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Tiger Spirit [9267]
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Gas Prices vs. Your Age.......
Mar 7, 2022, 12:12 PM
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With gas prices near or over $4/gallon now, what's the lowest gas price you can actually remember seeing?
I can remember as a little kid seeing it at $.29/gallon when I was growing up in Greenville.
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Asst Coach [891]
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Re: Gas Prices vs. Your Age.......
Mar 7, 2022, 12:18 PM
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$0.17 during gas wars.
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Re: Gas Prices vs. Your Age.......
Mar 7, 2022, 12:59 PM
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.17 to .25/gallon during price works back in the mid to late '60's. There was usually a full sevvice gas station on evert corner (that wold trigger gas wars at least twice a year.
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Re: Gas Prices vs. Your Age.......
Mar 7, 2022, 2:18 PM
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I remember those days. Used to drive all the way to Anderson to fill up because it was cheaper there
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Re: Gas Prices vs. Your Age.......
Mar 7, 2022, 12:18 PM
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I can remember 25 cents per gallon
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.79 When I started driving around 95***
Mar 7, 2022, 12:18 PM
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Re: Gas Prices vs. Your Age.......
Mar 7, 2022, 12:19 PM
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I remember paying $0.65/ gal when I first started driving. whats funny is we had no money to pay for gas so the needle was always on empty and I played the "how far till it dies" game a lot. Only lost like 2 times.
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Orange Blooded [2226]
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I remember $0.29 too.
Mar 7, 2022, 12:19 PM
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And I remember my dad once telling a gas station attendant...this was pre self-service of course...that the station's $0.35 price was outrageous.
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Tiger Spirit [9267]
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That's a good point - back when gas was the cheap it was....
Mar 7, 2022, 12:26 PM
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always pumped for you - no self-serve existed like today.
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Clemson Sports Icon [59993]
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Re: That's a good point - back when gas was the cheap it was....
Mar 7, 2022, 4:00 PM
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You had to pump yourself at the old country stores that sold gas, and it was higher at the country stores than it was at a gas station!!!
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Re: Gas Prices vs. Your Age.......
Mar 7, 2022, 12:20 PM
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I remember getting .$86 per gallon in Clemson (sometime in the mid 80's). I had a 1978 Honda accord that got around 38 mpg. I remember filling up and going places with some buddies just because it was so cheap -- like one trip to Athens to a place called the Mad Hatter I think.
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Rival Killer [2926]
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Re: Gas Prices vs. Your Age.......
Mar 7, 2022, 6:43 PM
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Went to the mad hatter to see REM for the release of the Rumors EP
Fun bar
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CU Medallion [20523]
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Lowest I ever saw was in 1989 while in
Mar 7, 2022, 12:20 PM
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school. The avg was 1.19, but there were gas station wars on many corners across the country, and seeing a gallon for .79 - .99 wasn't that unusual.
Remember those?
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Re: Gas Prices vs. Your Age.......
Mar 7, 2022, 12:26 PM
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$0.25
i was 10 and was cutting grass around the neighborhood, milk jug full of gas over the handle bars, pulling a push mower
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Re: Gas Prices vs. Your Age.......
Mar 7, 2022, 12:36 PM
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Paid .22 per gallon. During a gas war paid .05 in Greenville once. Told the attendant I wanted $10.00 and didn’t notice the sign and he asked where I wanted it. Both had a good laugh over that one. Had just drove in from Florida.
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Re: Gas Prices vs. Your Age.......
Mar 7, 2022, 12:39 PM
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I went to college in Charleston and they had a gas war in 1970 and the lowest price was .16 cents a gallon. Lasted for a couple of weeks.
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Varsity [202]
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Re: Gas Prices vs. Your Age.......
Mar 7, 2022, 12:53 PM
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Paid single digit price per gallon at Hess on Main near the old Mama Penns in Anderson in 70. Don’t remember exact price but filled an empty VW bug for $1.00.
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Re: Gas Prices vs. Your Age.......
Mar 7, 2022, 12:47 PM
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Milk jug? That's low rent. I had a brown glass Chlorox Jug! A quarter's worth would get me through four yards and a weekly pay of $3.50.
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Re: Gas Prices vs. Your Age.......
Mar 7, 2022, 12:43 PM
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0.33 in about 1968
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Re: Gas Prices vs. Your Age.......
Mar 7, 2022, 12:44 PM
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Going to guess around .79. I remember seeing it at 1.29 one day and thought that was crazy high.
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Re: Gas Prices vs. Your Age.......
Mar 7, 2022, 12:45 PM
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24.9 -- 64
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Re: Gas Prices vs. Your Age.......
Mar 7, 2022, 12:47 PM
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0.89
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Orange Phenom [14792]
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I think it was .72
Mar 7, 2022, 12:48 PM
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I started driving in 1992. It was in the first 5 years, in Va.
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Dynasty Maker [3313]
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Re: Gas Prices vs. Your Age.......
Mar 7, 2022, 12:51 PM
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Spinx station in Pendleton (I think). 89.9 pretty much the entire 4 years I was in school (Fall of 94 through Spring of 98).
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Orange Immortal [68081]
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I started driving in 1978 and 79...
Mar 7, 2022, 12:52 PM
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and I distinctly remember gas prices being in the .63 cents per gallon range. It cost me about $6.00 to fill the tank. Gas is now SIX TIMES higher than it was when I started driving.
I was a freshman at Clemson in 1981 and that was the first time in my lifetime that gas prices exceeded $1.00 per gallon at $1.19.
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Heisman Winner [80785]
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I remember a "gas war" when I was about 15 and had just
Mar 7, 2022, 1:04 PM
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started driving. This was something that never happens now, stations were LOWERING prices trying to lure your business away from the opposition. The price bottomed out at 15.9 cents a gallon. It rebounded back up, and was "stable" at 21.9 cents a gallon for almost a year.
This would have been around 1969-70. I could fill up my car for ~$4.00.
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CU Medallion [20523]
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That was prior to pay at the pump. The
Mar 7, 2022, 5:25 PM
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gas wars were launched because every customer had to enter the store. Losing a cent or two per gallon was acceptable because every customer got a sofa, a chocolate bar or a pack of cigs at the register.
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Tiger Spirit [9539]
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This morning. Got it for $0.29/gallon.
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Mar 7, 2022, 1:06 PM
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Then I rode by another filling station that had it for $0.25.
I was so mad!!!! Lol
Don’t believe all this misinformation about $4.00 and higher gas. It’s simply not true.
Jen Psacki told me it’s just another right wing nut job conspiracy, and to turn off Fox News.
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Clemson Sports Icon [58511]
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Re: Gas Prices vs. Your Age.......
Mar 7, 2022, 1:16 PM
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When I started driving in the early '70s, there were gas wars going on--prices would drop to .19/gal. Normal gas prices were around .39/gal.
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110%er [4051]
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Re: Gas Prices vs. Your Age.......
Mar 7, 2022, 1:21 PM
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.09 cents a gallon in 1952 in Gastonia, N.C. during gas war in N.C. My Grandfather and Dad drove there and purchased about 50 gallons. I sat in the back seat holding the cans together back to Winnsboro, S.C. while both of them smoked cigarettes and cigars on the way back!
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Game Day Hero [4408]
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I remember .15 / gal & milk was left on our front porch***
Mar 7, 2022, 1:24 PM
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110%er [6825]
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Re: Gas Prices vs. Your Age.......
Mar 7, 2022, 1:54 PM
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I am BAD luck for gas prices and Clemson....
#3.81 in 1981 ... or $1.35 in 1981 dollars, but still nearly $4 back then. I was't even able to walk but folks told me that everyone was freaking out....
2008 Clemson part 1 - Fuel prices his $3.86, my Clemson part 2 in 2012 has prices hit $3.99.
I went back to Clemson just to visit not to long ago and BOOM another fuel price spike.
And if curious, accounting for inflation, fuel cost over $4 over 100 years ago too....
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Game Changer [1665]
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Re: Gas Prices vs. Your Age.......
Mar 7, 2022, 2:00 PM
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I remember 72 cents per gallon around 1990-92.
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Re: Gas Prices vs. Your Age.......
Mar 7, 2022, 2:05 PM
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I also remember that a gallon of gas and a pack of cigarettes were the same price, about 35 cents.
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Tiger Spirit [9936]
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Re: Gas Prices vs. Your Age.......
Mar 7, 2022, 2:08 PM
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A quarter a gallon back in the 60's when we could drive forever in my best friend's VW Bug for a dollar.
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Re: Gas Prices vs. Your Age.......
Mar 7, 2022, 2:31 PM
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15.9 cents at the new Hess station when it was built on 123. Gas war in some respects.
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Game Changer [1614]
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Mar 7, 2022, 2:37 PM
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I’m the late nineties at the Then BP on exit 14 of I85. I grew up near that station and would ride a four wheeler there to fill up gas cans.
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Re: Gas Prices vs. Your Age.......
Mar 7, 2022, 3:53 PM
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$0.23 cents a gallon, and that was with me using it. I have no idea what my momma, and daddy was paying for it, but I bet that it was cheap!!!!
How many of you got a beginner drivers permit at 14, I did....
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Game Changer [1634]
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Re: Gas Prices vs. Your Age.......
Mar 7, 2022, 4:22 PM
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The Hess station in Anderson, SC would start “gas wars” and sell regular for $.169! At the time I was driving a 63 Chevy Impala and didn’t even care that it got about 10 miles per gallon. I could fill up for less than $4.00. Thos were the days!
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1st Rounder [605]
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Re: Gas Prices vs. Your Age.......
Mar 7, 2022, 4:40 PM
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I turn 69 this month and remember gas at 25 cents per gallon in Winston-Salem
in 1969.
Payed $4 this afternoon at Harris Teeter using my reward points…
Thank you President Biden.
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Re: Gas Prices vs. Your Age.......
Mar 7, 2022, 4:47 PM
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My current age is 71,but to be fair on this I will give you the price of gas when I bought my first car in 1969( I was 19).It was a whopping .34 cents a gallon. Not bad except my car was one owner 1969 GTO and I think it got 8 miles to the gallon.
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1st Rounder [605]
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Re: Gas Prices vs. Your Age.......
Mar 7, 2022, 5:16 PM
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Do you still have that ‘69 Goat?
That was a sweet ride!!!
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Re: Gas Prices vs. Your Age.......
Mar 7, 2022, 4:55 PM
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When I was young .15 Dad would send to Gas station on my bike to get a gallon of gas for push mower and give me a quarter I’d bring bring him back a dime in change.
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Re: Gas Prices vs. Your Age.......
Mar 7, 2022, 5:01 PM
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Saw 4.09 on hwy 601 south of Concord NC an hour ago. Like several others, lowest price paid was .17 during the mid 60s. Small stores between Greer and Tigerville had gas wars 3 or 4 times during the 2 years I traveled that area to attend classes.
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All-Pro [682]
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13.9 cents / gal in a gas war in Fancy Gap, VA in 1968***
Mar 7, 2022, 5:42 PM
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All-TigerNet [5750]
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Gas prices under Trump were some of the cheapest...
Mar 7, 2022, 6:29 PM
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...since the early 70's if you adjust for inflation.
In Aug 2020 gas was $1.569/gal which would have been $0.40/gal in 1978 or $0.90 in 1994.
I remember $0.87/gal in the early 1990's which would compare to $0.20/gal in 1966.
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Tiger Spirit [9539]
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Yeah but he made mean tweets and his skin looks orange.***
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Legend [6785]
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Re: Gas Prices vs. Your Age.......
Mar 7, 2022, 8:20 PM
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During the gas wars .24, they pumped it, and you got a free candy bar with a minimum purchase. If everyone tossed in some change Saturday night, you could put gas back in dads car so you could borrow it again next weekend. Several times I asked for $1.00 worth.
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Orange Blooded [2519]
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Re: Gas Prices vs. Your Age.......
Mar 7, 2022, 8:28 PM
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My first fill up was 39cent
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110%er [6166]
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@72, I’ve seen the ‘price of’ gasoline rise Steadily, BUT
Mar 7, 2022, 8:46 PM
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I also realize that generally, the actual cost (adjusted for inflation) of a gallon of gas has remained pretty constant throughout this 72 years. The current situation is an anomaly.
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Clemson Icon [26748]
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Thinking about 19 cents a gallon in the Rock Hill
Mar 8, 2022, 4:34 AM
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area.
During military service in Europe after Clemson in late 1969, the natives were paying about four to five dollars a gallon (using the metric system,) which caused the U.S. military to subsidize the cost to service personnel via gas coupons down to about 30 cents a gallon. I had a Triumph Roadster, which got about 30-35 mpg, so the fuel costs were fairly cheap. The higher costs of gas in those days forced the Europeans to smaller, more fuel efficient cars, plus unlike us, they typically were very conservative in use with few young folks having cars.
We've largely IMO been spoiled over the years with reasonably low fuel prices; hence, the current outcry. I think the higher prices may be here for a while, forcing most of us to consider seriously our driving habits. Our nation failed during the OPEC oil embargo in the mid-seventies to take drastic steps to promote conservation, less dependence on foreign oil, mass transit and so forth.
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Oculus Spirit [41698]
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I remember .299
Mar 8, 2022, 6:53 AM
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they had an extra digit back then actually it was 29 9/10ths cents per gallon
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Mar 8, 2022, 7:06 AM
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As a newly wed we used to pay 14¢ in Rock Hill SC. We would always fill up before heading back to Greenville where we were having to pay 17-19¢ per gallon.
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Mar 8, 2022, 7:12 AM
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$.34/gal back in the late sixties/early seventies, not sure which. I was just a little kid, but remember seeing the sign very clearly. KAYO gas station, on 10 mile road near Hoover, in Warren, MI. I also remember my parents talking about 'it's an even day, I'm going to get gas' from the gas rationing of the oil embargo. Ah, great times!
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22.9***
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Game Changer [2016]
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Re: Gas Prices vs. Your Age.......
Mar 8, 2022, 7:25 AM
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I remember $.19 a gallon when I was young.
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Associate AD [1039]
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Ring of Honor [23156]
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I remember seeing 19.9 cents a gallon... can't remember the
Mar 8, 2022, 9:17 AM
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exact location, but an intersection in Greenville where there were 3 or 4 gas stations, like one on each corner. I'm guessing this was late 60's. These stations competed against each other, if one dropped a penny, the others did too. This was also during some sort of "gas war" as they called it...
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Letterman [295]
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23.9 cents when I was 16 in 1966
Mar 8, 2022, 9:50 AM
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Orange Blooded [3496]
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It was 90 cents a gallon before the first Iraq War..........
Mar 8, 2022, 9:51 AM
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I was a junior in high school and my father still paid for my gas. You couldn't put $20 in your tank. Now you can't get half a tank for $20.
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Re: Gas Prices vs. Your Age.......
Mar 8, 2022, 11:45 AM
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I remember being on a double date with my brother and our girlfriends. He complained when I put $2 of gas in our parents' car at $.45 per gallon. I also remember $.29 per gallon gas.
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