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Title: The lowest gas price you remember ?
Post by: Kansas kymco on September 12, 2021, 05:40:52 PM
Growing up in El Dorado KS they had gas wars to compete for business.  The lowest gas price I remember was 11.9 cents a gallon.  3 cents of that was tax. That would be 3.17 cents a liter .

What's the lowest price you remember?
Title: Re: The lowest gas price you remember ?
Post by: randyo on September 12, 2021, 07:15:55 PM
our local lowest prices were 27.9¢.gal   but I remember lower prices on trips down south that were between 15¢ and 20¢
Title: Re: The lowest gas price you remember ?
Post by: Stig / Major Tom on September 12, 2021, 07:44:54 PM
Never owned, or gassed a car until I filled up our '69 VW Bus for $.32 a gallon first day home from Vietnam  (the war, for you kids....not a holiday)
Only owned Honda motorcycles before that - and bike owners don't pay attention to gas prices😊

In 2020 I  filled up for about $.25 a gallon with my dollar-off grocery card.
Stig
Title: Re: The lowest gas price you remember ?
Post by: de dee on September 13, 2021, 06:24:47 AM
I remember back in 1937 &38  I use to pump the gas into the glass tank on top, of pump handle  gas was  $. .10   a gallon,.  some people worked all day for 10 cents
Title: Re: The lowest gas price you remember ?
Post by: Neil955i on September 13, 2021, 07:15:56 AM
Here in the UK, the equivalent of 7.3p per litre (33p per UK gallon) and it’s currently £1.36 per litre!  Mind you, i can recall when it was 4 $ to the £...
Title: Re: The lowest gas price you remember ?
Post by: Ruffus on September 13, 2021, 09:31:47 AM
Gas, gas, gas,
the never ending story. Here in Italy gas and diesel were always expensive. Don't remember that long back, but in the eighties we had to buy coupons which you had to show at your gas station, those guys, particularely in south tweaked off a certain sum for "service" from this amount. Right now we pay for one litre diesel €1,49 - €1,57 and gas up to €1,75.
Didn't reduce road traffic at all, but our governments are every day eager to tell us humble citizens how bad we are to drive cars, motorcycles, and pay those high taxes to enable their €€€€€ salaries.
Title: Re: The lowest gas price you remember ?
Post by: Kansas kymco on September 13, 2021, 02:09:04 PM
Rufus all goverments are that way,  never met a tax they didn't like.
Title: Re: The lowest gas price you remember ?
Post by: Kansas kymco on September 13, 2021, 02:13:25 PM
I remember back in 1937 &38  I use to pump the gas into the glass tank on top, of pump handle  gas was  $. .10   a gallon,.  some people worked all day for 10 cents
Dad use to tell me in his model T Ford they use to start it on gasoline and then when it was running switch to Kerosene.  Gasoline was. 10 cents  a gallon  and Kerosene was 5 cents a gallon. 
Title: Re: The lowest gas price you remember ?
Post by: Iahawk on September 13, 2021, 05:57:02 PM
this got me thinking about comparing inflation adjusted gas prices..1998..inflation adjusted to $1.61..
Title: Re: The lowest gas price you remember ?
Post by: boo on September 13, 2021, 07:20:51 PM
27.9 c a gal. About 1969 if I remember correctly.
Two or three years before that time I bought my first car. It was a 1954 Volkswagon Beetle. A service guy brought it over from Germany somehow. I heard they did not start importing them into the US until 1955. I stopped at a service station and put in some gas. Probably about $2 worth. Drove off and my little car started smoking like a freight train. Thought I had a broke ring. Turns out I had accidently pumped diesel into my tank. It ran ok and I finally ran it out.
I was making 80 cents an hour in those days (1966), at an Esso station.
Ha.
Title: Re: The lowest gas price you remember ?
Post by: Kansas kymco on September 14, 2021, 05:10:53 AM
Here in the UK, the equivalent of 7.3p per litre (33p per UK gallon) and it’s currently £1.36 per litre!  Mind you, i can recall when it was 4 $ to the £...
At 4$ a liter I can't imagine filling up my Excursion it has a 44 gallon tank or 166 liters.  That would be 464 dollars.

Neil did GB ever sell gasoline by the imperial gallon such as Canada?
Title: Re: The lowest gas price you remember ?
Post by: Kansas kymco on September 14, 2021, 08:49:41 PM
this got me thinking about comparing inflation adjusted gas prices..1998..inflation adjusted to $1.61..
Keep in mind the government makes  more per gallon of fuel in taxes then the refiner does.
Title: Re: The lowest gas price you remember ?
Post by: Neil955i on September 15, 2021, 09:11:55 AM
At 4$ a liter I can't imagine filling up my Excursion it has a 44 gallon tank or 166 liters.  That would be 464 dollars.

Neil did GB ever sell gasoline by the imperial gallon such as Canada?

Sure did KK and only switched to litres relatively recently, i.e. on 30 September 1995!  So now we have the daft situation where fuel is metric while distance & speed still measured imperially at miles & mph respectively!  (It's even more convoluted in Eire!)
Title: Re: The lowest gas price you remember ?
Post by: Neil955i on September 15, 2021, 09:15:43 AM
At 4$ a liter I can't imagine filling up my Excursion it has a 44 gallon tank or 166 liters.  That would be 464 dollars.

Neil did GB ever sell gasoline by the imperial gallon such as Canada?

Think you may have misread that KK, our current per litre price in USD is $1.83  So, only $303.78 to fill your Excursion - Bargain!
Title: Re: The lowest gas price you remember ?
Post by: Kansas kymco on September 15, 2021, 11:42:24 AM
Think you may have misread that KK, our current per litre price in USD is $1.83  So, only $303.78 to fill your Excursion - Bargain!
Now I feel better knowing it's only $300. LOL 

The highest price I've paid was around $4.00 USD a gallon so a fill-up would run me $150.  We're about $3.00 USD right now.

I remember my Aunt Betty in Canada she always used F instead of C for temp.  I also remember when Canada  went from a Union Jack to the Maple leaf flag.  When my Aunt passed at 96 years old the mayor came to the funeral in his 64 Pontiac.  The speedometer was in mph instead of km.

I wish the US would go to the metric system to be compatible with the rest of the World.  They tried in the sixties but was met with opposition.

Now we have  mishmash  of Metric and SAE so you need two sets of tools. 
Title: Re: The lowest gas price you remember ?
Post by: Neil955i on September 15, 2021, 02:12:52 PM
At least all our modern equipment is in mm now KK, but older vehicles may still need AF spanners or, in some cases, Whitworth!  (My old toolbox still has some Whitworth open-ended spanners.  Useful sometimes to hammer onto corroded metric nuts  ;))  Did you ever come across those sizes?
Title: Re: The lowest gas price you remember ?
Post by: Kansas kymco on September 15, 2021, 02:20:49 PM
At least all our modern equipment is in mm now KK, but older vehicles may still need AF spanners or, in some cases, Whitworth!  (My old toolbox still has some Whitworth open-ended spanners.  Useful sometimes to hammer onto corroded metric nuts  ;))  Did you ever come across those sizes?
No first I've heard of Whitworth.  Like you said modern vehicles are metric.  It was the changeover where you had a combination of metric and SAE.
Title: Re: The lowest gas price you remember ?
Post by: Neil955i on September 15, 2021, 02:26:52 PM
No first I've heard of Whitworth.  Like you said modern vehicles are metric.  It was the changeover where you had a combination of metric and SAE.

Google tells me:   

"When did Whitworth stop being used?
Whitworth and BSF officially became obsolete in 1948 following an agreement between the UK, US, and Canada to standardise on the American UNC and UNF fasteners for future use."
So it's official, my spanners are museum pieces!
Title: Re: The lowest gas price you remember ?
Post by: mrmike on September 18, 2021, 11:56:46 PM
Growing up my dad had a Sunoco gas station. I started working there at age 16 (1960). Cheapest I remember was 5 gallons for a buck (regular).