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What's the cheapest gas price you remember ?
« on: October 27, 2022, 05:17:07 PM »
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Re: What's the cheapest gas price you remember ?
« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2022, 07:02:36 PM »
21 cents at a Mobil station I worked at in high school (1966). Gas War with the Shell station across the street. The owner said he was guaranteed 4 cents a gallon anytime the price dipped below 25 cents. It was generally around 28-30 cents. Until Carter it was always under $1.
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Re: What's the cheapest gas price you remember ?
« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2022, 08:45:14 PM »
77 cents at a BP Station around 1978. Cheaper than the Exxon station I worked at. 

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Re: What's the cheapest gas price you remember ?
« Reply #3 on: October 27, 2022, 09:51:50 PM »
 .20/gal premium in 1967, Kansas city, Kansas price war with stations across the river in KC, MO.  Refineries were on Kansas side with lower taxes and property values at the time. 8)

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Re: What's the cheapest gas price you remember ?
« Reply #4 on: October 28, 2022, 12:07:28 AM »
Growing up in SoCal, I remember $0.26-29 at a lot of stations in the mid-late '60s, which slowly increased to the low-mid 30s until the first oil embargo (1973.)  Then it jumped by 10-15 cents.

Lots of stations were in the high $0.40s by 1975.  Then, a steady climb to...

In 1979 (second embargo) it jumped to around 75-80 cents.   

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Re: What's the cheapest gas price you remember ?
« Reply #5 on: October 28, 2022, 12:10:39 AM »
Sick price, dont want to think about it!
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Re: What's the cheapest gas price you remember ?
« Reply #6 on: October 28, 2022, 12:44:26 PM »
Brett: Where was the station you worked at?

Beautiful Baldwin Park. A friend worked at a Shell in Covina but we bought our gas across the street - Chevron White pump.
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Re: What's the cheapest gas price you remember ?
« Reply #7 on: October 28, 2022, 09:59:33 PM »
Mid 20 cent range.

Do recall well my dad warning me, as a kid,  that one of these days it's going to take $20 to fill you car's gas tank.  Did and zoomed past that as we've all experienced
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Re: What's the cheapest gas price you remember ?
« Reply #8 on: October 29, 2022, 11:32:29 AM »
Traveling through Texas in the early '60s while we were moving to a new station when the Army had a new assignment for my dad.  Prices were $0.16 to $0.19.  I remember my dad saying that they were having a gas war.  I asked him what that was (I think I was about 6 at the time)?  He said that the gas stations were trying to see who could have the lowest price.
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Re: What's the cheapest gas price you remember ?
« Reply #9 on: October 29, 2022, 01:47:52 PM »
I was with my dad driving from St. Paul Minnesota to Dallas TX around 1970. We were in Oklahoma City and there were two gas stations across the street from each other. One had a sign that advertised 18.9 cents per gallon, the other 19.9 cents per gallon for Regular.

We pulled in the station with the cheaper price for Regular, the Premium needed for Dad's wagon was 23.9 cents per gallon. He drove across the street and the other station had Premium at 22.9 cents per gallon. We filled up there.
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Re: What's the cheapest gas price you remember ?
« Reply #10 on: October 29, 2022, 05:37:41 PM »
Funny what our dads used to do to save literally one cent.   

But, on a fill-up of a 20 gallon tank, a penny a gallon would save you enough to buy one McDonald's basic hamburger (19 cents, in the early-mid 1960s.)  Dad was no dummy.
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Re: What's the cheapest gas price you remember ?
« Reply #11 on: October 29, 2022, 05:58:26 PM »
well, we used to steal it from the neighbors state patrol car (sorry daren) but what we bought was 18.9 in 1970. paid for it with coke bottles we stole from the local holiday inn..

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Re: What's the cheapest gas price you remember ?
« Reply #12 on: October 29, 2022, 07:17:19 PM »
well, we used to steal it from the neighbors state patrol car (sorry daren) but what we bought was 18.9 in 1970. paid for it with coke bottles we stole from the local holiday inn..

Many here have done it, including me. Welcome to the no charge club.I respect your honesty.


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Re: What's the cheapest gas price you remember ?
« Reply #13 on: October 29, 2022, 07:56:25 PM »
I remember my dad driving a tanker truck to the  next town and filled it up for 15 cents per gallon to take it back to a Fina station. Ron

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Re: What's the cheapest gas price you remember ?
« Reply #14 on: October 29, 2022, 08:52:58 PM »

I think the cheapest I recall was .17cents a gallon along with S&H Green stamps, remember those? Along with a fill up, they checked your tires, fluids and cleaned your windshield.  8)