im having a hard time remembering i think it was $1.28 or $1.29 usd per gallon when i started driving. within 10 years it would be up to $4.00/gallon. has come back down now some.
that’s for 87. i think that’s what i put in my gas tank, but unsure until i pull up to the pump and look.
I can recall when I was a kid I saw gas going for 19 cents a gallon. That was the exception, and not the norm, though. Mostly gas was like 22 - 23 cents a gallon. I remember when I was about 14 years old we had the first energy crisis, and gas skyrocketed to 40 cents a gallon. We were shocked by that.
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About 99 cents. But so were cigarettes. They both went up but gas went back down.
The oil fields in Texas and Louisiana are all losing money right now and laying everyone off.
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In 1978 I was working at a gas station. An energy crisis was happening and gas shot up to 65 cents a gallon. We charged about 70 cents a gallon because we were a full service gas station. Every car that came in we checked the oil, the water, the tires, washed all the widows. I had my first car but I couldn’t afford our own gas so on my lunch break I used to go down the street to the cheap gas station and fill my tank.
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wasnt it in the 70’s when they had long lines at the gas stations? i’ve seen pictures. did you live through that?
Yeah, I remember that. I never waited in lines though. Me and my friend cut up a garden hose and went out at 2:00 in the morning with a gas can whenever we needed gas and siphoned gas out of cars parked on the street and filled our tanks that way. But yeah, that lasted a few months and you would see lines of cars stretching more than half a block waiting to get gas.
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Yeah, gas has gone down to about $2.70 a gallon from a high of about $3.60-$3.80.
Its weird because it doesn’t get any attention in the news.
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its under $2.00 dollars here, $1.87. i love the west coast but higher fuel costs was tough when i lived there briefly, i wasn’t making much money delivering newspapers.
of course if i had the money i would gladly live in coastal nor cal or oregon. who knows may move out there some day, the 55+ communities where you own a trailer i may be able to afford someday, although it’s kind of a pipe dream, and who knows how i’ll feel 20 years from now.
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Here it was 1.19 Euro per liter. So 4.97 dollars per gallon. We tax the crap out of fuel, and yes I used a converter lol
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Gas was 4.12 when I started driving. It sucked.
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i remember from economics fuel has inelastic demand, meaning people don’t stop buying it when prices goes up. unlike other things, which a price increase will kill demand.
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Yeah you’re right! It’s a necessity pretty much. I mean if it rises too high ppl will drive less, but still it’s getting bought anywho, people just wont be filling it up all the way more than likely.
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I look it up. The internet said 36 cents was the average. I can remember 25 cents.
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When i started driving, petrol was $1.20 per litre…don’t know what that translates into in America, but here in Australia, that was fairly low.
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When I turned 16 gas was a $1.12. I’m 36 now and this is the lowest at $1.99 I’ve seen in a decade. I don’t like that people are getting laid off because of it but I have been taking advantage of it.
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