I can't remember what gas cost when I first started driving - I didn't have my own car until after college, but by then (2001/2002), gas was about $1.36 in Middleboro, MA, and in Charlottesville, VA. But, just outside of Charlottesville, there was a gas station that had closed only a year or two before I got there, and the prices from the last day were still up - $0.99 a gallon for regular gas. It was such a tease.

gas was .28 cents a gallon in 1968 when I started driving

I can remember .89 cents a gallon in 1996

Me too, Donald! I remember gas being .89 a gallon in 1996. I could fill my whole tank for $10.

.25/gallon in 1976. Of course, I lived in Texas, where gas used to be inexpensive.

Somewhere a little over a dollar. . . I remember it falling to about $.95 for a couple years after that.

And the gas stations sold onions to tie to your belt, because that was the fashion at the time.

When I started driving in 2001, gas was going up to $1.70/gallon. Blast-from-the-past article (and awesome, 2001-y graphics!) from PBS NewsHour here: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/features/jan-june01/gas_prices.html

$3 a gallon 1990... I started driving in West Germany, so things stayed the same for me after 21 year. Although my income improved ;-) Looking forward driving an electric car soon!

I remember my dad complaining that we might not go on a family vacation the year gas shot up to 70 some cents a gallon... but can't recall the price when I started driving—I do remember my mom's shaking hands as she exited the car in the church parking lot, grabbed a cigarette, and fought not to swear in earshot of the priests.

When I started driving in 1956, I think gas was less than 20 cents per gallon. You could fill up for $4 or less.

29 cents a gallon in California in 1957, although during a gas war I once filled up for 19
cents a gallon.

When I was 17 and had a brand new 72 Camaro I could buy a case of beer, 3-packs of cigs and fill the tank on $10. Gas ranged from 28cents a gal at Homoco( down by Rips) to 33 cents per gal. Case of beer at Rips for $5, 3pks of cig at the drug store for 99 cents and gas. I thought that was a killer, it took a big chunk of my $72 a wk salary..

I don't remember what it was whe I started driving, but I do remember, when I was a kid in MA, gas was 27c (in 1970 or so). I also remember at some time it going up to 44c and there being a revolution about it.

In 1987-88 premium unleaded was about $1.09 a gallon. My '78 Datsun B-210 needed 91 octane or higher. However it could run on both leaded or unleaded, and leaded gas was around 89 cents per gallon. Leaded gas disappeared sometime in 1989.

I had a VW Beetle in 1976 that I could fill up for $5. Of course, my salary was $135 a week.

The only thing I miss about high school was the $1.75 gas

In 1969/1970 I started working at Sandy's Exxon on Route 1 in Hyattsville, while going to Northwestern. I remember people complaining that premium gas, what we referred to as "hi-test," had gone up to 32.9 cents a gallon!

28 Cents for reg 31 for high test 1969.

Back in the late 60's it was still around 25 cents a gallon. I remember pulling up to Colonial Shell (near Vier's Mill and Randolph) and asking the attendant (no self service back then) for $1 or $2 worth. If asked they would check the air in your tires, check the oil and always clean the windshield. If you filled up you might get a glass, Top Value or S&H stamps or some other promotional item.

If money was tight and I had enough gas to get there, I could go to the discount Scott Gas station down Vier's Mill Road near University, kind of accross from Hill & Sanders.

And to thin, the idiot in the white house says he would like to see it at $9, but he would like to see it go up gradually. Just like the secretart of Enery. He wants to see it at european prices. No wonder this country is in turmoil right now. Things will get much better for everyone when Romney wins in Nov. All those people that have been added to food stams, to then welfare rolls, unemployment rolls, businesses that went out of business, under this nitwit who only voted "present" prior to getting in the white house. Hell, NObama won't even put his info out there, why should ANYONE believe his sorry ass.

sorry about the typos but read between the lines. To those who think making comments about the typos are a way of getting back, I don't think so. It will just show your immaturity and like a little brat throw a temper tantrum.

Is there no place one can go to get away from trolls like B Allen? :-(

In the early 1970s gas was in the 30 to 35 cent per gallon range. This may seem real cheap compared to today’s prices, but that was in 1970s dollars. Adjusted for inflation, 35 cents in 1973 would be about $1.80 today, making gasoline twice as expensive today. Compared to Europe, American gas is a real bargain. Right now, the median price of gas (petrol) in Europe is $2 a liter, i.e. $8 per gallon. A 15 gallon fill up would set you back $120!

(Also, taxes are lowest in 30 years, but B Allen never lets facts get in the way of his rants.)

in 1969, I could buy gas (per gallon) and cigarettes (per pack) for $.35
thankfully, I quit smoking pretty quickly because now I couldn't afford both

I started driving in 1953 and gas was 23 cents a gallon. You could fill up your tank for less than $4.00

Seriously? Does everything have to become political? I don't think that was the intent of this question. But, go on B. Allen get your fill. Sheesh.

Polly...Gas prices are economically driven...therefore making it a political matter.

I had a 1982 Chevy Citation. Unfortunately I don't remember paying attention to the gas prices but I think I could fill up for under $20.

Back in the day, I commuted to Trinity College in NE DC from my home in Kensington. There was a gas station at the corner of Military Road and Missouri Avenue where I could fill up for 28 cents/gallon. Now, I get my thrills by shopping at Giant and then going to Shell for my fill up. Yesterday, I paid $3.20/gallon at the Shell station in Montgomery Village with my Giant discount, saving 40 cents. One time I actually had enough discount points to shave $1.10/gallon off the price. Even the gas station attendant came out to see it.

B. Allen - I'm cool with you having an opinion I just think you need to be so rude and insulting.

Sharon - I usually get about $1.50 and $2.00 per gallon at Weis, but I give them to my son to use. I'm disabled and don't drive much and because he works he drives a lot more than me.

When I first started driving as a senior in high school, I could get gas at an off-brand station near Blair Rd. For 19 cents a gallon. When later stationed with the Air Force in Misawa, Japan, gas, on base, was 10 cents a gallon.

Those days are long gone -- but they were fun.

Gary Hayman

1963 about 25 cents a gallon. Age 16 Same price of a pack of cigarettes.
Quit smoking in 1965.

15.9 in mid 60s in Albuquerque; 19.9 in college in Rochester, NY

Maybe 25 cents around 1960, but remember that as a college graduate my first job paid $5,200 per year. Inflation affects both incomes and prices, about equally overall. Gas prices are too low, and have been for years, to motivate people to drive more economically and/or shift to transit, not to mention the effect of excessive driving on global warming.

Steve Baldwin, Bethesda

About $.50 a gallon

I was 16 years old when I started driving in California. Gas was 17 cents a gallon.

There was one station on the road between St Louis, MO and Alton, IL where gas was sometimes 0.12/gallon. Often, my friends and I would pool our money to get $2.00 worth of gas for an evening's fun. This was early 70s. And I am still using the steak knives they gave when you got a fill-up!

Can't resist - B, calling people names is not "giving the facts."

Petroleum companies get large tax write-offs and other benefits. Does anynone know whether the amount of federal revenue foregone b/c of those tax breaks is offset by the federal retail gasoline taxes collected?

joseph chiappa anyone remember the gas station price war in new jersey
along # 46 morris co. the stations were cutting prices every day at the end of about ??
1958 to 60

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