Old fart here: I remember when it was still leaded and cost 34¢ for hi test, and 32¢ for regular. But the prices in the picture really do look good. Of course, that mid-70s Nova prolly only got about 15 mpg!
If this is the US she got more miles per dollar from this fill than I am from my last fill of my smaller car despite decades of advances in fuel economy.
Back when you could work as a garbage man, buy a house, go on vacations and retire early with a fat pension.
And today my shitty rental apartment is half my income….
I remember driving cross country in 2000. Most gas was north of $1/gallon, but I remember stopping at an old, non-chain station in Oklahoma. Filled up my tank for 0.99/gallon. Last time I saw it below a dollar.
Yep and back than you could buy a 3000 sq ft home in a popular area for about $35,000.
Fact is, gas has NOT kept up with other indicators of inflation. (easy math, just slap a zero behind each of these numbers and figure out if you can get the same now)
Those were the good ol’ days before FJB ruined the economy and left poor Americans to die overseas. I long for those days, when girls filled up yer gas tank and weren’t hoors.
I remember collecting coins from my friends to put gas in the tank. But I also remember the shortage. You could only get gas on certain days, determined by your license plate.
And the minimum and typical wage back then was… $2/hr so it was 15 minutes work per gallon.
Versus today where I live it’s just under $10/hr so at $5/gal it’s a half hour’s work. (The minimum wage ought to have increased to at least $15 by now.)
PLEASE remember that everything is relative. Back in the 70s I was making $2.50 an hour so (assuming this picture is from that time) would mean that gas was 20% of my hourly rate. Today, gas is $4.40 in my town. If you are making $20 an hour… it is all relative. How many of you are making $20 an hour?
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My point is this … the price of gas is all relative …
When I first started driving I paid less than a dollar a gallon, I made $2.65 an hour, I lived in a shitty apartment in Long Beach CA and paid $120 a month, and for myself and the hubby we paid $30 a week for groceries. That was 1978
I bet it was like 35 cents in 1973 and people shit themselves when it hit 48 and where blaming the president. Things are sure different now.
Old fart here: I remember when it was still leaded and cost 34¢ for hi test, and 32¢ for regular. But the prices in the picture really do look good. Of course, that mid-70s Nova prolly only got about 15 mpg!
Pack of smokes was 30 cents
All shortly before things went to shit in Iran and gas shot up over $1 per gallon. Been climbing ever since.
Inflation puts it near $2.87 today. Back when a minimum wage job could buy you a house and support a family
When the girls and the cars liked it in the back
Australia?
Premium was just one cent more per gallon
What about diesel?
If this is the US she got more miles per dollar from this fill than I am from my last fill of my smaller car despite decades of advances in fuel economy.
If this gets reposted anymore it’s just going to be a grey blob.
Is the fuel tank at the back
You know how much rubbers used to cost back then? I dunno. We never bought ‘em!
Back when Joe Biden was in his 60’s……
Back when you could work as a garbage man, buy a house, go on vacations and retire early with a fat pension.
And today my shitty rental apartment is half my income….
I saw gas for $0.74 back in 1997.
I just paid $4.54/ gallon today
I wonder what the difference is now in real dollars per mile traveled between the most common cars of then vs now.
Ok, gas was like 1/10th today. How much was the car?
That could be me!
That’s $2.89 in 2022 bucks
I freaking loved flipping the license plate to fill the gas. Felt like a secret compartment when I was a kid.
That’s about $3.00/gallon in today’s dollars. Considering just paid over $6.00/gallon yesterday . . .
Her gas is about to go up just like ours did.
I remember driving cross country in 2000. Most gas was north of $1/gallon, but I remember stopping at an old, non-chain station in Oklahoma. Filled up my tank for 0.99/gallon. Last time I saw it below a dollar.
Yep and back than you could buy a 3000 sq ft home in a popular area for about $35,000.
Fact is, gas has NOT kept up with other indicators of inflation. (easy math, just slap a zero behind each of these numbers and figure out if you can get the same now)
That’s about $2.87 in today’s dollars, which was the price in 2021.
How many times is this going to be reposted?
Ironically motorists’ are not changing their driving habits., including me.
in 1997 it was only 75 cents.
I remember, I was pumping gas then.
I lived in north Texas. My second car was a 62 Oldsmobile, one of those giant land whales with a huge gas tank.
Gas was about 23 cents a gallon. If that thing ran out of gas as I pulled up to the pump, I could put get $5 worth of gas in it
Those were the good ol’ days before FJB ruined the economy and left poor Americans to die overseas. I long for those days, when girls filled up yer gas tank and weren’t hoors.
I remember collecting coins from my friends to put gas in the tank. But I also remember the shortage. You could only get gas on certain days, determined by your license plate.
I was curious so I looked this up a while ago, it is cheaper to drive per mile now than it was back then, even with the higher gas prices.
$48 a gallon!???
it seemed to jump quickly from 0.49^(9) to 0.99^(9) shortly thereafter in a matter of months to never return to this
Early/Mid-90’s I remember seeing gas for 39 cents a gallon in Oklahoma.
And the minimum and typical wage back then was… $2/hr so it was 15 minutes work per gallon.
Versus today where I live it’s just under $10/hr so at $5/gal it’s a half hour’s work. (The minimum wage ought to have increased to at least $15 by now.)
i recall as a kid riding on a family vacation from ohio to florida and having a contest to see who spotted the highest price for gas.
72^(9) won.
PLEASE remember that everything is relative. Back in the 70s I was making $2.50 an hour so (assuming this picture is from that time) would mean that gas was 20% of my hourly rate. Today, gas is $4.40 in my town. If you are making $20 an hour… it is all relative. How many of you are making $20 an hour?
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My point is this … the price of gas is all relative …
Today in California it is over $6/gallon.
Take a nice, deep breath of all that leaded gasoline!
Funny part is, if you adjust for inflation and how crappy gas mileage was back then, the cost of gas per mile has actually gone down since then.
Cars averaged under 14 mi/gallon. And 49 cents then is $2.87 today which works out to a little over 20 cents per gallon.
Today cars average 24/gallon and ever with $4.50 gas, that is marginally cheaper.
By the end of the 70’s, gas skyrocketed past a dollar a gallon which is more like $6 today and gas mileage wasn’t much better.
I too wish I could fill up by flipping down my license plate….
When I first started driving I paid less than a dollar a gallon, I made $2.65 an hour, I lived in a shitty apartment in Long Beach CA and paid $120 a month, and for myself and the hubby we paid $30 a week for groceries. That was 1978
Ah. The good old leaded gas days.
49 dollars? What a deal!