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

[mepearl53]

Date: 9/1/2005 5:10:39 PM
Author: 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.

I had it two weeks and got 3 speeding tickets and finished my high school career at Howe Military School class of 71

 

[AGBF]

Date: 9/1/2005 1:00:40 PM
Author: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.

I do not recall the price when I started driving (although I am sure someone could look it up if I supplied the year!). I do recall that as a child we drove from Connecticut to Lake Chateaugay in New York (on the Canadian border). One year I remember my father being pleased to find an area where gas was only "twenty-nine-nine". I am not sure if I knew that meant just under 30 cents. Probably.

I first drove at age 15, which would mean 1966.

Deborah

 

[MelissaSue]

When I first started driving it was probably around $1.20, but for whatever reason, shortly after I started driving the price DROPPED quite sharply shortly after I started driving, because one of my first jobs was at a gas station and I remember how cool it was that gas was under a dollar! (It was like .98-.99 cents for awhile).. but I know it hadn't been that low for awhile before that.. I don't know why it dropped!

ETA - I got my license in Summer 1998, it dropped over the fall/winter of 98

 

[Tacori E-ring]

In 1996 it was .89 cents. I miss those days...

 

[Momoftwo]

Well, relative to inflation and the cost of living, gas prices are still below what they should be for 2005. Look at how much everything else has gone up in the last 20 years. For some reason people expect gas to stay low. It makes no sense whatsoever. Cars are double what they were just 10-15 years ago. Houses have gone up more than that. Why shouldn''t gas?