re: Lowest gas price you can remember paying

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1967 .25/gal for regular.

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That’s the lowest I remember.

up 20 cents overnight in my neck of the woods!

3.89 and counting.
{hums Johnny Cash’s ‘Five Feet High and Rising’}

Like 80 cents... I can remember rolling into the gas station out of gas power steering quitting on me and then scrounging up enough change to buy a pizza stick and gallon or 2 of gas to get home. Had that gage timed perfectly

Farm diesel was like $.45/ gallon in the early 90’s. Big increases started under Clinton.

I started driving in 1988. Regular Unleaded was .79. I had a 12 gallon tank and could fill up on less than $10.

I don't know how parents of teenagers today are managing this.

When I first started driving back in the early 90s, my parents worked out a deal: if I got good grades, passed a drivers ed class and had an income source then they would buy me a car but I had to pay for my gas and insurance.

They bought me a 5 year old Honda Accord with 65,000 mi for around $5000. In today's dollars that is $10,000. And that was generous considering many of my classmates got hand me down beaters or grandma's gas-guzzling land yacht from the 70s.

My insurance was $300 a year. I paid that. In today's dollars around $600.

Gas was consistently below $1.00 throughout the 90s and my car got amazing gas mileage so I spent around $250 a year on gas or $500 in today's dollars.

Imagine what it would cost for a teenager today with outrageous used car prices, skyrocketing insurance and $4.00 gas.