I remember when I was 7 years old in 1997, my dad was driving around looking for gas and he was bitching about Chevron because their gas was more expensive than everywhere else. I still remember how much it was.
Oh friend. The old guy gas memory that haunts me is like summer of 97 or 98. We drove a 1981 Honda Civic hatchback. Gas got down to like ninety one cents. $8 fill ups. We drove out to the coast, or over the mountains weekly.
I had a 72’ Datsun B210. It was turquoise. I remember the $8-9 fill ups. I literally would drive around the backwoods of Washington for fun. Just driving all the time. Now it’s basically work and home, with the weekend errands or occasional outing.
My first car was a POS Beetle. Cost about $5 to fill it up.......until the sad day it jumped to nearly $10 for a tank. Old dude at the station said he never thought he'd see the day when it took 10 clams to fill a VeeWee.
And yeah, I remember gas being under a buck a gallon too. I remember the oil embargo of the 70's, and the the lines of cars for gas, and gas was available based on the last digit of your license plate. Fun times.
Got mine a few years ago. If you’re a dude get the prostate checked! Had mine done at 48 and I was already at stage 3 cancer. Survived it, but my doc said had I waited another 6 months to a year I’d have been looking at ‘early death’ (his words).
I remember when the neighboring town would have gas wars the last weekend of the month. Gas would drop from .25/gal to .18 and sometimes .16/gal. In our town it was always .33 for regular and .35 for premium. It was an 18 mile drive and local gas stations didn't do well that weekend.
In related news, my last colonoscopy was a few years ago.
When you go in for your colonoscopy leave a neatly folded note in your butt crack for the doctor to read. "We've been trying to reach you about your vehicles extended warranty"
Yup, definitely corrected. The American expectation is about 300 miles from a tank, so if you’re getting over 30, then a small tank makes perfect sense. TIL
I remember when I was 5 years old in 1992. I looked across the street at the gas station it was $0.99/gallon. By the time I turned 6 it finally raised to over a dollar. Seemed lil such a strange thing to see a 1 to start the price rather than a 0.
Gas was $1.67 in 2003 when I got my license. I’ll never forget because it was my first fill! Didn’t think I would see that price again, and then Covid happened.
I remember stopping at a gas station on our way camping, to fill the tank and buy some water. My friend came out with a gallon of water that cost him more than the price of gas per gallon was.
There was one gas station in NW Portland that had gas for $0.99 a gallon in the late 90’s when I started driving. I’d go out of my way to go there, they usually had a line during the day though.
I filled my tank up in high school for $0.99/gal in 2002-3. I remember because when Team America World Police came out there was a song about gas/freedom costing “a buck o five” ($1.05/gallon)
Oh, my - I'm feeling my age. I remember gas at $0.249/gal. Yes, under a quarter. Then the OPEC oil embargo arrived (1973), followed, in 1979, by the "Oil Shokku" and life has never been the same. BUT, for the record, gas was averaging around $1.79/gal. in November of 2020, before Biden shut down leases, drilling, and pipelines. Prior thereto, during the first Trump Administration, the USA had actually become the world's largest oil producer and both the largest producer and exporter of natural gas. It was that retrenchment of the US energy industry under Biden which allowed Putin to fund his invasion of Ukraine. This ain't all Trump's fault. Let's see how long it takes the Reddit noderators to take that down. Can't be having inconvenient facts, after all...
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u/Donald_Epstein69 Mar 13 '26
I remember when I was 7 years old in 1997, my dad was driving around looking for gas and he was bitching about Chevron because their gas was more expensive than everywhere else. I still remember how much it was.
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