The lowest gas price you remember ?

[Kansas kymco]

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?

[randyo]

our local lowest prices were 27.9¢.gal   but I remember lower prices on trips down south that were between 15¢ and 20¢

[Stig / Major Tom]

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

[de dee]

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

[Neil955i]

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 £...

[Ruffus]

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.

[Kansas kymco]

Rufus all goverments are that way,  never met a tax they didn't like.

[Kansas kymco]

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. 

[Iahawk]

this got me thinking about comparing inflation adjusted gas prices..1998..inflation adjusted to $1.61..

[boo]

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.

[Kansas kymco]

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?

[Kansas kymco]

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.

[Neil955i]

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!)

[Neil955i]

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!

[Kansas kymco]

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.