstupid-@reddit

I don’t remember individual gas prices but I know I used to be able to fill up my Dodge neon plus get a bottle of Diet Coke and a pack of Marlboro reds for $20.

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learningbydoing2025@reddit

I remember moving from Texas and seeing the gas Go from less than a dollar to more than a dollar blew my mind

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m149@reddit

Like $0.65 back in the early 90s.

I still remember the last time I paid under $1 for gas, which was twice at a local gas station back in 1999 where the gas was 99c/gal.

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thedudeintx82@reddit

$0.79 in South Texas back in 1998. I miss those days.

I have a diesel truck and pay close to $5 now. When we're not in this bs oil crisis, I'm happy when I get to pay under $3.

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hemibearcuda@reddit

County line, middle of nowhere, late 80's I was able to get gas for .90 cents a gallon.

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LojikSupreme@reddit

The last cheapest gas I paid for that I can remember was summer of 1996, quick road trip to Pittsburgh gas was $0.99 a gallon!

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ArtistJames1313@reddit

I want to say it was around ¢49. I was probably 13 or 14, but driving on the farm and had to fill up a truck or two. But mostly back then we just got gas from the tankers my grandpa kept on the farm and had filled up once a month for all the machinery.

Once I actually had a license and filled up my own car it was ¢70 ish.

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amp7274@reddit

It was 79-90 cents a gallon in Mo is the mid to late 90s

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jsharr2@reddit

I’d pass through Georgia on my way home from college back in the late 90s. I specifically remember waiting to hit the Georgia line because gas was $0.88/gallon.

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eghhge@reddit

$.25 per gallon back before the 70's gas crisis

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The__Relentless@reddit

I was paying $0.97 in Texas in 1996.

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match_@reddit

I distinctly remember walking to FasGas to get cigarettes for my sister and noticing that both cigs and gas were 50¢. Probably around 79 or 80. I wasn’t driving yet though, so doesn’t really count, but I did get to practice my rambling ons.

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Stuffed-Bear412@reddit

I'm not sure it was the cheapest, but I've paid $.99 before, that I specifically remember.

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butterflygardyn@reddit

Late '90s. 62 cents/ gallon. Two gas stations across the street from each other had a price war that went on for months. I could fill up my tank for under 5 dollars.

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TheLurkerSpeaks@reddit

Yes! Lowest prices in my gas-buying life. I was in college and needed that break.

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Lewdubs@reddit

For me, it was in the 90¢ range. I had an old Datsun that took regular gas and I remember one time regular was 98¢ per gallon and unleaded was $1.15. I thought I was lucky. Shortly after that I got a unleaded car and never paid under $1 after that. This was probably 87-90.

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LoudMind967@reddit

I remember like 42¢ when I was a kid before the gas shortage. I myself paid 98¢ in 1993. I started buying gas in 1985 but I don't remember the prices

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pagette44@reddit

1987 - about $.65 IIRC

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AlfhildsShieldmaiden@reddit

Only once in my lifetime, in California, gas dipped below a dollar. It was mid-to-late 90s, in San Jose, gas was 99¢/gal.

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fuckfacekiller@reddit

.69 cents.

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kboleen@reddit

Cheapest I remember was sixty five cents in March of 1986.

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shotsallover@reddit

Same. I didn’t pay it, my mom did. But I remember that price. And it just kept creeping up over time.

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TopspinLob@reddit

For sure under $1.00 in the late 80’s. I remember cuz gas was like $0.95/gallon and Marlboro Reds were $0.95/pack at the Speedway

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Technical_Mood_9279@reddit

I remember paying .95 cents in high school in the late 90s. Those were the days ha!

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lgallagher24@reddit

70 cents a gallon in Port Isabel, Texas, in December 1998.

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coryphella123@reddit

$0.88 in the 90s when I was in college.

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Luxy2801@reddit

1992 in Washington State I saw it go below $1.00 and I'd just filled up. I remember making the suggestion that I drive around a lot so I could refill at the lower price

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Ambitious_Unit1310@reddit

0.87 - 1995

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Confident_Win_5469@reddit

I remember there was a gas war in my province in high school - I was working at a gas station at the time.

I remember paying something like .20/L in the mid to late 90's because of it.

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LayerNo3634@reddit

In high school 3 of us would each pitch in $1 and that got us more than enough gas for all of our cruising around for the weekend. I also remember the news stories: gas station price signs only had 2 digits and would all have to be replaced. That was big news.

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j2142b00@reddit

Late 90s I remember filling up ONCE at .75 cents. I had a F-150 with two 20 gallon gas tanks and I did the happy dance. Most of the time is was .86-.95 cents.

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Sudden_Idea9384@reddit

I drove across country in 1999 and it was .89 in some places. Cheapest drive ever.

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gingerthetrailpup@reddit (OP)

I drove cross country in 1997 .. I do not remember the gas prices …. Just the speeding ticket for going 100 in the middle of nowhere Wyoming with no one around 😬😂

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ImportantBug5757@reddit

In high school—late ‘70s, I paid 49 cents a gallon. My folks had a bulk tank and I would buy 100 gallons a gas a month and Dad let me fill up as many times as I needed. I drove a ‘72 Dodge Charger that guzzled gas ⛽️ School was a 25 mile round trip so I got my monies worth 🤣

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gingerthetrailpup@reddit (OP)

OMG … I think I would have to consider taking out a loan out to buy 100 gal at once in CA these days 😂

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eastcoastflava13@reddit

Mid 90s when I first got my license there was a gas station where I could get 86 octane for $.86.

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atticus_pund77@reddit

I paid low teens , .12 or .14, at Webb City in St. Petersburg during a gas war in the 1960’s.

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sbvtguy34567@reddit

Umm so I don't know how genx was driving in the 60s

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JulesChenier@reddit

Our moms didn't know we took th time machine because it was next to the hose.

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sbvtguy34567@reddit

Lol

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11systems11@reddit

Got my license in '84. It was around $.69/gal IIRC. We'd put $2 in the tank and cruise all day.

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Beginning_Key2167@reddit

In 1987 when I got my first car it was 85 cents. Passed my test in the morning, put in 5 bucks worth and headed to school.

Back then I drove to the testing place by myself with just my permit. Which I am not sure you can do now? My dad went to work. Wished me good luck.

The next day going to school, this girl I liked was waiting for the bus and I stopped and picked her up. We dated for a couple years LOL.

Good times getting my license and a car in high school.

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Ok-Concert-6475@reddit

0.99$/gallon when I left Seattle for college in 1996

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jenieloo@reddit

.69 in college 1992-1996

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largos7289@reddit

I could get regular gas for .69 back in 88.

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kcracker1987@reddit

I worked as a 2nd shift gas jockey at a small Arco station around this time...

$0.69 / gallon for self serve $1.69 / gallon for full serve (yes, I checked fluids and air pressure)

No automatic pumps. I handled all the transactions.

Boss once told me, "If someone drives off after self serve pumping without paying, because you're doing full service, I don't care. The profit makes up for the loss."

It was in Vegas, so I regularly had multiple hundreds of dollars squirrelled around the office, so that I could make change for people who had won at the casinos.

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Sixers2461@reddit

Nice

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OverMlMs@reddit

When I was driving and paying for my own gas in 1995/96 I remember paying .89¢ a gallon (NY)

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WinkysInWilmerding@reddit

$0.99/gal

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ytho-65@reddit

I remember 60 cents in Kansas in the 80s.

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Jason_TheMagnificent@reddit

I remember seeing $1.00 gas in a neighborhood and thought they were all fancy with their high priced fuel.

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attaboy_stampy@reddit

It was mostly under a dollar in the 80s. I remember it cracked a dollar in '89 or '90. I specifically remember this because there was this gas station that opened across from my college (Baylor) in the fall of '90 and they had various opening week specials. They had a day where they charged only a dollar per gallon - because gas was mostly around 1.10 or something - and they called it "Wacky Iraqi Day." This was a few weeks after Desert Shield had begun, thus the reference.

My microeconomics professor kept referring to this the rest of that semester.

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mchisto0450@reddit

$1.09/ gal

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beltedgalaxy@reddit

It was under $1 in the late nineties in northern Illinois.

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badpuffthaikitty@reddit

Gas war 2 towns over. 17.1 cent a litre.

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Ancient-Sink5239@reddit

I remember putting 5$ of gas in my car on a Friday and cruising around all weekend with that.

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Rich_Group_8997@reddit

When i first started driving i recall gas around 85-87¢ a gallon. That was 1993.

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Only_Procedure_33@reddit

$0.25 per gallon. We used to have “gas wars” all the time.

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Accomplished-B@reddit

.85, 92-93 PA

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ChrisRiley_42@reddit

I was paying about $0.48/l back in 1987.

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_frank_tank@reddit

I vaguely remember .97/gal in TX in 1998-99

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angry-software-dev@reddit

I was just under $1/gal in the mid-late 90s in Boston area... I can recall paying 97¢ or so and it didn't seem weird.

What's wild is that minimum wage was $4.75 in 1996 ... and now -- *30 years later * -- it's $7.25.

It's no wonder so many young and middle aged people are feeling miserable and trapped.

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Beatrix_Kitto@reddit

.72 in KY around 1991…and it wasn’t even self serve.

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Boatride65@reddit

I remember .26 cents a gallon.

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Sixers2461@reddit

$1.29 during the recession in the 2010s

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Glum-One2514@reddit

$.85 /gallon. 1986 or 87 in Michigan.

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imagine966@reddit

Free as a teenager in the 1980s if you knew where to go

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tazerpruf@reddit

I remember paying about .75 in HS in the early 80s. I had a Capri and 5 bucks would get me almost a half tank and I was good for the weekend.

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ArlapOfDion@reddit

14.9 in the early 2000s. Bad pump but the owner said it was ok and thanked me for letting them know. 23.9 in the early 1970s for an actual price.

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AllieJIsHere@reddit

I'm 1996 it once got down to .75¢ in Tucson, AZ

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wanderingdev@reddit

$.99 it would have been around 1990 as if have just gotten my license.

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iceroadtrucker2010@reddit

1972 / 25 cents per gallon

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Ipickthingup@reddit

I think it was $1.10 in the Bay Area 96

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toothpastedan@reddit

.91. Think it was 1998 in upstate NY.

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JeffFerguson@reddit

This recalls my high school job to my mind. I worked in a Shell station mini-mart. Gas was 95 cents or so in 1984-1985.

I remember that the station put up gas prices on large roadside signs with clear plastic cards, with two slots, one for each digit. I remember that we were getting worried that gas would get to one dollar and we wouldn't have the third slot on the sign to put the leading "1" digit.

This was also in the time when pre-paid pumps were emerging and people would come in and pay with cash, worried about not knowing how much the gas would be until they pumped the gas. I advised them to leave a $20 bill with me and that I would give them change when they came back after pumping. This, in turn, reminded me that gas used to be less than $20 for a fill-up.

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Ok-Somewhere-766@reddit

A hose and gas can.

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Correct-Condition-99@reddit

Below a dollar back in the late 80's

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GalegoBaiano@reddit

The Clinton Years had a unique time for oil prices being very stable and very low. In 2001, before 9/11, gas was just over a dollar per gallon. It dipped again in January 2002, and has never been below a dollar again by me

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silverfoxbuttslut@reddit

As a kid, mom would give me 35 cents to walk up to the gas station and fill the gallon can for the lawn mower

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ONROSREPUS@reddit

High .70's for me. My dad said, when I was younger, have fun in the car now because it will only get more expensive. I did and it has. Still not horrible in my area but it definitely affects how and where I drive.

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Swarmhulk@reddit

.01 cent. I had Lowe's rewards. I took a pic and posted it to friends I was so impressed

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freakrocker@reddit

$.75 when I started driving. Mid 80’s

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SeparateCzechs@reddit

$.69 @gallon in 1987 in New Jersey.

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whippy_grep@reddit

$0.759 /gal in December of ‘89 at a newly opened Circle K on Western Blvd in Raleigh, NC.

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rawesome99@reddit

It was under 20 cents back in the 30s

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aran_maybe@reddit

I remember those days well, being born in the 70s and all.

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rawesome99@reddit

You must be fun at parties

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shay2791@reddit

$.86 I do believe. I was in high school back then. I miss those days.

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Practical_Wind_1917@reddit

I remember .87 cents when leaving college and filling up my car in a small town in lower part of Michigan. That was 1998

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RemlikDahc@reddit

It was .93 in 93! Washington State style! We had a Rock radio station...92.9 KZZU, the Zoo. In 1993, they had a promotion for 93 cent gas for 93 hours. Too bad the world isn't as cool as it was back then!

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DeadManAle@reddit

$.89 when I first got me license.

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Extra_Housing_2721@reddit

.59 in the late 1970s

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ToxicAdamm@reddit

I have the distinct memory of filling up for 67 cents in the late 90's, at a Toledo gas station. I remember looking at the sign and laughing at how ridiculously cheap it was and that it was never going to last.

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Puckhead1973@reddit

Cheapest I've ever gotten was $.87 in St. Louis in the late 90's. I had an 86 Honda and could get back and forth to work for a week on $4 in gas.

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Environmental-Gap380@reddit

When I first got my license, mom would give me $20 to fill her tank. I’d fill it up with premium at around $.86. I kept the change. My folks could afford to give mea big allowance, but they did not. Running errands was a way to get some easy money for a movie or two.

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DickRichman@reddit

Used to put a dollar of gas in my motorcycle every couple weeks as a kid in the early 80s with quarters from can collecting.

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atticus_pund77@reddit

Big assumption I’m genx there sonny. Look it up.

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sbvtguy34567@reddit

I paid like .89 in the late 90s while I'm Oklahoma for work

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rriflemann@reddit

1971, union premium, $0.29.9

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sbvtguy34567@reddit

You were driving in 71? This is genx not Boomer

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sirtagsalot@reddit

The last time I saw it under $1 was 1998 I think. Randomly it was $.97. I was in GA which typically would had have some of the cheapest gas in the country back then. Something about a direct pipeline from TX or Louisiana. The cheapest I ever paid was $.86 in the late 80s.

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trUth_b0mbs@reddit

Canadian here. When I first started driving in the early 90s, it was 29.9/L. I also clearly remember when gas prices were rising and I was FURIOUS when it went up to 49.9/L and shouted if it goes up to 50.0/L I'm not driving anymore!!!

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PurplePenguinCat@reddit

American here who spent every summer in Canada. I remember when your gas was 29.9. When I was young, I didn't understand our gallons vs your liters, so I was like "mom, look at how cheap that gas is!" 😆

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RetroactiveRecursion@reddit

I paid $0.97 or $0.98 in West Virginia in 1994. I was on my way to California so that was the last time I ever saw it under $1.00.

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sane-asylum@reddit

I remember my Dad quit drinking because a six pack broke $2.00 at the supermarket

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sane-asylum@reddit

When there were the early gas shortages I remember .88 at the Hess up the street but I don’t remember before that.

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heldaway@reddit

I was paying .97 in Las Vegas 1994

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fiftyfivepercentoff@reddit

23¢ a gallon during the gas wars.

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digdugnate@reddit

it was around $.95 a gallon it seemed like in the late 90s.

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Neat-Brother-6570@reddit

My first real job was at a gas station 35 cents a litre was the price it danced around

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PissedCaucasian@reddit

.67 in the mid 90s.

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PhucYoCouch@reddit

$.70 in ‘97 when I was in college.

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Greedy_Blueberry420@reddit

5 bucks for just over a quarter tank in the late 80s in my Cavalier

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chlorculo@reddit

I distinctly remember putting gas into my car for my pizza delivery job circa 1990 and it was .91 a gallon.

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HaloTightens@reddit

$.69 a gallon in 1997, somewhere in rural Alabama or Florida. But gas under $1.00 was nothing strange once upon a time. Today’s teenagers don’t get to go cruising or backroading anymore.

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Karamist623@reddit

I was a kid at the time and I remember standing around with my parents and neighbors talking about the gas shortage. One of the neighbors said that they were just jacking the prices UP to $1.00 a gallon and then it would go back to normal.

I wish for those days of $1.00 gas.

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SuchDogeHodler@reddit

First time I filled my gas tank.

103 regular 1994

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SnooRadishes1376@reddit

67 cents per gallon in the Spring of 1999 in Alpharetta, GA, where we lived at the time

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peeshofwork@reddit

I used to fill up my 97 Nissan Sentra for 87 cents a gallon (regular). Was glorious.

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Acceptable_Reality10@reddit

It was .97 - .98 a gallon when I started driving and there was one station in town that was brand new and they had a grand opening and was selling gas for .89 a gallon and a fill up also got a free hotdog for the first week it was open.

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NHBikerHiker@reddit

$0.86 spring 1990 as I recall. Senior year, eastern Montana.

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FairBaker315@reddit

$.88 a gallon in the early 90's.

I'm sure it was cheaper earler in my life, born 1971, but this is the cheapest I can actively remember paying.

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Willing_Freedom_1067@reddit

1.19/gallon in Maryland, but this was in 2020 in the early days of the Covid pandemic because of stay-at-home mandates and there was no demand for it. I was a mandated worker and had to travel.

I also didn’t learn how to drive until 2018, at the ripe age of 46.

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Comeoneileen1971@reddit

It was like .97 when I started driving.

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sangvert@reddit

It was 25 cents when I was a kid in NJ

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Particular_Ad6680@reddit

.97 in 1992 SW Florida.

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Katjhud@reddit

Damn I thought you found something good for all of us!

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Unclerojelio@reddit

I dunno, how much was gas in Texas in 1979?

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GirlULove2Love@reddit

63c in 78 & then jumped to 86c in 79 in Texas specifically.

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GirlULove2Love@reddit

Nov 1986 gas in Kansas was just 55c & as long as I had a job & paid for the car & gas, my parents paid for insurance.

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djunderh2o@reddit

Got my license in 1993, gas was .99¢ in north east Philadelphia.

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kurtsdead6794@reddit

I can remember it being .79

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HighBiased@reddit

I remember seeing gas priced at my local for 69¢ and I chuckled as I drove by on the way to high school

This was probably mid/late '80s in Northern California.

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_WillCAD_@reddit

I got my license in 1986, and it was under $1 for a couple of years. I think it was in the $0.70 range in '86.

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Expensive-Vanilla-16@reddit

I vaguely remember it in the 70s cents range. Might have been cheaper during gas wars. " new gas station would open and big competition on who had cheaper gas "

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funkyg73@reddit

When I started driving in the UK in 1995 I was paying around £0.60 per litre. It’s currently around £1.55 per litre.

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vankirk@reddit

Cheapest I remember was in high school 1994 it was .89 a gallon. I could get a half tank in my Nissan with 5 bucks

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Darz167@reddit

75.9 cents per gallon. Oh the good old days!

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Embarrassed-Bench392@reddit

.80 a gallon. I filled the 25 gallon tank in my Torino with a $20 when I was riding on E.

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Janet296@reddit

In my adult life as an American, there was one day in the 90's where gas one .69 cents a gallon.

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paymerich@reddit

NICE!

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golfingsince83@reddit

In college back in 1999 I remember gas being less than a dollar

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cookiesandpunch@reddit

I flew one-way to Atlanta in 1999 to buy a Land Rover Defender. I filled it up near the dealership for 69¢ a gallon.

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ugly_tst@reddit

Cheapest I saw was .19. a liter (Canadian)in the early 80s .Cheapest I paid was .22 a liter for propane in 96-97and gas was around .60 a liter

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Zealousideal_Draw_94@reddit

I believe gas prices when I was 16 were around $.90 p/g. It dropped at some point after It was normal for it to be $1.25, to something like $.78. IDR when/why but it didn’t last for long.

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Equivalent_Yogurt_58@reddit

.85 a gallon. Throw 20 in my ol 77 Grand Prix and fill er up.

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Ymisoqt420@reddit

50 cents a gallon in the 90s

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StoneybrookEast@reddit

$0.79 at QT in Alpharetta, GA back in 1997-1998

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PDM_1969@reddit

I remember when I worked at my local mall right after high school in 88 paying 86 cents a gallon

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Silly_Sherbet5543@reddit

98 cents in mid 90’s

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ReasonableBack8472@reddit

19.9cents/ltr (AUS) early/mid 90's.

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benzduck@reddit

1962 I helped my dad change the price sign for his Richfield station. I remember 34.9 for ethyl.

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docfallout22@reddit

Leas than a $1 in the late 80’s in CA.

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KC5SDY@reddit

$0.50 a gallon or there abouts.

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Not_a_fan_of_me@reddit

Gas war in my little town: $.37, 1989

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birdpix@reddit

80 cents, in the 80s

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coffeethulhu42@reddit

I remember paying .87 a gallon when I was in college. Used to be able to "throw $5 in it" and be good for a week.

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SilverStL@reddit

21-22 cents, early 70’s. Although I really think I remember it being around 18 cents in late 60’s.

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Remote-Koala1215@reddit

48 cents, 1978

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JurisUrsus@reddit

I remember 89¢ gas back in the early 90's.

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praetorian1979@reddit

I remember .56 in central Texas in the mid 90's.

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USSSLostTexter@reddit

$0.63 in IL 1987/88 or so. only lasted at that price a few days, but stayed under $1 for the whole summer.

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Dapper_Size_5921@reddit

I remember it being $0.77 in the mid/late 80s in relatively rural Middle TN. I remember reacting to it because it was somewhat cheaper than gas had been recently.
I'm sure I saw it cheaper years before that, but I really never paid attention.

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wakattawakaranai@reddit

First time I road tripped to DragonCon (Atlanta, 14 hours). We stopped for the night in Chattanooga and gassed up in the morning just over the Georgia border at 88 cents/gal. And this was 2000, not 1984. It really was not that long ago (as we old folks measure it) that we had 1.50 gas and freaked out when it was over 2. Now we save the freaking for $4 and up.

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dreaminginteal@reddit

I remember an SNL skit where Dan Aykroyd was playing Jimmy Carter, and was touting his new one-gallon gas rationing card. He held up a dollar bill, and it was funny because everyone knew that was an absurdly-high cost for just one gallon...

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Kriszillla@reddit

Mid-80's, Oklahoma City. I was 12-ish and had a moped. Yes, yes... contain your awe! I remember the gas at one fill-up being 83 cents a gallon.

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Xibby@reddit

In my high school driving years (96-98), $0.89 to $0.99 a gallon.

One time, at the station closest to home, I realized I forgot my check book after pumping a full tank of gas and didn’t have cash. No ATM. Debit cards didn’t exist. Quarter for the pay phone and Mom came to pay. 😂

And just realized Reddit is recommending GenX, Millennials, and Xennials… so hey sorry I’m kinda out of my micro-generation. Situation normal for 80s kids.

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Ampersandbox@reddit

It was 85 and 9/10 cents a gallon when I started driving.

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pythongee@reddit

Where?

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Ampersandbox@reddit

ah, 1984 southern California - and I'm seeing other people posting 60 cents from socal in 1986, so now I'm doubting that this was the lowest I paid, just the first time the price made an indelible memory...

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pythongee@reddit

I've been lucid since about '70ish, which means I've been lucid since I was 5. Gas was never 9 to 10 cents a gallon. I have vivid memories of it hitting $1 in the early 70's.

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Ampersandbox@reddit

Please re-read, as I wrote: 85 (and 9/10) cents

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pythongee@reddit

I get what you're saying. Just so you know, NOBO9DY talks about the stupid 9/10's. That really wasn't necessary.

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Responsible-Baby-551@reddit

I remember .49/9 gas in the 70s

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pinotJD@reddit

In 1996 in Waco Texas I filled my Saturn with $3.25. In quarters.

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Thin-Telephone2240@reddit

$0.79 for unleaded in Deming, New Mexico in early 1999. I'd gone out of the country on a job in November 1998 when it was over a $1.30 in Colorado Springs. There'd been some big short term dip in oil prices and I was amazed when I came back to the USA. Then driving thru southern New Mexico I saw that price and couldn't believe it. I actually drove around the town a bit to find higher octane, suddenly Premium Gas looked pretty good!

Much older story, I was a kid in the back of my mother's station wagon. She'd pull into a service station and the service station attendant would ask what she'd like. She'd routinely buy $2 worth and have him check the oil.

That "2" always sounded small to me. I wondered why not fill up the tank?

But that's just it, she was topping off the tank. Gas was $0.20 to $0.30 a gallon then. Mom's $2 both topped off the tank and paid for a half quart of motor oil by a service station attendant. Sometimes, she got change back.

That was 1964 or '5 I think.

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mlachick@reddit

In 1998 or so, gas was 87 cents at a shitty gas station in Kensett, Arkansas. We would drive our Honda Accord there to fill up. Then the car started dying every time we turned left. When we moved and no longer had access to that cheap ass gas, the car ran noticeably better.

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kirradoodle@reddit

When I was a little kid back in the 1960s, I remember signs for $0.25 gas. Mom explained to me what a "gas war" was - competing stations lowering their prices drastically to get customers. It apparently got a little nuts.

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Beegkitty@reddit

I was driving in LA 1989. I was paying 99¢ a gallon as well. I don’t remember it being lower. But that is when I started driving myself so it makes sense. I miss $8 fill ups.

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AlmiranteCrujido@reddit

I never saw gas under $1 somewhere I lived when I started driving, but when I drove my car across country back to college in Dec 1997, the lowest I ever paid was $0.82/gallon in Oklahoma.

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KarmaDreams@reddit

.79cents in Los Angeles, in the 80s. I was just telling my son about how $3 could get you around town for almost a week🤣

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gingerthetrailpup@reddit (OP)

Yup. I had to scrounge around for that $3-$4 😂

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65-535@reddit

.42 cents Kansas City, 1986.

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raqnroll@reddit

.89-.99

I had a geo metro and could fill the 12 gal tank for $12

Mid 90's

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BrogerBramjet@reddit

Wow. Doubling the value of the car!

I kid with love. Those things had crappy carburetors back then. I wonder what the MPG would be with a good modern one.

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raqnroll@reddit

I mean, I was getting 42-46 mpg. Better gas mileage than my hybrid years later.

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PolPotDomeScandal@reddit

I remember $.75 during a local gas war in the 80s.

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Artichokeydokey8@reddit

It was between $0.69-0.89 in 1996 when I first started driving.

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bluejammiespinksocks@reddit

I’m in Canada. The cheapest I paid was $0.33 per litre in 2001 (a couple new gas stations popped up In my town and there was a huge gas war going on). Currently, I’m paying about $1.65 a litre.

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mrv_wants_xtra_cheez@reddit

.10 per gallon - but ONLY the first 10 gallons. Was when it JUST slipped over a buck for “regular” in ‘89 or ‘90 in Stanislaus County Ca.

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Melzie0123@reddit

$0.99 when I first got my license in 1992 in So Cal & I thought that was a lot of money!

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MacSteele13@reddit

.48 in Georgia somewhere back in 86. I remember it was cool to fill up my Toyota, give the guy $5, and get change.

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Certain_Chance_4797@reddit

I paid $6.37 today in CA. When I bought my first car, gas was $0.88. That was in FL.

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EddieRedondo@reddit

In the late 90s in Austin TX I once paid 78.9 cents per gallon

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captainbeautylover63@reddit

$.58 in 1986, right after I bought a 1974 Pontiac Grand Prix. Good timing!

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Fantastic_Honeydew23@reddit

2020, I was a travel nurse. I paid $1.05 for a gallon. Filled up my car with $11

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aaron_grice@reddit

$0.57.9, summer of ‘86, filling up my Bug at the last station in town still selling leaded Regular.

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JoeNorman81@reddit

49 cents in 1974. Before that I remember it being as low as 29 cents.

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mtrxgltchs@reddit

When I started driving in the 90s, I remember it being around .89 a gallon where I lived.

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donofrioms@reddit

$.56 in 1986, just got my license and filled up moms Chevy Chevette!

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jacqleen0430@reddit

I remember my dad being FURIOUS that it was $.27 in the early 70s. When I started driving in 1985ish, it was about $.79 during the gas wars. There were other areas of the country that were dropping it to crazy low prices, like $.20, just to get customers to buy their gas but $.79 was the cheapest I remember.

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revdon@reddit

Gas station wars before 1973 when it was 4 or 5gal.per $1. So $0.27 down to .25 or .20 per gallon for on sale gasoline.

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jacqleen0430@reddit

I just remember the cussing that my dad would mutter under his breath, that's what makes me laugh now. I think these prices would have killed him if congestive heart failure didn't take him in 2000.

But, you're right. There were wars in the earlier 70s, too. I was pretty young, only 5 or 6, but remember the lines on the news my parents watched.

One year in the 80s, can't remember exactly when but it had to be pretty early in the decade, there were cars fighting to get over the bridges into Canada for cheaper gas. The lines were so long, they'd run out of gas before making it to the border!

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ronwabo@reddit

I was an assistant manager of a 7-eleven in the mid to late 90's in Colorado, I remember one morning changing the unleaded gas price to 81cents.

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FirefighterKindly480@reddit

I remember 79 cents a gallon in Alpharetta around 2003. I lived in Marietta at the time and made the 30 or so minute trip to Alpharetta for an interview that didn’t work out. Luckily, I needed gas and I definitely filled up since gas was at least 30 cents per gallon more in Marietta.

Thinking back to my elementary school years (mid to late 80’s), I vividly remember putting $5 in my Mom’s car and that would last the whole week. Those were the days.

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fredreeder@reddit

I remember during the gas crisis in, eh, 1980(?) I worked at a carwash that sold gas for around $1.29/gal. The gas station across the street went bankrupt and had to liquidate their inventory for the tax value only, which was about $0.15/gal. I waited in the line and got my entire tank of gas for like $2.50.

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colojason@reddit

I lived in Houston in 98. The local mom and pop it was usually 49 cents a gallon.

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CrazyBitchCatLady@reddit

I used to have a Honda Spree. It cost $0.89 to fill up.

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FormFar9234@reddit

The cheapest I remember paying was $0.75 a gallon in the mid 90s Western Kentucky.

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Bosswashington@reddit

I had a ‘78 Lincoln Mark V. It had a 460 in it. Like 195 horsepower for a car that weighs as much as a Kamatsu D475A bulldozer. I ran it out of gas, and literally coasted downhill to a gas station in my town. I paid with change in my ash tray. Like $4.56. 6 gallons. Granted, that car was like 10 miles/gallon, but it was plenty until pay day. The early 90’s were awesome.

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BrilliantWeb@reddit

Mid 90s in Atlanta, 90¢ gallon

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Waste-Account7048@reddit

It was 96 cents in 2020, right after OPEC flooded the markets, and then COVID hit.

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Secret-Function-2972@reddit

Swear I remember seeing $0.69 per gallon as a kid when on vacation with my family. Think it was in California, but can’t recall for certain.

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idk012@reddit

Less than a dollar in NJ and someone pumped it for you while I sat in the rear facing back of my parents' station wagon.

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YesterdayContent854@reddit

I had a 1978 Lincoln Continental. I remember filling it up for $28 from a ¼ tank. Gas was $.97. that car had a huge tank and just floated down the highway. It was 1990. Very shortly before the first Gulf war. I remember everyone saying they would refuse to buy gas if it ever got over $1 a gallon. Oh if they only knew them... On a side note. McDonald's cheeseburgers were $.65 each. Hamburgers were $.55. We would buy a dozen almost every morning before school.

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montbkr@reddit

You could go to Krystal’s (Southern version of White Castle) and get three burgers and a small Coke for $2 AND get back some change.

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yall_cray@reddit

Omg that brings me back to being 17 in 1997, going to Krystal Burger on Bourbon street after underage partying in the quarter all night.
And gas was .89/ gallon.

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CapitalRadioOne@reddit

.64 in 1986

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Substantial_Cow7628@reddit

The cheapest I ever paid for gas (without inflation adjustment) was $1.03 in NH in 1988.

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cirkis@reddit

.99 was the lowest I remember

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Quirky_Might_8780@reddit

I bought a new 1989 Honda Civic and gas was 89c/gallon in Washington state. Car had around a 9-10 gallon tank so I could fill up for $10.

The other day I was filling the tank on my SUV and came real close to $100.

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b-lincoln@reddit

I bought a new Eclipse 1998 that was premium only. It was .99 when I filled up.

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scholly73@reddit

When you drive from Pennsylvania to Mississippi there’s a little section of Georgia you hit. Rising Fawn is the exit. Once we got gas there for 69 cents. It was probable around 1997-2001. It was ridiculously cheap everywhere we stopped tho. Man I miss that haha

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LVMom@reddit

It was $.99/gallon in MS/AL in the ‘90s

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Gudakesa@reddit

$0.63 in 1987, Ashtabula Ohio.

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Affectionate_Yam4368@reddit

I recall my Dad being outraged when gas hit $1 here. I think that was in 1992?

When I was at college in Iowa in the late 90s gas was routinely under $1/gallon.

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Iamno1ofconsequence@reddit

I think it was 1994, but I remember one time it was .88¢ per gallon. Filled my tank for less than $10. I miss being able to do that.

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KSLONGRIDER1@reddit

19 cents back in the 60s.

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UrbanFuturistic@reddit

$0.89/gallon Chicago Heights, Ill 1998.

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KingRichard4342@reddit

Paid $. 27 back ín '73

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minicpst@reddit

$0.67 in 1998 in Raleigh, NC.

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iambarrelrider@reddit

I remember in the 90’s gas was 0.92 in Philly.

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mumtoant@reddit

I filled up for $0.89/gal in Atlanta in 1996.

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Tripl3Dee@reddit

Late 90s ('97?) I remember it being under $1 and tanking up for $10. I drove an old Bug at the time.

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Ghee-Buttersnaps-@reddit

I remember it being about a dollar in the early 90s in Southern California. It was probably cheaper in the 80s but I wasn’t driving much then so I can’t remember gas prices

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Anonymo123@reddit

I recall a little under a dollar per gallon before I graduated in 92... might have been 91.

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yallelike2eat@reddit

Gas was so cheap in the 80s, I had a Nissan hardbody pick up that got about 25mpg. It was not a major expense. When I moved to Houston in 98 it was still under a dollar for awhile. I bought a 93 Nissan 300zx and premium was $1.25 .

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jkki1999@reddit

99c in the 80’s. I had a car that took leaded gas.

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IRingTwyce@reddit

I specifically remember paying 98¢ for premium in 1991. So regular unleaded would have been 88¢. That would also have made gas in the 0.70s range a couple of years earlier when I started driving.

This was in Cheyenne, WY.

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Andurilmage@reddit

.91c in 1993

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KayBear2@reddit

85 cents/gallon in the late 80’s

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GomerSnerd@reddit

19.9 in 67

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Why_so_glum_chum@reddit

And I bet you got the oil checked, tires checked and windshield cleaned too ! Had that job once.

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Patient-01@reddit

.25 but I didn’t pay. Mom payied in 70’s

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Emotional_Mess261@reddit

I paid around 80-90 cents in the mid to late 80s

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beeskneessidecar@reddit

I had a little beetle bug in the 1980s. At one point I remember when gas price is dropped I paid $.57 a gallon. I think it was unleaded?

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eugenesnewdream@reddit

I remember seeing $0.97 in Texas in 1998.

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Beneficial_Ship_7988@reddit

.88 a gallon, 1992.

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Lopsided_Tomatillo27@reddit

91¢

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OldSkooler1212@reddit

About $0.75 a gallon in 86 for leaded gasoline.

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basec0m@reddit

Yeah, I remember .77 cents in 1986

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JaydeRaven@reddit

.89 in Buford, GA, 1990

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qwerty8675309Z@reddit

I remember 50 some cents per gallon. And I remember being shocked at $1/gallon in the late 80s during my final years of college. It stayed tolerable until a sudden leap to $2.89 in the early 2000s…and it never went back down.

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jquest303@reddit

$.96 cents in the early 90’s on my way driving across the country moving from New England to California.

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montbkr@reddit

75 cents a gallon in 1984

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Admin--_--@reddit

I paid 99c a gallon back when I worked for Pizza hut back in 1990 or so.

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MeekOne70@reddit

When I began driving in 1986 it was $.76/gal. Good thing too because my truck got 8 mpg

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Sufficient-Ad1396@reddit

Grew up in Seattle. When I got my driver's license, in 1969, the price was $0.29/gallon. Now it's around $5.40/gallon.

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Cake_Donut1301@reddit

I remember when the first Gulf War made it cost over a dollar. People lost their shit. That year was the run up from 75-85-95 cents.

There’s a shot in Die Hard of 74 cents a gallon from about that time, which I remember.

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oneeyedalienalright@reddit

I remember $0.89 in Central Texas mid-90s. Started driving in ‘92. I also remember anything over $1 would stress my parents out.

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MyDadBod_2021@reddit

$0.79 /gal

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uh_huh_yep_okay@reddit

Late 80s, was filling my car with .86 per gallon premium. I lost my mind and started filling with regular first time I saw premium hit 1.00

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beargirlreads@reddit

I remember paying .69 a gallon in college around 1988. It was dirt cheap even then and I had to drive past a few other gas stations to get there. I used to put in $2 or $3 at a time when my money was low.

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95in3rd@reddit

9 cents a gallon 1963 gas war in Sunnymead California.

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RdtRanger6969@reddit

NYC area, 2000, 0.99/gal!

People were doing weekends in London because airfare was so cheap.

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Skid-Vicious@reddit

I remember in HS during the 80’s paying in the $.60’s/gal, $5.00 would keep my Chevy LUV going all week.

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LissyVee@reddit

When I started driving in 1984, petrol was 29c (Australian) per litre. I think that's about 75c US per gallon.

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whipprsnappr@reddit

$0.75 in El Cajon, CA in the late 80s. I had a 5.0 Mustang LX and would drive from La Mesa/Rolando area just to fill up for cheap. Looking back at the way I drove and the mileage my 5.0 got, I probably wasn’t saving money.

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whitingvo@reddit

I think $.99. I remember being in HS, working at the Piggly Wiggly making minimum wage which was around $4/hr. I could fill my car up and still have plenty of money for other things during the week.

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w1lnx@reddit

I remember it being 79c/gal in the Seattle area back in the early to mid ‘80s.

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Snacks75@reddit

Late 80s, early 90s. Reagan and Bush got the Saudis to ramp up oil production resulting in a glut of supply and a drop in oil prices. It's a long story but the short of it was that it was catastrophic to the cash situation of the Soviet Union. Party officials faces the threat of not being able to trade for grain to feed Russian people not to mention the other Republics in the Union. Rather than starve the population, the USSR simply folded. .89/gallon in California. Insane...

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queendweeb@reddit

it was 97 cents a gallon in 1999 when I was in college in Wisconsin.

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seanx50@reddit

86, prices dropped to about 60¢ a gallon

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SouthernOshawaMan@reddit

Canada . 60 cents a litre is the cheapest I think I can remember.

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wieldymouse@reddit

85¢ per gallon

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AdAccomplished6511@reddit

99 c a gallon in maybe 94, worked at k mart making 4.25 an hour after 3 months they gave me a raise and i was balling making 4.30 an hour

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hiro111@reddit

$0.93/gallon, in about 1991.

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slylabninja@reddit

Same here

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baldmisery17@reddit

35 cents but I was too young to drive.

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pythongee@reddit

When I started driving my '65 Fairlane in 1983 it was $.58 a gallon in northern California.

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Disastrous-Food-9223@reddit

65, same as a pack of cigarettes

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freshdrippin@reddit

I remember 91 cents in the early 90s

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jwhyem@reddit

In Virginia in the mid 90s 85 cents a gallon was common

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Mr_Horrible@reddit

I think about 80 cents? Around 1987

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grokbones@reddit

79 cents in 89s

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johnnyg08@reddit

I've paid under $1.

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Jagsfan2025@reddit

Around .89 per gallon back in the late 80s

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BiouxBerry@reddit

79 cents in the 80s. I had a 76 Firebird that I drove back and forth from college.

That car couldn't get 15 mpg driving off a cliff so I was very thankful!

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lovebeinganasshole@reddit

I remember my parents driving from station to station in the 1970s for cheaper than 53 cents.

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BearFLSTS@reddit

Walked into the station and handed over a $5 and had to go back for my change! Loved riding a motorcycle back in the early 90’s. As a kid in the 70’s gas was about $0.30 a gallon.

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FeDude55@reddit

I remember paying $0.89/gallon. It was $0.99/gallon one time my last year of college.

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CurlyCupcake1231@reddit

I remember it being this low right after 9/11

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2_krazykats@reddit

During covid, gas in my area was $1...didn't last long but boy that brought back a lot of memories

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trivialempire@reddit

49 cents a gallon. Warrensburg MO. Either 1987 or 88.

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SamWhittemore75@reddit

😮

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shuanm@reddit

When I started driving, in 1989, it was 77 cents/gallon. I couldn't afford 20 gallons then either.

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gingerthetrailpup@reddit (OP)

I remember scrounging around for $3-$4 for gas $$

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shuanm@reddit

I had a nobody rides for free policy. $2 gets you in. $5 gets shotgun.

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Liquado@reddit

.34 a litre when I started in 90. Five bucks could get you all over the city!

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SamWhittemore75@reddit

.59 cents U.S. in 1985.

I remember because I ran out of gas one night and had to walk 5 miles with a one gallon can to buy gasoline. When I arrived at the station, I reached for my wallet only to discover that I had left it back in my glove box. I had to scrounge change from folks at the pumps to buy one gallon. The station was closing in a few mins and I got lucky and found a dime in the coin return of a payphone after a nice old couple gave me 50 cents.

I had a penny in change and a long walk back.

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roopjm81@reddit

Summer after my senior year was $0.69 in SC.

With rewards I've paid just tax before

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Flitzer-Camaro@reddit

I want to say .87 cents per gallon in ‘92.

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Sometimes_I_Do_That@reddit

Damn,.. got me beat. I had .88 cents from a station in Jersey in the 90s. I had the receipt on my fridge for the longest time until it got too faded to read.

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Flitzer-Camaro@reddit

Yeah, southern Jersey was the place.

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goldinox@reddit

I remember 75 cents in high school.

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theatre_mom_FL@reddit

Same!

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Rays_LiquorSauce@reddit

.89 at Racetrack in Virginia circa 97. Dollar smokes too

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old_namewasnt_best@reddit

Camel ran a two for one deal for the longest time at $1.50. Man, 75 cents for a pack of smokes.... I was 16 and not supposed to be buying them either.

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KyotiKill@reddit

71¢ around 1997... I remember $10 would fill up my lil Mustang.

Miss those days 😔

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gingerthetrailpup@reddit (OP)

Yup. I just paid $100 to fill my Jeep today in CA 😭

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funktopus@reddit

Yeah. I remember those days. Fill up the tank and drive around with my buddies hitting up every record store we could find.

Good times.

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KyotiKill@reddit

Indeed! Kept those roads hot back then

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platypusandpibble@reddit

Around .60 in 1986.

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4rt4tt4ck@reddit

Lol. Expecting old people to remember specifics form 35+ years ago.

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gingerthetrailpup@reddit (OP)

Oh … I remember … $0.98 … in CA 1989 .., because I had to pay for my gas and my parents then would take the car I was driving and return it empty. I could not say anything because they provided the car. I revolted and I went back to riding my bike everywhere. 😂

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Actual_Friendship802@reddit

.60 cents.

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phunkygroovin@reddit

I remember getting gas in the 90s when I was in high school for .69. It wasn't until college in the late 90s/early 2000s that I started paying over a dollar plus. I don't know why, but for some reason my state is always the cheapest for gas in the country compared to most other states. I remember when I started traveling across the country by myself as a teenager and being shocked by gas prices elsewhere.

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Excusemytootie@reddit

I remember paying .80 per gallon.

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BubbhaJebus@reddit

I remember 65¢ a gallon in the midst of the oil glut years, maybe 1986. And this was in California.

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Legitimate_Ocelot491@reddit

Yep, my memory as well, gassing up my sister's car that summer, Darryl Hall's "Dreamtime" on the radio.

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Turbulent-Ad5121@reddit

The cheapest I remember as an adult was 48 cents / gallon early 1994 in Georgia. I had to go to a fraternity regional thing in Jan of 1994 and remember it exactly. I also had a Geo Metro that got something like 45mpg.

Less than $6 to fill up and got close to 300 miles on a tank- a college kid’s DREAM. (Although I was making $2.13/hour waiting tables so… maybe not so great.)

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Roosevelt2000@reddit

I also had a Geo Metro. I remember gas in Des Moines was hovering around $1.00/gallon when I graduated from high school in 1995. We could run for a week on $10!

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ZipperJJ@reddit

88 cents in college. Some time between 98 and 2001.

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PaulyRocket68@reddit

$0.69 at Racetrac in Lawrenceville, GA, 1998. I haven’t seen it that cheap since.

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Spare-Good-5372@reddit

I remember on my way to school -- probably 1985 or 86 -- seeing the sign at the gas station near our house with 69¢ for diesel, and then 79¢/89¢/99¢ for the three grades of gas, and I thought that was neat and it stuck with me.

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Proper_Rent_189@reddit

Mn 82.5 before bush jr invaded Iraq

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Expert_Tomorrow_3915@reddit

.32 cents a gallon. 1982 when I started driving. Full tank was about $5. 98

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Agile-Giraffe8426@reddit

$.78 a gallon in Michigan in 1995

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KISSALIVE1975@reddit

Southern California 95¢ 1983

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MW240z@reddit

$.69 in 1989 in San Jose, CA at an Arco

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TheRedGiant77@reddit

When I got my first car in 1997, gas was 94¢ a gallon. I could get a half tank for $5.

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bippy404@reddit

I remember $.79 in the late 90’s.

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DJErikD@reddit

63¢/gal, San Diego, 1986.

By 1990 we were in the $ range. There was a brief time when a gallon of gas and a pack of smokes were each $1.

Does anyone else remember in the 70s when the gas pumps didn't have the ability to go over $1/gal so they set the pumps to liters?

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svzurich@reddit

86 cents. Drove to Cherokee County from Cobb just to save a few pennies. Wasn't far.

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JenNtonic@reddit

I just remember it was about the same price as it was the year. If it was 1988 it was $.88 it was 1991, it was $.91.

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No_Parking_4195@reddit

Maybe $.50 a gallon in Louisiana during the mid 80s.

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RTVGP@reddit

Regularly filled up for 99 cents at a janky old station near my crappy apartment in Texas in the mid- late-90s. I think the lowest I saw was 84 cents-unleaded.

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highknees69@reddit

Exxon in so cal was $0.97 when I started driving.

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TripMaster478@reddit

I definitely remember under 60 cents (per litre). Maybe even under 40. In Alberta we've generally always had the lowest prices across Canada.

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IDunnoNuthinMr@reddit

88 pennies in Phoenix 1988. Leaded, regular, was 79.

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FalseEvidence8701@reddit

78 cents per gallon of diesel in 1997. Suburbs of Denver Colorado somewhere.

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econkle@reddit

.98

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Practical-Bar8291@reddit

68 cents in 86

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bejean@reddit

$0.69 the day I got my license in Georgia in 1998.

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RangerRick4971@reddit

Yep, and my town was going through gas pricing wars at that time so we were getting it for $0.66!

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moon_child_78@reddit

.95 in Washington state 1998

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Ssgt_Winstead@reddit

1989 New Bern, NC for .68

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rick43402@reddit

I paid $ 0.49.9 during a gas war in 1970

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Serious-Mongoose-387@reddit

85 cents when i got my license

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Complex-Republic-443@reddit

.60 in 1988 or so. It was a weird dip in the price of oil, and I filled my Pontiac Sunbird for $3!

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freerangetacos@reddit

It only held 5 gallons?

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Complex-Republic-443@reddit

It wasn't empty but did have a small tank. Maybe 12 gallons?

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Complex-Republic-443@reddit

Also a raging POS! 🤣

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Dismal_Estate9829@reddit

.96 Boston circa 91.

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Laszlo_Panaflex_80@reddit

One winter in the early or mid 90s, my dad and I got it for 77 cents.

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Disassociated_Assoc@reddit

I remember mom filling up the car for less than 40 cents per gallon in the early 70’s. At least until the oil crisis hit and they shot up to a mind blowing 50+ cents per gallon.

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Careless-Gazelle-247@reddit

I remember people freaking out because gas in MO was 94 cents per gallon. I didn't care as I drove a diesel Rabbit, and diesel was only 89 cents per gallon.

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cuzwhat@reddit

Ah yes, the days before T.W.A.T., when diesel was more efficient and cheaper.

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OkConsideration8964@reddit

$0.89 in the mid 80s in NJ and VA

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denvergardener@reddit

$.99/gal when I was in college. And I swear sometimes it would go as low as $.79/gal.

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suswecawin@reddit

$0.98/gallon - Detroit suburbs in 1998

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VintageFashion4Ever@reddit

1995 outside of Atlanta on a road trip. It was 80 cents a gallon!

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lasims79@reddit

$.79 on Fridays

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luecack@reddit

.99 a gallon back when I got my license

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cuzwhat@reddit

As a single guy in his mid twenties daily driving a hot rodded ‘84 Suburban getting 8 mpg, I absolutely did not mind filling the 40 gallon gas tank for less than $40 in the late 90s.

As a DINK in his late 40s getting a hot rodded ‘27 T Bucket out of the garage occasionally to burn thru a 15 gallon tank at 8 mpg, I still don’t mind the $45.

I guess it’s all a matter of perspective.

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forkmerunning@reddit

I know I had to sell my 1970 Pontiac gran prix because that 400 cubic inch v8 was bleeding me dry. Gas hit a buck a gallon and I was reduced to mountain biking back and forth to work lol

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BossKatana@reddit

Sweet car.

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Majik_Sheff@reddit

Des Moines IA 1997

I paid $0.89/gallon

My wife works the fuel discounts hard at the grocery store and managed to get it down to 2¢/gal last summer.

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ZaphodGreedalox@reddit

I did $0.95/gal in 1994 or 1995. I think it was Utah or Nevada, but it all blends together now.

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Tr8cy@reddit

I remember when the first gulf war started. My mom got gas that was 1.54 for premium and that was just craziness that we couldn't believe.

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Ok-Street7504@reddit

Had a motorcycle in 1988 that had a 5 gallon tank and I could fill it up for less than five bucks. if memory serves gas was about 85 to 88 cents a gallon.

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BossKatana@reddit

I remember $25 dollars keeping me in gas, beer and $0.29 tacos for Taco Bell for a week in 1988.

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knt1229@reddit

I remember paying 0.89 cents per gallon back in the 90s.

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Winter_Afternoon3539@reddit

I filled the tank in my mustang and couldn’t believe it cost me $12 and I’d have to do that once a week.

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oldladylivesinashoe@reddit

.53 cents is the lowest I remember, family road trip and we happened upon a couple stations having a gas war lol everybody else was like 59 cents

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nb6635@reddit

Paid 35¢ in middle of Indiana when it dropped once in or around summer of 1986?

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CrankyUrbanHermit@reddit

I remember when it went over a dollar many of the old stations had to get new signs cause they didn’t have space for the new 1

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jeep242@reddit

.85 a gallon in 2001, close to Stevens College in Hoboken, NJ

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skeeterbmark@reddit

Me personally, like not just being in the car when my parents paid, I remember paying $.88.

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mklein0029@reddit

.35¢ it was a special the corner gas station was doing for only a certain amount of time had to wait in a pretty long line. It was the early 90's

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MsAdventuresBus@reddit

1992-1994 in Texas. Always under $1

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Etrigone@reddit

We took a cross country trip back in the mid 90s. I recall 89c/gallon somewhere in the Carolinas or Georgia.

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ExGomiGirl@reddit

89 cents Eureka, MO, either late 80’s / early ‘90’s.

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Full_Security7780@reddit

Probably about $0.75 per gallon about 1994.

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atlredneck@reddit

.69 a gallon around 1996

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splorp_evilbastard@reddit

$0.89/gallon in central Ohio sometime around 1989.

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nakerusa@reddit

Since I didn't start driving until the 90s, I'm guessing 90 cents a gallon or so? It was under a buck for quite a while.

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JJDiet76@reddit

On the way to Atlanta, Newnan Georgia was always the cheapest. .72 cents was the cheapest I remember

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hernondo@reddit

I think the cheapest I ever paid was around .89 cents. Would have been around 1992-ish.

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onions-make-me-cry@reddit

When I first started driving in 1997, I remember it being around $1 a gallon in California. And I remember in the 80s it was less than $1 because as a little kid I used to read the signs and the prices.

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OldGrumpyRogue@reddit

28 cents a litre in the early 80’s and bout 38-40 cents late 80’s in Delta B.C.

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Left-Thinker-5512@reddit

$.68 a gallon in 1983. I was working at a pizza shop part time making $3.25 an hour.

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Raul_Duke_1755@reddit

Not the $5.83 I paid today.

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JimTheJerseyGuy@reddit

At some point in the late 90s I saw my first and only sub-$1 gas. I filled up at a place on Route 35 in NJ for $0.79/gallon.

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9001@reddit

Cheapest I remember seeing is 35 cents per litre.

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the_OG_fett@reddit

.75 in CA 1989

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Qedtanya13@reddit

I remember it at about .$60 when I was a kid.

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Coconut-bird@reddit

Started driving in 85. My first car took regular gas at .79 /gallon. Of course the minimum wage was only 3.35 an hour then too.

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elkniodaphs@reddit

I remember when it first went over $1 my thought was, "well, it's all downhill from here." Thirty-five years later, still waiting to be proven wrong on that one.

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Dangerous_Prize_4545@reddit

0.59 cents in Virginia in the mid 90s. Teenage me and my bf definitely filled his tank up after school by finding loose change in the cup holder, between the seats and our pockets a time or two.

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Bucks2174@reddit

.79 a gallon around 1990

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nmincone@reddit

Me too, Hess

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R67H@reddit

In the late 90s I moved from a California expensive town to a California cheap town. Gas had been over a buck since I had been buying it in the mid 80s (most of the time) and when we were looking at housing, what got me to move was the $0.96/gal all over the place! That, along with low housing cost and comparable income potential. It lasted a couple of months. Kinda a bait and switch situation with the gas AND housing, because costs just kept going higher and higher on both fronts, and the income stayed the same. Glad I left, though, because the COL in the place I left just skyrocketed and no end in sight

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Twizt1Up@reddit

8 bucks filled my '83 Camaro, 14-gal tank if I remember correctly

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BaldBombshell@reddit

I was working at a gas station in the mid 90s. I got yelled at by a customer when gas went over a dollar.

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Iamdrasnia@reddit

I might have said something rude 2 that bitch.

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xloumeisterx@reddit

It was always 89-99 cents in the early mid 90s. It was the same during covid when no one was driving...I took a picture at the time because it will never be that low again.

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damageddude@reddit

Modern times: I remember paying under $1 a gallon in NJ circa 2000. Childhood before 1979 my parents paying in the 50 cents range at the cheap station. Adjust both for inflation.

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Iamdrasnia@reddit

.99 cents at Arco 1990 at Arden Expo Sacramento

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cleg74@reddit

Something like .95. I remember that it was generally $5 bucks to get 5 gallons and get on down the road.

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missmarimck@reddit

I had a brand new volkswagen rabbit when I was 16. It was 1989. My dad would give me a $20 bill to go get gas. I would fill the tank for $7 and some change. I think it was a 10 gallon tank.

I never gave my dad back the change.

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SnowblindAlbino@reddit

I remember being poor in college and needing gas to drive 40 miles to visit my GF. I could get enough gas for $2 to make the round trip.

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Quietus76@reddit

$0.79 is the lowest I can remember putting in my own car.

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Low_Yam7637@reddit

It was Evansville, IN. 1997

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bendingoutward@reddit

And the grippos may as well have been free. The ski flowed like water.

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Wyldemage@reddit

1989, Northern Virginia, I remember the cheapest I ever paid being $0.59 during some gas war locally. It averaged around $0.65 to $0.75 until I graduated HS.

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SnowblindAlbino@reddit

I remember $.62/gallon in Wyoming in 1991, but that was especially low. And of course gas for well under $.50/gallon in the early 1970s, but I was just a kid then and wasn't paying for it.

If you look at constant dollars (inflation adjusted) however, the lowest prices in US history were in fact both the early (pre-OPEC embargo) 1970s and the 1990s. The lowest absolute price was around 1999.

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Pristine_Software_55@reddit

During the Gulf War, a gas station in central Alberta was charging 17 cents per liter - Canadian! And I think I remember 35 cents but really 60-85 cents was my usual ‘growing up’ price

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Fritz5678@reddit

Stopped at some out of the gas station going to spring break in 86. We were both standing outside of the car while it was filling to stretch our legs. We both happened to notice the price per gallon at the same time and shouted 78 cents!!!!

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Impressive-Shame-525@reddit

First ever fill up was 65 cents a gallon, leaded..

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SWO6@reddit

15¢. Bahrain in 1999.

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Low_Yam7637@reddit

What’s the exchange rate?

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TheWarDoctor@reddit

1998, north side of Atlanta, .62 for regular.

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Bromodrosis@reddit

1987 in North Atlanta was about .58

Smokes were .75 and I swore I'd quit before I paid a buck for a pack.

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Greyburm@reddit

I also remember it being under a dollar right after september 11th, for a few weeks to a month

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ExtremeClock6496@reddit

.69 per gallon-mid 80’s

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kjs0705@reddit

I think my first fill was about $.89 a gallon in the mid nineties. I'm not sure since I started getting my own gas that I've seen below 85 or so.

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oceansapart333@reddit

I remember when I graduated high school in ‘96, it was still under $1.00 and being annoyed the next few years any time it would creep up over $1.00.

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SnowflakeSWorker@reddit

$.99 Carlisle, Pa. 1998 or 1999.

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ripper4444@reddit

.86 1994 or 1995

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spotspam@reddit

A little over a dollar, 1989

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whyarewetrying@reddit

.79 1994 Georgia

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cornerzcan@reddit

$0.42 Canadian. Late 80’s.

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A_Tom_McWedgie@reddit

For a very brief moment during COVID, it was about $.60/litre in Toronto.

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Flashy-Winter-3803@reddit

I remember.85 for a gallon of gas, 1.25 for smokes.1986 mid west.

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rhea2779@reddit

Got my first car in 97, conveniently during a gas war. I was paying 0.23 cents a litre. I remember being shocked when it went up to 0.50.

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temerairevm@reddit

In about 1999 I remember getting it in Virginia for under $1. They had really low taxes on gas and we used to drive there from Maryland for it.

I’m sure it was also under $1 in high school. I remember my mom reminiscing about it being 25 cents and rolling my eyes.

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hesathomes@reddit

Pre-driving I remember seeing it at .29 and .34.

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YourGuyK@reddit

I'm sure I've paid 89 cents in my time driving, which started in 1995.

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ImmySnommis@reddit

67¢ at a Citgo in Virginia, 1995

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WorkOk4911@reddit

55.9 cents in Augusta, GA, circa 1986

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gingerthetrailpup@reddit (OP)

😭 I thought under a buck was cheap around that time

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YLCZ@reddit

I remember my family was on a road trip heading back to Los Angeles from Phoenix and we almost ran out of gas because we did not to pay .49 per gallon around Blythe or Indio.

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Icy-Cardiologist-958@reddit

I think $0.97 back in the day. It screwed up my carb though.

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Obwyn@reddit

Gas was under $1/g when I started driving in 1995. I could fill up my truck for under $20 even if it was on E.

Of course that $20 was also 4 hours worth of work for me.

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beyondplutola@reddit

$.79; Maverick Gas; Farr West, UT; 1997

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Forsaken-Owl1720@reddit

I remember when my mom was exclaiming that it had gotten to $0.50/gal. '70s

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Goblin_warrior@reddit

97 cents

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prefabsprout1@reddit

I remember .78 in the mid 70’s

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FlightlessBird201@reddit

I didn’t pay for it, but as a kid a friend’s dad was driving us to summer camp (sometime in the mid80s). We were at the corner of 2 minor/major roads in southern Indiana and he noticed the gas was $.24. He told us to remember this because we would never see it again. He was correct. I remember gas hovered around $.30-$.50 all summer that year. Personally, I think $.69 during a gas war in Indianapolis when a new station opened.

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Stillwater-Scorp1381@reddit

.96 in the 90’s

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contructpm@reddit

I remember $1.13.

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FreeThinkerFran@reddit

Back when I first started driving in ‘86, I remember gas regularly being in the 80-cent range. I was in Florida

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bonzai2010@reddit

I can recall paying .89 when I was a kid. That wasn’t the cheapest I ever paid. In fact, I think I remember it because it was kind of high :$

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vertigocin@reddit

That's what it was when I started driving in 1989. I remember the backlash when it went over $1 a gallon not long after that

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manniax@reddit

Cheapest I remember seeing as an adult was 89 cents a gallon in Oklahoma while driving through there in early 1995.

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PrincessPilar@reddit

I remember going to fill my tank - taking a $20 bill to the window, telling them I was going to fill, and returning for my change.

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Background_Half_2573@reddit

.78 in Metro Detroit back in 1993 - my first fill-up!

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dallassoxfan@reddit

I remember .779 in Lafayette Louisiana in early 99.

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Willing-Shape-7643@reddit

When I got my first car gas was $0.97 per gallon. I felt like I could drive forever off like $12. Of course I lived in a very small town and rarely drove anywhere further than a mile unless we had to go to a bigger town for something we couldn’t get close to home.

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stefczech@reddit

79 cents in Omaha mid or late 90s

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deagh@reddit

59 cents a gallon in Texas in 1987

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SaltyBlackBroad@reddit

.89 cents in 1985

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KitchenWitch021@reddit

I remember being annoyed it cost $16 to fill up my S-10 pickup in 1990. I’m also certain it was under $1 a gallon in Pennsylvania.

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Batintfaq@reddit

Man, 20 bucks filled your tank and you got change back in the day.

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Slight-Excitement-37@reddit

98c in 90's in central Missouri

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JacknSundrop@reddit

.69 at the racetrack in Ga off I-24

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mypcrepairguy@reddit

.99c in the 90's in colorado small town (red rocks) gas station. Filled up that tank for under $20 and managed to spill a significant amount on the ground. Learned quickly that was not ok for the paint or ground. Now that same amount costs me $80+

The late nineteen hundreds were radical®

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Batintfaq@reddit

Moved to Bullhead City, AZ in the mid-90s and gas was .89. I was so happy because gas in Cali was 1.19.

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Big_Difference_9978@reddit

79 cents per gallon. Road trip to Florida 1997

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dethb0y@reddit

It's hard to say because of inflation, but i remember paying < 1$ a gallon during the 1980's when i ran a lawn mowing business. I believe around 80-odd cents.

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Osinuous@reddit

$0.83 at the gas station by my house growing up. I could fill my 87 firebird up for under $10.

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ab39z@reddit

In college in1986, I was paying about 65 cents a gallon.

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budcub@reddit

I remember paying .89 per gallon for leaded gas in Southern MD.

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Blametheorangejuice@reddit

Same I’m Virginia. There was a news article in our local rag about a farmer that bought two underground tanks and filled them wholesale when it was .88 retail. I am guessing he had the last laugh.

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Sloth_grl@reddit

That’s the lowest I remember too. I am from central Illinois

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Last-Relationship166@reddit

Yeah...it was under a dollar when I was in college...probably .89 or so.

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Nanojack@reddit

When I started driving in 1995, it was as low as 85 cents. My first car was a 1983 Jeep Wagoneer that got 8 miles to the gallon, I would put $5 a week in it and drive it all over.

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Interesting_Debate57@reddit

I dunno but this is a pretty remarkable list about minimum wage. If you divide one by the other I think you'll see exactly what is happening.

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FoleyV@reddit

ONE TIME, during an amazing summer it 99 cents and I drove as much as I could!

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Ute-King@reddit

Two gas stations kitty-corner from each other in Lee’s Summit, Missouri used to engage in price wars occasionally - I recall paying around 67 cents per gallon in 1992/93.

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jermo1972@reddit

Pretty sure it was 90 cents per gallon.

I was 16, it was in Southern California.

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lalapine@reddit

$.97 CA mid ‘90s.

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JJQuantum@reddit

I distinctly remember gas being 79 cents a gallon and how everyone lost their shit when it topped $1.

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MaximumJones@reddit

I think it was 79 cents when I started driving.

During the pandemic gas went down to $1 per gallon as well.

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fireflypoet@reddit

33 c per gallon in my childhood.

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JuJu_Wirehead@reddit

It was still about 99¢ around the country in 94/95. I remember because it cost me around $25 at the time time to fill up my Chevy S10 Blazer.

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Rosemary_Woodhouse@reddit

I remember paying .89

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No_File1836@reddit

It was 0.74 when I first was buying gas.

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Curious-Theory131@reddit

I paid 99c in the late 80s, and I could fill my little Subaru sedan for $11

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Smarmy_funeral_chik@reddit

During the pandemic, health care staff got a discount on fuel. I think I paid .75 per gallon. I'll never see those prices ever again. Before that I think was in the 90s around maybe .90ish cents.

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Technical-Sky-5765@reddit

Not sure of the per gallon cost but I remember being able to buy enough gas to get from Piqua to Dayton with the change I gathered from the cup holders and the floor, probably 70-80 cents worth

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Primary_Channel5427@reddit

.96 cents may 6, 1998 Sheetz, Emmitsburg, MD

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ThoughtCharming8917@reddit

$0.879 day I picked up my brand new ‘99 Honda Civic coupe. Great car!

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Electronic-Ear2329@reddit

Got down to about $.65/gallon in the DC area that same time, but only for a couple weeks.

I vividly recall $.51/gallon the standard for much of the mid/late 70s in the DC area. Texas at the time was $.48/gallon - the cheapest I can remember seeing it.

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