A Gas Price subject

[SHERIFF]

Driving Miss Daisy is playing on HBO right now. In one scene they stop to fill up with gasoline at a Reece Service Center. They're driving a 1959 Cadillac perhaps? 4 door black.

What was the price of gasoline back in 1959? Anybody here old enough to recall? :confused:

[BruteForce]

Retail Motor Gasoline and On-Highway Diesel Fuel Prices, 1949-2002 (http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/aer/txt/ptb0522.html)

looks to have been about $0.27 a gallon. Check out the "Real" column adjusted to 1996 dollars.

[SHERIFF]

Excellent information!

Thank You much!

I was thinking about 25 cents a gallon as I composed the subject.

:banana:

[Ross]

Yeah, my best memory was about a quarter.

[Redster]

Yeah, my best memory was about a quarter.

about a quarter is right IMHO. I remember seeing "gas wars" where it was down to 19 cents.

[valkyrie]

Driving Miss Daisy is playing on HBO right now. In one scene they stop to fill up with gasoline at a Reece Service Center. They're driving a 1959 Cadillac perhaps? 4 door black.

What was the price of gasoline back in 1959? Anybody here old enough to recall? :confused:


I wasn't even a twinkle in my daddys eye in "59".

[Bluerauder]

Retail Motor Gasoline and On-Highway Diesel Fuel Prices, 1949-2002 (http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/aer/txt/ptb0522.html)

looks to have been about $0.27 a gallon. Check out the "Real" column adjusted to 1996 dollars.
Should be $0.31 in 1959 according to the chart. That also included window wash, oil check, and free bubble gum for the kiddies (my favorite part at the time).


As far as 1996 dollars, I haven't had any of those left for a long time.

Notice how erratic the prices become after 1979 and the Oil Crisis. They are all over the chart -- up, down, and around. Aahhhhh ! The magic, smoke and mirrors of gasoline prices.

[rumble]

about a quarter is right IMHO. I remember seeing "gas wars" where it was down to 19 cents.

Yeah I remember it varied from about .28 to .36 normally but gas wars
dove it down once to .18 where I lived at the time.

Gas war? Man, that is something outa the past.
You gotta remember, Eisenhower was still president then.
Gary.

[rayjay]

I was a little to young to drive in 59, 4yrs old. I remember when I started driving in 71 that gas was $0.31 a gallon give or take a penny. It dropped here to under $2 for regular today. 0.10 drop in one day, have never seen this before. Maybe achmed and crew are starting to get the message.... Whats the price of gas today :uzi: .... I think I still have a t shirt around from 73 that read " Nuke their A$$, Take the gas!

[SHERIFF]

I started driving in 1969, 16 years old. I just don't recall gas being so cheap. I am sure it probably was, but I used my father's credit card and never cared how much it cost. Back then we had Esso, Shell and Gulf credits cards. Haven't seen stations called that for decades! :)

[Donny Carlson]

I started driving in 1969, 16 years old. I just don't recall gas being so cheap. I am sure it probably was, but I used my father's credit card and never cared how much it cost. Back then we had Esso, Shell and Gulf credits cards. Haven't seen stations called that for decades! :)
When I was 16, I didn't use any credit card. The nearest gas station (we lived on a rural route) had charge customers. You signed a reciept and they sent a bill once a month. I remember getting yelled at once because the bill was $30!

One road trip into southern Illinois I filled up my car for $0.15 a gallon. Never paid that low a price again.

[Donny Carlson]

I started driving in 1969, 16 years old. I just don't recall gas being so cheap. I am sure it probably was, but I used my father's credit card and never cared how much it cost. Back then we had Esso, Shell and Gulf credits cards. Haven't seen stations called that for decades! :)When I was 16, I didn't use any credit card. The nearest gas station (we lived on a rural route) had charge customers. You signed a reciept and they sent a bill once a month. I remember getting yelled at once because the bill was $30!

One road trip into southern Illinois I filled up my car for $0.25 a gallon. Never paid that low a price again.

[Bluerauder]

I started driving in 1969, 16 years old. I just don't recall gas being so cheap. I am sure it probably was, but I used my father's credit card and never cared how much it cost. Back then we had Esso, Shell and Gulf credits cards. Haven't seen stations called that for decades! :)
I remember getting $2.00 worth and driving all night.

[Redster]

I remember getting $2.00 worth and driving all night.

Yeah, when I pumped gas in the sixities we had a formula. Buy $1.00 and you got nothing. $2.00 got your windshield washed. Fillup got front and back washed and oil checked. We never, ever, checked the radiator unless you begged. I thought the owner was weird because he put in a frig and started selling pop and milk along with the gas.

[BruteForce]

... I thought the owner was weird because he put in a frig and started selling pop and milk along with the gas.

Groceries at a gas station?!? That'll never catch on. :rolleyes:

[SHERIFF]

Groceries at a gas station?!? That'll never catch on. :rolleyes:

Yeah! That would be as stupid as putting a McDonalds or Burger King within a large new gas station. :)