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Dust the cobwebs off your brain and tell me….

How low can you go?

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Filling up the tank hurts these days. But it wasn’t always that way. I fondly recall pulling into a gas station and not paying a bit of attention to the price.

And while I remember the oil embargo of the 1970’s, I was a child and couldn’t tell you what my parents paid when the stations were open on alternating Monday and Thursday afternoons.

Newly married in the early eighties? Gas up the road from our house in North Carolina was .79 cents a gallon.

I filled my car for $11.06.

Doesn’t that sound wonderful?

Now you.

What’s the cheapest price you remember paying?

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27 thoughts on “Let’s play.”

  1. In college, my parents paid me petrol money–2000 rs per month in 2009-10. 1 ltr per day was all I needed: 52 Rs. I used to save a lot and buy a lot of knick snacks out of the savings. Now I shudder when I stand at the petrol station

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  2. Oh I can go a lot farther back than that! I remember the Red Head station in South Charleston selling gas for 28 cents a gallon. Yes!!! TWENTY-EIGHT CENTS!

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  3. This’ll give away my age: I started driving just before the start of the OPEC oil embargo; I can remember gas being 55 cents a gallon—at the brand name high priced stations by the freeway, where the people most likely to fill up were the out of town travelers on their way to Los Angeles or Seattle. When gas hit 79 cents a gallon, we were like “holy moly, that’s expensive!” (We had absolutely no idea of things to come.) We also kept an eye out for gas stations with no lines, as the few with “cheap” gas (72 cents a gallon) often had lines going out in the street and where you were most likely to see fights breaking out, or almost worse, the attendant coming out with a hastily made sign saying “Out of gas.”

    I read somewhere that the oil embargo made the US step up its own oil production and as a result forced OPEC to lower their prices. But I don’t think the oil companies here got the memo about “cheaper domestic oil.” 😦

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    1. The fact that we still subsidize oil companies while they get filthy rich with record breaking profits makes me ill. 10-35 billion dollars in subsidies annually. Why are we still doing this? The embargo is long over.
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    2. Yesterday I heard, on NPR that prices are likely to climb another $2/gal by the end of July…. making me even more pissed off about all the cheato-made crisisesssesss that I’ve realized are just about adding to the wealth of the wealthy via insider trading, etc.

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      1. I don’t know how working families are going to afford filling up their cars this summer, let alone groceries and clothes for the kiddos. I was shopping for summer clothes for my youngest grandkid, and the prices are through the roof. A toddler’s t shirt going for $10-12-–it’s just an itty bitty piece of fabric compared to an adult’s. The tariffs have been ruled illegal, but I haven’t seen stuff made in China or Bangladesh go down in price. I guess the parents have to choose between clothes and having a running car to get to work in.

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  6. Personally, I recall 99-cent gas for a very brief time in the late ’90s in Portland. But my parents often share a humorous story about how my dad refused to gas up at his favorite station because they’d raised the price to 28 cents a gallon. Dare to dream!

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  7. I don’t remember the prices, but I’d put $5 in at a time. I was driving my parents cars. Also, I remember the 70s with the huge lines and we would wait and wait. We had days we could get gas depending on our license plate last number — odd or even.

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  9. When do we switch to selling by the liter so the prices look lower? Now I remember when they had to change gas pumps because the reel that they adjusted manually to change prices only went up to 99.9 cents. To go over a dollar required new machines.

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  10. The lowest I remember paying was like 95 cents a gallon, but I remember in the 70’s Mom pulling into full service and getting a gallon for about 60 cents

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  12. I can’t remember, but when I lived in Montana in my early-mid 20s, I was outraged that gasoline spiked to $1.40/gallon. Now, of course, I’d give almost anything to have that price again. Heck, I’ll take $2.40/gallon at this rate!

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