Gas prices have risen to historic levels with the average now over $4 per gallon. Experts say we haven't seen prices that high since 2008. AAA explains that gas prices are surging because of sanctions against Russia, which has limited its ability to sell oil on the global market.
With 2022 bringing sticker shock to drivers, you may be reminiscing about lower gas price days. Stacker ran the numbers for what gas cost per gallon over the last several decades using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The year I started driving it was 26 9/10
ReplyDeleteI'm so old(well I'm not THAT old), I'm not on the list. Nemo
ReplyDelete$.31 per gal. I was putting into Mom's VW, and Dad's 64 Dodge picmup.
ReplyDeleteI see AAA has its head up its ass too. Another one bites the dust.
ReplyDeleteThe year I started driving is not there. Cheapest I ever bought gas was $.13 a gallon during a "gas war"....
ReplyDeleteWorked for a service station back in high school that was selling it for that price during the gas wars. Now the taxes alone are way more than that.
DeleteIt doesn't start back far enough.
ReplyDeleteI well remember when gas hit .50 at the station around the corner. I truly didn't know how I was going to continue getting to work... and I was riding a Yamaha 175cc motorcycle!
ReplyDeleteGasoline in 1925 was between 20 and 25 cents a gallon. Call it a quarter.
ReplyDeleteA silver quarter.
What's that silver quarter worth today (the value of the silver)?
Coinflation.com
$4.68
Around $5.50 in parts of TN now..
ReplyDeleteSell those fuel guzzlers and buy a Tesla! 😅😅
I bought my first car in 1970, a '65 Impala, just after I got my learner's permit when I turned 15. In August 1971, the day I got my driver's license I filled it up for 18 cents a gallon. That's a tank full of gas for about $3.50. I was making about $30/wk as a bagboy at the Kash-n-Karry.
ReplyDeleteWhen I started driving in 1966 I didn't know the cost of gas since I managed to sneak gas out of the tractor gas bulk tank here on the farm without Dad knowing about it. Or so I thought. In 1970 I went to Texas to pick my cousin up at Fort Hood after he got out of AIT going into the Reserves. I bought gas for .19.9 at one station in Kansas near a refinery. Other wise, it was .23.9 to .27.9 everywhere else. Oh, that was ethyl for my '70 340 Duster.
ReplyDeleteI started driving at 16 in 1972 in west Texas. I clearly remember gas at 12 cents a gallon which occasionally dropped as low as 8 cents a gallon when the gas stations had price wars on (remember them?!). I remember seeing a story on the evening news about the plight of American Indians on a reservation out west where this old fella was putting gas in his pickup and the price was 45 cents a gallon. I thought "No way! 45 cents a gallon!"
ReplyDeleteI now live on the coast in central Queensland, Australia.
DeleteThe price has been going up about 10 cents per day for the last week.
Today's price for diesel is AU $2.179 per litre.
At today's exchange rate, that's ... US $6.015 a gallon
1969 .18c gallon but price wars between stations and you could fill up @ .15c at times
ReplyDelete1967 33 cents except gas wars that brought it down to 19 cents
ReplyDeleteAny one notice who was in office the years it had some of the highest adjusted cost?
ReplyDeleteI can remember getting gas for under a dollar and cigarettes were about 35 cents a pack.