So what did gas cost when you got your driver's License ??

Oh my, let's just say I can remember gas being $.25 a gallon, when I started driving it was $1 or so.

I remember in the mid-late 90's when the gas station down the street from us was $.87... I think it was around $2 here when I got my license..a little over three years ago...but CA was about 40 or 50 cents more than most other places...

i guess i got my license in like 2003. I remember it being like $1.20-$1.30. not too bad.

I fixed my bike so I'm riding that for short trips (watch out butt!) and BF and I try to combine errands. How is anyone else saving on gas $?

Wow. I got my driver's license in '73. The movie "American Graffiti" had just hit the theatres. I had a cherry '66 Barracuda (it was later stolen) and spent every friday and saturday cruisin' the Renton loop with my friends. Saw a few streakers dashing in between the cars too!

This was right when the gas shortage hit. I remember gas was approx .25 to .30 cents per gallon, and then it started going up. You had to sit in line at the gas station to even get gas during the shortage. I was able to fill my tank for around $5.

Sigh...

sl2crmeg

I got my license in 2005, and I think gas was $2.50? Yeesh.

 

 How is anyone else saving on gas $?

The same way you are - trying to combine errands.  I've been needing my glasses tightened for quite awhile (there's nothing like leaning over to pick up poop and having your sunglasses slide off ) but that means driving to the nearest LensCrafters in Sacramento.  So I just waited and yesterday DS and DGS both had errands they had to run there, so we just  did everything at once. Gas prices really make me think now about whether I'm going someplace I need to go, or just want to go.

Joyce

When I got my DL, about 4 years ago (when I was 17) I thing gas was hovering around 2.50/gal.

I can not believe how it's shot up! It's already broken $4 here in central Cal. 

When I got my DL, about 4 years ago (when I was 17) I thing gas was hovering around 2.50/gal.

I can not believe how it's shot up! It's already broken $4 here in central Cal. 

I got my first license in 1980. Gas was around $1/gal in the D-FW area, here in Texas. Now, it's hovering around $3.70 and they expect it to be $4/gal by the end of summer. This will spell the end of buying trucks and suv's for a while. Look at the next dealership as you drive by. Rows and rows of trucks (around here) and not many small cars. People are buying the small cars.

As I have said before, we can turn our economy around by taking the next person that says we can't drill our own oil and treat them as a traitor to our country. If we produced our our own oil, the price would probably drop to about $2 to $2.50 / gal. The only reason it wouldn't drop lower is because the govt has added an excise tax to pay for ethanol subisidies. This ethanol craze will lead to inflation and already has led to increased food prices. All for a "green" fuel that will actually create more problems than it is supposed to solve. Why, you say? Politics and money, which has little to do with science and engineering.

Angelique

Wow. I got my driver's license in '73. The movie "American Graffiti" had just hit the theatres. I had a cherry '66 Barracuda (it was later stolen) and spent every friday and saturday cruisin' the Renton loop with my friends. Saw a few streakers dashing in between the cars too!

This was right when the gas shortage hit. I remember gas was approx .25 to .30 cents per gallon, and then it started going up. You had to sit in line at the gas station to even get gas during the shortage. I was able to fill my tank for around $5.

Sigh...

That's the year I got my license also. I only drove my dad's car which was a Chrysler New Yorker and probably got 8-10 miles a gallon. He'd let me borrow it as long as I brought it back with the same amount of gas as when I took it. At the end of the night, I'd ask my friends to chip in to fill it back up and I can clearly remember them all handing me coins not dollar bills and it was always enough. 

I smoked at the time too and I seem to remember that a pack of cigarettes cost the same as a gallon of gas.

fuzzy_dogs_mom

I can't remember the price per gallon, but I had a little Nash Metropolitan that racked up a ton of miles and it used to cost me about $8.00 a month for gas.  Not only that, but these were full service gas stations that checked your tires, all the fluids, washed your windows AND were usually giving away drinking glasses or dishes or some other goodies. The dishes I had when I got married were freebies from the local gas station

I have been sharing this thread with the hubs and he was on the floor when I read him about your Nash ...it seems in the 50's he had some big bad muscle car.... and his best buddy had a Nash Ambassador..... also a big car but slower and they would trade. I asked WHY would you , a teen and jock swap with a buddy who had a slower car???  Cause the front seat laid down and made into a full sized BED !!!   They used his car to race and his buddy's to "get Lucky" !! Sigh   served him right to have to raise 5 daughters and now 5 more grandaughters !!!

Bonita of Bwana

ROFLOL!

We used to back the cuda into the drive-in slot, put the back seats down and watch the movie through the rear window!

I saw the movie (X-rated, animated) "Fritz the Cat" in that car.

Bonita of Bwana

I have been sharing this thread with the hubs and he was on the floor when I read him about your Nash ...it seems in the 50's he had some big bad muscle car.... and his best buddy had a Nash Ambassador..... also a big car but slower and they would trade. I asked WHY would you , a teen and jock swap with a buddy who had a slower car???  Cause the front seat laid down and made into a full sized BED !!!   They used his car to race and his buddy's to "get Lucky" !! Sigh   served him right to have to raise 5 daughters and now 5 more grandaughters !!!

Bonita of Bwana

That's hysterical!!  I don't think the Metropolitan made into a bed.  It was basically just a two passenger car and even that was tight.  What looked a back seat for elves was actually a space into the trunk so the only way you could ride in the back was to sit backwards with your feet in the trunk.  Still .... my best friend and I used to be able to cram six sailors back there although we had to let five out at the bottom of steep hills and take them up one at a time.  One day I got caught in a tight parking spot and couldn't open either door.  I had to take my skirt off in the car, crawl into the back and let myself out through the trunk and get dressed again in the parking lot. OOH - I loved that little car!

Joyce

I got my license in 2002, and the gas was somewhere around $1.40. 

We used to think nothing of pulling in, and asking for, a dollar's worth of gas.  I got my license in 1963, and a gallon cost 31 cents.