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Old 11-24-2021, 12:34 PM
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While stationed at Goodfellow AFB in TX in the fall of 1973, my grandfather passed away.

Filled up with premium in San Angelo, TX for $.279. By the time I got to MN to attend the funeral (24 hours later) the price of regular was double that.

Next assignment was Germany - where we got our gas in liters for a whole lot more.

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Remember back in the old days along with the cheap gas you got your windshield washed, your tires and fluids checked by the guy pumping your gas.

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Old 11-24-2021, 01:10 PM
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1972 Senior year HS in El Paso. Gas in the 20-25 cent range, one time there was a drop briefly to 18 cents. Remember filling GF's old VW bug with couple bucks quarters. Then gas crunch hit..........

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Fuel generally went over a buck a gallon in the '79 - '80 timeframe, depending on where in the country you were in.
I was working at an Amoco station then. The old style pumps we had wouldn't register $1.00 a gallon, so if gas was $1.02, we had to set the pumps for .51 a half gallon.

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Old 11-24-2021, 07:33 PM
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Fuel generally went over a buck a gallon in the '79 - '80 timeframe, depending on where in the country you were in. The second "oil shock" aka the Iranian "revolution". Certainly helped the former California actor win the WH.
The corn lobby was apparently pushing ethanol, even back then. Same as today's crappy fuel?? I don't know, was just a fifteen year old kid then.
We are close to the same age. Remember filling up Dads new pickup with regular leaded in Dec of '77. '78 two tone Silverado Big10 short wide only a 16 gal tank, 47.9 cents a gallon. Small Bell gas station a few blocks west of downtown El Reno OK on Sunset. Cheapest fuel I ever paid for in a vehicle! Fast fwd a year, early winter of '78 am a Sr in HS. Reg & unlead fuel was $1.25- 1.30 a gal. At that time, Cyril, Cushing, Wynnewood, Ponca, & Tulsa OK all had active oil refineries. Have bought multiple parts cars out of Cyril, Cushing, & Ponca. Cyril & Wynnewod both lost a bunch of population over the years.

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My first "real" job was at a Gulf gas station. I was 13-14 and had to get a "Work Permit" from school to work there during part of the day when most were in school. Gas was typically in the mid 30 cent range for regular. But right down the street was our "arch enemy", Vince's ARCO. He and the owner of the Gulf station hated each other and would do almost anything to steal business from each other and generally annoy each other. So the gas wars were always part of the plan. I remember regular dipping just under 20 cents a gallon during the peak of the gas wars. I imagine they were actually losing money at that price but you "had to win the war". This was right before the first Arab oil embargo when gas suddenly shot up to 60-70 cents a gallon and then way beyond. Our gas pumps would only go to 99.9 cents a gallon at the time so eventually, the pumps were replaced.

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Old 11-24-2021, 09:30 PM
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Gasohol? In a 70? Interesting.....
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70 with side exhaust...interesting.
That is a 72 GTO
- at least judging by the quarter panel GTO decal and the side splitter exhaust tips.



The old AMC Gremlin commercial had a woman pulling into a full service gas station.
She asked for $1.00 worth of gas.
Attendant smirkedly says "a whole dollars worth ?"
She says "on second thought - make it just a gallon"
Sometime in the 71 or 72 timeframe.

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Old 11-24-2021, 10:05 PM
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I remember my parents pulling into gas stations all the time and getting $1.00 or $2.00 worth of gas. They would never fill the tank. At $.30 per gal, you got 3-6 gallons. I think about that now and still don't understand it. I not sure I have ever gone to a gas station without filling the tank. You still spend the same amount on gas.

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Gulf commercial from the late 1960s: "Mister, could I have another 25 cents' worth of Good Gulf?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02cUPyx2dcw

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Old 11-25-2021, 09:48 AM
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After reading some of the posts from others in the time frame I was in high school, realize how good our fuel prices were at the time.

The year I was graduated from high school, there was a price increase; memory isn't real good but seems the most expensive premium went to 18 cents/gallon; before that 14~16 cents.

Regular from a name brand station, ranged from 12~14 cents.

There was a cut-rate station one town away that had 9.9 cent; but my Dad suggested it was "watered down", and not to buy it. I never did.

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Old 11-25-2021, 10:49 AM
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According to the records I got with my '65 GTO, the original owner, on the cars maiden voyage in 1965 from Elmira NY to Logan Utah, used 152.20 gal. of gas, with a cost of $58.25! The cheapest cost I see is $0.33, which I assume was for premium. Dale

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Not that long ago...

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Lead AND Ethanol.... yup..

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Old 11-25-2021, 12:29 PM
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Question OK, let's see who's REALLY old...

Does anyone remember when the pumps only went to 49.9, and they had to mark on the pumps "Per HALF gallon" when the price went up?

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Sure gas was cheap compared to now but what was your income? My first job was $1.50/hr. That didn't leave a whole lot of cash to fill the tank so there were a lot of "a dollars worth" to get from day to day.

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Old 11-25-2021, 02:19 PM
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Amoco was always "lead free" but recommended to use a leaded gas every third tank.

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Had my first real job working at Border Motors Exxon on the Maine /New Brunswick line in 77 pumping diesel and gas. When I left in 79 the price of regular was 74.9 per gallon. A lot of Canadians filled up there and with beer from across the street. Was funny to watch how and where they hid their beer in the darndest places.

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One of my favorite commercials as a kid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQITm3cS8Zk

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdJubUNZ3ps

1979 gas lines.

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They were no longer in daily use, but when I was a kid in north central Missouri, the station down the street still had the old visible pumps. They were still functional, and were used a couple of times when I was a kid when the town lost electricity. Wish I had a picture to prove it, but memory says 6 cents.

For those too young to remember, these had a hand crank pump, and one pumped the volume one wanted into the top of the pump (the glass had graduations), and then the gasoline would gravity flow into ones vehicle. I may have a picture in some of the old school yearbooks, as the owner always would be one of the yearbook sponsors.

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I remember summer 1966 my dad filling up his pinging and knocking 1963 Olds Dynamic 88 with Sunoco 260 at 38.9 per gallon and complaining to my mom " $8.00 to fill this car up is ridiculous " Regular gas at the time was 27.9 to 29.9 cents. That's when he bought a 1967 Catalina with the 265 horse regular fuel engine,which later became my first car. That car started my Pontiac obsession.

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