The cost of gas the year you started driving

[George K]

Inflation-adjusted prices:

https://www.al.com/news/2022/03/the-cost-of-gasoline-the-year-you-started-driving.html

1966

Absolute gas price: $0.34

Inflation-adjusted price: $2.86 (#41 most expensive year in 85-year span)

Least expensive year?

1998

Absolute gas price: $1.06

Inflation-adjusted price: $1.78 (#1 least expensive year in 85-year span)

Most expensive year?

2012

Absolute gas price: $3.64

Inflation-adjusted price: $4.33 (#1 most expensive year in 85-year span)

[jon-nyc]

1984

Absolute gas price: $1.21

Inflation-adjusted price: $3.18 (#18 most expensive year in 85-year span)

[Larry]

I don't remember what the price was when I stared driving, but I can remember gas wars and 12 cents a gallon gas.

For those who have never heard of a gas war, it's when competing gas stations in a given area try to beat the other guy's price and they end up in a "war", sometimes selling gas for less than they paid for it as a way to beat the other guy.

[Jolly]

While working for $1/hr at the Lion station, I pumped many gallons in the mid-forty cent range...

[LuFins Dad]

@Larry said in The cost of gas the year you started driving:

I don't remember what the price was when I stared driving, but I can remember gas wars and 12 cents a gallon gas.

For those who have never heard of a gas war, it's when competing gas stations in a given area try to beat the other guy's price and they end up in a "war", sometimes selling gas for less than they paid for it as a way to beat the other guy.

I always figured you could remember World Wars, not Gas Wars when you started driving...

[Larry]

@LuFins-Dad said in The cost of gas the year you started driving:

@Larry said in The cost of gas the year you started driving:

I don't remember what the price was when I stared driving, but I can remember gas wars and 12 cents a gallon gas.

For those who have never heard of a gas war, it's when competing gas stations in a given area try to beat the other guy's price and they end up in a "war", sometimes selling gas for less than they paid for it as a way to beat the other guy.

I always figured you could remember World Wars, not Gas Wars when you started driving...