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How Much did Gas Cost When You Started Driving?

Old Dec 25, 2010 | 10:36 AM
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Hmm.... It was around $2.50 or so I believe. But we got gas a Krogers, and we'd get 50 cents off a gallon each fill up, so I was very lucky, especially once gas hit the $4 mark!

I still remember getting gas with my grandpa about 15 years ago, and it was 96 cents.
Old Dec 25, 2010 | 10:36 AM
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I remember .25 for "white" gas...had to run across the street for mower gas.....first drive was around .35....remember working for 1.75 hr and recieved $300 month in the military..times were good!! .15 beer and .50 smokes...a slightly used 68 camaro SS with a 302/4 spd was 2995.00
Old Dec 25, 2010 | 11:14 AM
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The year was 1967 - 43 years ago. Gas was 33 cents a gallon.....
Old Dec 25, 2010 | 11:20 AM
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Gas was .35 cents a gallon and it cost 3.50 to fill my car. Back then I made 1.oo an hour.
Old Dec 25, 2010 | 12:48 PM
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Back in 1967 or so, gas sold for about 28.9 cents for regular (Kendall Poly)and 31.9 for premium (Kendall DeLux). I worked at the local Kendall station. Best years and memories of my life.
Old Dec 25, 2010 | 01:18 PM
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I started driving 1963 and gas was $0.299 a gallon or there abouts. I was stationed in California in the early 70s and there would be gas wars. The gas on the base got down to $0.259/gallon.

I remember driving stopping in Elko, Nevada in 1970 and gas was about $0.529 and I left the station and continued on to Reno where gas was back in the $0.35 or so. On my way from Ca to NY in 1972, high test was running $0.37-0.43/gallon.. The 66 Pontiac I had (389 ci, 2bbl) ran on hi test which was around 100 octane or the car would ping like a champ.
The car was getting 17-18 mpg..not too bad in those days.
Old Dec 25, 2010 | 02:40 PM
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Gas

I think it was about 29 cents a gallon in 1963.
Old Dec 25, 2010 | 03:19 PM
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Price of gas

WHen I started driving in the early 50s at the age of 9 or 10 gas was 18 to 22 cents a gallon. WHen I became legal??? about 30 cents.
Old Dec 25, 2010 | 04:07 PM
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$.24 in southern Arizona in a small town the middle of nowhere. From age 14 to 16 I had scooters and a moped and would go around town to the three stations and drain the hoses after they closed and have enought to run the week.
Old Dec 25, 2010 | 10:29 PM
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Regular Sunoco was about .24 cents per gal, back when I started (legally) driving. Bout 1970.
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