What's the Cheapest Gas You Can Remember?

Zen · « **on:** October 21, 2012, 06:11:18 PM »

I saw this Exxon gas price sign for sale on craigslist and it got me thinking. What is the cheapest price you can remember paying for gas? It was around 50 cents a gallon for regular by the time I started driving, but I can remember 32 cent a gallon gas at the pumps before the OPPEC oil embargo (1974?). The cheapest I remember is when we first moved to LaFayette, my dad could buy gas from the pump at work at their cost . . . 11 cents per gallon.

travisyoung · « **Reply #1 on:** October 21, 2012, 07:13:14 PM »

When I first started driving in 1992 I think it was around 96 cents, I can remember the stink when it went over 1 dollar

volksnick · « **Reply #2 on:** October 21, 2012, 07:53:23 PM »

I remember 89 cents from when I was a kid. When I started driving it was 1.19, shortly after I started was September 11th and it shot up. Ain't been the same since!

Smelly_Cat · « **Reply #3 on:** October 21, 2012, 07:55:23 PM »

Early 80s a pack of Marboros cost 75 cent and so did a gallon of gas. I made 3.25 / hr washing dishes a tonys pizza in FWB FLA

Russ · « **Reply #4 on:** October 21, 2012, 09:06:03 PM »

I remember it being around a dollar when I started driving. I also remember you could cross the state line into Georgia and easily fill up for about ten cents less per gallon, thanks to the lower sales tax. Then at some point I guess Georgia figured out they could raise it and now it's pretty much the same price as Tennessee.

lamar · « **Reply #5 on:** October 21, 2012, 10:16:44 PM »

I paid .26 a gallon in 1966 when I started driving.

volksnick · « **Reply #6 on:** October 21, 2012, 10:20:07 PM »

Quote from: lamar on October 21, 2012, 10:16:44 PM

I paid .26 a gallon in 1966 when I started driving.

Now we know how old Lamar is!

Ret.Bugtech · « **Reply #7 on:** October 21, 2012, 10:45:40 PM »

Quote from: Zen on October 21, 2012, 06:11:18 PM

I saw this Exxon gas price sign for sale on craigslist and it got me thinking. What is the cheapest price you can remember paying for gas? It was around 50 cents a gallon for regular by the time I started driving, but I can remember 32 cent a gallon gas at the pumps before the OPPEC oil embargo (1974?). The cheapest I remember is when we first moved to LaFayette, my dad could buy gas from the pump at work at their cost . . . 11 cents per gallon.

I use to pump gas at a Sinclair Sta. on Brainerd Rd during the summers when school was out. There were a lot of gas wars going on between different brands all the time. Cheapest I remember was 9 cents a gal. The normal prices were around 19-22 cents a gal. Early to mid '50's I think

Russ · « **Reply #8 on:** October 21, 2012, 10:50:48 PM »

I do remember full service stations being more common when I was little. There used to be one on East Brainerd Road that my mom would stop at a lot. I remember riding with her and she would pull up to the pump and there was a bell activated by a thing you ran over. They'd come out and fill the car with gas, check fluids, clean the windshield.

ASBug · « **Reply #9 on:** October 21, 2012, 11:46:46 PM »

T and I got married in 1997 and gas was $0.99 'ish a gallon and the super Walmart (with station) moved into town and got into a price war. 2 weeks later gas was at $0.68 / Gal. It was that way for 1 day and then they made nice and it went back to .99 at each place... it was the only time I have ever seen it below $.89 (when I was 16 - 1988).
Those were the days...
KC

travisyoung · « **Reply #10 on:** October 22, 2012, 05:54:06 AM »

Down the road in redbank there is still a full service station

Anthony · « **Reply #11 on:** October 23, 2012, 12:05:11 PM »

I don't remember exactly how low it ever was when I was a kid, but I remember all the stations having to tack on a "1" to their signs the first time it went over a dollar!

Zen · « **Reply #12 on:** October 23, 2012, 03:32:54 PM »

Quote from: Anthony on October 23, 2012, 12:05:11 PM

I don't remember exactly how low it ever was when I was a kid, but I remember all the stations having to tack on a "1" to their signs the first time it went over a dollar!

That was BIG deal! The old pumps topped out at 99.9 . . . kind'a like when Y2K was approaching and computers could only read the last two digits of the year. If you collected gas pumps, that was the time to stock up on them . . . a whole lot of good pumps got trashed during that time.

Smelly_Cat · « **Reply #13 on:** October 23, 2012, 09:12:24 PM »

when i was 16, me and the boys would get some empty gas cans and some garden hose and climb the fence to the school bus depot. We had to feed a thirsty Buick Century. That was the cheapest gas ever.

volksnick · « **Reply #14 on:** October 23, 2012, 10:00:23 PM »

I remember when they had to retool the signs to accommodate numbers larger than 1.99. The one seemed like a permanent fixture for a while

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