todays question....with gas over $3 per gal.how much was gas when you first started driving?

[Dancing Fire]

in 1976 unleaded cost me 59 cents per gal.low grade leaded cost 49 cents per gal.premium leaded was like 54 cents per gal.

 

[EdSkinner]

In 1969 you could get leaded regular for .34 cents a gallon or GULF Gulfcrest for .28 cents pg.

 

[Blue824]

I want to say around $1.20ish? But I remember even before that when gas was like 79 cents!

 

[mepearl53]

Date: 9/1/2005 1:55:45 PM
Author: HAMMER
In 1969 you could get leaded regular for .34 cents a gallon or GULF Gulfcrest for .28 cents pg.

I started driving in this year also and could have a fun weekend for $2.00. But you could get a new car for $4,000.00

 

[Diamonds4Me]

I don't remember what gas prices were in 1996 but the price of crude oil was $22.84/barrel. Those were the days.


ETA: If you follow this link it gives a timeline of crude oil prices from the 1940's to present.

Timeline

 

[EdSkinner]

Date: 9/1/2005 2:37:43 PM
Author: mepearl53

Date: 9/1/2005 1:55:45 PM
Author: HAMMER
In 1969 you could get leaded regular for .34 cents a gallon or GULF Gulfcrest for .28 cents pg.

I started driving in this year also and could have a fun weekend for $2.00. But you could get a new car for $4,000.00

You must have been driving a big Buick. You could get a VW bug for $1,799.00. Bread was .25 cents a loaf and so was setting diamond meli.

 

[Iceman]

I remember when $2 would give me 1/2 a tank! Dang , I must be old

 

[Iceman]

I also remember seeing the new Plymouth Road Runner superbird in the show room for $3,500 and thought that was a kings ransom!

 

[mepearl53]

Date: 9/1/2005 4:01:06 PM
Author: HAMMER

Date: 9/1/2005 2:37:43 PM
Author: mepearl53

Date: 9/1/2005 1:55:45 PM
Author: HAMMER
In 1969 you could get leaded regular for .34 cents a gallon or GULF Gulfcrest for .28 cents pg.

I started driving in this year also and could have a fun weekend for $2.00. But you could get a new car for $4,000.00

You must have been driving a big Buick. You could get a VW bug for $1,799.00. Bread was .25 cents a loaf and so was setting diamond meli.

Z 28 Camero

Got married years later and urban assault vehiicle. Empty nester Ford Explorer or anything that will get me to work and home.

 

[mepearl53]

Date: 9/1/2005 4:08:10 PM
Author: Iceman
I remember when $2 would give me 1/2 a tank! Dang , I must be old

You are to most

 

[Dancing Fire]

Date: 9/1/2005 3:05:47 PM
Author: Diamonds4Me
I don''t remember what gas prices were in 1996 but the price of crude oil was $22.84/barrel. Those were the days.


ETA: If you follow this link it gives a timeline of crude oil prices from the 1940''s to present.

Timeline

D4Me
i remember oil was like $10 (98-99) a barrel during the high tech stock market bubble.at the time i was holding a lot of oil stocks. then one day i was stupid enough to sold off all my oil related stocks and bought into the tech bubble.

 

[Diamonds4Me]

Date: 9/1/2005 4:34:23 PM
Author: Dancing Fire

Date: 9/1/2005 3:05:47 PM
Author: Diamonds4Me
I don''t remember what gas prices were in 1996 but the price of crude oil was $22.84/barrel. Those were the days.


ETA: If you follow this link it gives a timeline of crude oil prices from the 1940''s to present.

Timeline

D4Me
i remember oil was like $10 (98-99) a barrel during the high tech stock market bubble.at the time i was holding a lot of oil stocks. then one day i was stupid enough to sold off all my oil related stocks and bought into the tech bubble.

Eek!

That''s gotta stink!

I was picking on h2b. The year he was born...''67...it was $3.00 and change per barrel. I was born in ''77 and it was just over $5.00 for the first tier. I was picking on him saying that the year he was born he could have bought a whole barrel of crude for less than a gallon of gas today

 

[soulsis]

Wow...your gas is still cheaper than ours! It went up to $1.25/litre ($4.74 gallon) yesterday! Bush must be doing something right. He buys it from us, taxes the shit out of it and then we buy it back???? Man... ANYONE can run for congress Hats off to my other fellow stupid Ccanadians.

 

[Dancing Fire]

Date: 9/1/2005 4:29:16 PM
Author: mepearl53

Z 28 Camero

Got married years later and urban assault vehiicle. Empty nester Ford Explorer or anything that will get me to work and home.

Bill
i''am a BIG Camero fan.oh.... i love the 69 Z28 302 cid 290 HP,cowl induction hood and of course the Ralley Sport option is a must have

or you could of bought one of those rare ZL1 camero.

although i never owned a 69.i did own a couple of 70 RS/Z28,sold the last one (too cheap

) about 18 months ago with 9,600 original miles.

 

[MissAva]

How much would these prices be if they were adjusted for inflation?

 

[Dancing Fire]

Date: 9/1/2005 1:55:45 PM
Author: HAMMER
In 1969 you could get leaded regular for .34 cents a gallon or GULF Gulfcrest for .28 cents pg.

and don''t forget,you also get some blue chip stamps.

 

[Ann]

I can''t even remember how much gas was in 1971!

My new car in 1974 was a Toyota Corrola (sp) and I know that baby could go forever on a tank.

Now I have a Navigator - getting 14.9 miles per gallon.

Hubby has a Z-28 that has been souped up with chips and he gets about 21.

Daughter has a Mustang - don''t know her mileage

But dear son has left his 2000 Honda Insight at home instead of taking it to college this year. And that baby gets around

45 miles per gallon.

It''s mine as soon as I can clean it out!!!!

 

[ccuheartnurse]

Soulsis, I couldnt believe the price this morning... $1.268 / Litre at Shell....HOLY SMOKES!
Lets see, I was 16 in 1982 & I think gas was $.35 / litre. (roughly 3 litres in a gallon). Oh well, so much for the "lets take a drive & see where we end up today" kind of stuff.

Judy

 

[teebee]

I think it was about $0.87/gallon? I was 16 in ''90 & drove a 1982 Camaro Berlinetta... sweeeeeet...

 

[thebanjodog]

well now i am going to date myself but i remember that .35 gasoline.

i bought a brand new vw convertible 1970 savannah beige with black top for $2400.

my husband bought a new plymouth roadrunner 1969 for $3000.

we still have the vw and it is in great shape but stays mostly in the garage. my husband laments the fact that he got rid of the roadrunner after our daughter was born.

banjo

 

[Ann]

Date: 9/2/2005 12:11:24 AM
Author: thebanjodog
well now i am going to date myself but i remember that .35 gasoline.

i bought a brand new vw convertible 1970 savannah beige with black top for $2400.

my husband bought a new plymouth roadrunner 1969 for $3000.

we still have the vw and it is in great shape but stays mostly in the garage. my husband laments the fact that he got rid of the roadrunner after our daughter was born.

banjo

Oh wow, a Roadrunner!!!

My older brother had one, my parents bought it for him when he graduated high school, 1968. (or was that ''69) They had no idea what they were buying! It was bright yellow and was so fast. I grew up reading Road & Track as much as I read Seventeen.

 

[Dancing Fire]

Date: 9/1/2005 5:23:42 PM
Author: Matatora
How much would these prices be if they were adjusted for inflation?

they say something like $80 per barrel .

 

[thebanjodog]

hey ann! this one was green. first car my husband ever bought. straight out of college and moved to my hometown. how lucky can a girl get. banjo

 

[Scintillating]

In the late 90s gas prices dipped below a dollar, somewhere around .96! That was amazing!
It''s also amazing that it didn''t seem so long ago - now talk of $4.00+ ?????

Scintillating....

 

[Dancing Fire]

Date: 9/2/2005 12:55:56 AM
Author: thebanjodog
hey ann! this one was green. first car my husband ever bought. straight out of college and moved to my hometown. how lucky can a girl get. banjo

banjo
was it lime green? with one square tail light on each side? i remember 68 was like that,don''t remember 69,maybe it also had the same tail lights.

 

[Diamonds4Me]

Date: 9/2/2005 1:00:10 AM
Author: Scintillating
In the late 90s gas prices dipped below a dollar, somewhere around .96! That was amazing!
It''s also amazing that it didn''t seem so long ago - now talk of $4.00+ ?????

Scintillating....

Just three years ago, in ''02, we actually had some places selling it below a dollar. I think like $0.97.

 

[pearcrazy]

I don''t really remember. I got my license in 1980. I drove my parent''s old 1970 Chevy Malibu, aqua blue with a white convertable top. Me and my girlfriends would all pitch in .75 cents to a dollar each, get about 5 gallons of gas, drop the top and ride around town all night. I''m thinking that gas was about .80 cents a gallon then.

 

[JCJD]

1997, and gas was "expensive" if it was over $1!

 

[MINE!!]

When I started riving gas was 69 cents a gallon... Filled up the tank of my tercel (that would last over a week in heavy coomute) for 7 dollars

 

[thebanjodog]

no df it was dark green with black interior. it sure made a lot of noise when he started it up after he brought me home from a date. banjo