Current Events > Are you old enough to remember sub-dollar gas prices?

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I bought that shit

Could you even remember anything if you were born before 1980?

Does .999 count as sub dollar?

I'm cheating because I'm Canadian. I remember my mom running around in the mid 90s shopping for 53 cents a litre fuel.

In MN and ND, yeah, a lot.

We used to drive around all day on $5 of gas, slow as fuck... but still.

Alucard188 posted...

I'm cheating because I'm Canadian. I remember my mom running around in the mid 90s shopping for 53 cents a litre fuel.

Isn't that like $2.12 or so a gallon

yup. gas was $0.99/gal and smokes were $2/pack

No, as a kid, I didn't pay enough attention to gas prices to remember them. But apparently, even Los Angeles had gas under $1 in my lifetime. That's crazy to me.

Can't say I can ever remember seeing sub-dollar as a kid in the 90's but I'm in NYC so there might not have even been sub-dollar prices then.

Lowest price I remember ever seeing was maybe $0.87 in the late 80's.

I specifically remember seeing gas for .98 for only one day at a gas station I used to work at. That was like 2001 or so

Never saw it hit below a dollar after that day

Im sure it was below that plenty of times before that in years prior but thats the only instance I remember

wackyteen posted...

Isn't that like $2.12 or so a gallon

It was never a clear 1:1 conversion. The nice thing about living in a border city was going to the US for a day to shop and get "cheap" fuel.

I remember when I could fill my first car from empty for $15.

These days I don't even like driving unless it's necessary. It feels like a waste of money.

Kind of? I don't remember any specific prices but I vividly remember being in the back seat when my normally mild-mannered (in public, at least) dad went ballistic when he saw the $1/gallon sign at the pump. Still smile when I pass that station.

Mr. "Never Make a Scene in Public (or it's your ass)" made quite a scene.

wackyteen posted...

Hmm?

around what yr was this?

It was 85 cents a gallon here in April 2020

I'm old but I never drove but I think I remember gas being like I dunno. A dollar and some change and the folks being like paying for gas sucks or something.

The lowest I remember is $1.17, circa early or mid 90s

Here in California you need to go back to '79 before you start seeing sub dollar gas and I was born in '83.

I don't distinctly remember seeing it on the signs, but looking up historical prices for Alaska shows that the average price stayed below $1 (and usually well below) from 1991 through 1999, and I was born in '89.

I'm old enough to have bought gas for less than a dollar a few times back in the 90s, even as low as 89.9 cents.

It is (shamefully) one of the reasons William Clinton is among my favorite U.S. presidents of all time. That and we had a surplus. Not a national debt, a surplus.

When I was working and driving in high school it was normally around $1.10 in 1993 and 1994 when I was a junior and senior but would often dip to $.99 or even $.95. I was driving a little 4 cylinder car you could fill up completely from empty for like $12.

Roachmeat posted...

It is (shamefully) one of the reasons William Clinton is among my favorite U.S. presidents of all time. That and we had a surplus. Not a national debt, a surplus.

how much did he personally have to do with that though?

Billy Clinton was probably one of the last good presidents. Like in the USA of course things were marginalized but I dunno you could just put on Conan O'Brien and Clinton's dumb face would show up in a skit and he'd talk about smoking pot and not inhaling or the scandal involving Monica Lewinsky.

Just seemed like things were more care free back then.

I remember paying 39 cents a gallon. I'm 70. Lol

GranTurismo posted...

how much did he personally have to do with that though?

Exactly why I said 'shamelessly'. Back as a youth, I'll admit that I wasn't as savvy with politics as I try to keep up with these days.

I still have one of those Biden "I did that" stickers I tore off of a gas pump (in rage), but back in Clinton's era I probably would have been one of the people putting them on.

I don't know, I never paid any attention to gas prices until I was actually driving

Wayyyyyy before my time

Roachmeat posted...

Exactly why I said 'shamelessly'. Back as a youth, I'll admit that I wasn't as savvy with politics as I try to keep up with these days.

I still have one of those Biden "I did that" stickers I tore off of a gas pump (in rage), but back in Clinton's era I probably would have been one of the people putting them on.

why did you tear off the biden stickers?

Yeah, I remember 2020.

Yeah I remember it being around 90 cents a gallon when I was young

Do all of you not remember the beginning of the pandemic?

I live in the north east USA for perspective and gas price got near or at 5 dollars at times. The cheapest I remember them being though I don't care about this shit anymore is like 2 something. I haven't seen below 2 dollars gas prices since the turn of the millenium.

I'm 32 so of course it was less than a dollar when I was a kid, but I don't remember it. I didn't pay attention to it until I started driving, and I never wanted to drive so I waited until I was 18 and I had to for college.

GranTurismo posted...

why did you tear off the biden stickers?

Mad because (those) stickers could have been enough to sink an election these days, especially when you kept hearing about Biden being even in the polls (or below in some of the swing states).

It ain't just about Biden. There are minorities here trying not to be rounded up and treated like the marginalized over there on that 'strip'.

GZAgenius posted...

Do all of you not remember the beginning of the pandemic?

I'm not sure gas ever dropped below even $2 where I was

It was a ghost town around here but I did not verify gas prices, I am quite sure they were at least two something. It was just fun crossing roads without even looking essentially hehe and yea buying some beer or helping out the local food business trying to stay open.

nope. never really paid attention to gas prices as a kid. even as an adult i have no clue what they were when i started driving. something in the $1 range. $1.27 is what sticks out in my mind so i'll say that's the lowest i remember.

95 cent on post in 1997

87 cents here in '95.

The year I got my license (Summer 1995), gas ranged from .95 to 1.10.

Thanks, Clinton.

the earliest i can remember seeing this when i was 9 in missouri, which would have been 1994. i remember thinking whoa gas is 80 cents? so it must have been over a dollar in cali.

Friends,

I was born in 63, so I graduated HS in 81. I remember gas under a dollar.
and I had a 125 CC motorcycle, so it used like just a DROP of gas.

in the 70's we had a oil crisis, and people were lining up and pushing there cars.
back then they said " it would take 50 years" to get off of foreign oil.

well guess what, its been almost 50 years, and we made very little progress.

about 2 years ago, I had a big V8 truck, and gas got to 5 bucks a gallon, that was
a real eye opener.

$.83 once when I was a kid is the lowest I remember.

I always remember it as being a little over a dollar at least.