Just bought $1.94 / gallon gas

[grest Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close grest]

$1.88 yesterday in Tennessee

[Carolinian Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Carolinian]

I was talking to my son who is 27 about this. He has been driving for 10 years, and he told me he has never seen a gas price whose first number is "1".

I remember when many gas pumps did not have a dollars column on the price per gallon. When I was in high school and my first university years, regular (still with lead) gas sold in North Carolina for 32 cents a gallon. Sometimes you would find a gas war with cheaper prices. I remember one summer driving to the beach through Pageland, South Carolina there was a gas war going on and prices were half of that.

When the Arab Oil Embargo forced prices up, and they went over a dollar, gas stations had to convert their pumps to add a dollars column on the price. Some pumps could not be converted and those stations metered gas by the half gallon to stay under a dollar. One near my campus tried to do it by liters but the market was wary of foreign measurements and that only lasted a few weeks before they went to half gallons, too.

[shaggy Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close shaggy]

In Yellowstone & Grand Teton it was between 2.79 & 2.99 In the beartooth pass area it was 3.30 I was happy to pay under $3.00 At home today I saw it at $1.98 !! shaggy

[mpumilia Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close mpumilia]

$2.19 here in the Hudson Valley, NY-Quick Check in New Windsor.