How much was gas when you started driving?

Question

well when i was 17 (back in 2000) gas was $1.12 how about you?

Answer 1

$.199.  Now I started driving when I was 14 in 1965!!

Answer 2

19 cents a gallon,22 cents a gallon for hi-test. Motor oil was 25 cents a quart. Gone are those days. All we had stick shift on the column. Am I old? or what.

Answer 3

I live in Canada so we pay by the litre.  When I started driving I was 16 and gas prices were approximately 50 cents/litre.  Now I'm 25 and it's around $1.30/litre.  Insane!!  I am still driving the same car I got when I was 17 and it used to cost me $19 to fill my tank up - now it costs $45-50!!!

Answer 4

I started driving in 2000 and I remember gas being 99cents a gallon.  Man...

Answer 5

I know that back then when I had first started driving that the average motor bike gas tank filled up for about 2bucks and ppl use to put 50cents in and drive many miles on that. I use to pump gas and I can recall the average vehicle buying 5 to 15 bucks worth of gas max.

When I was a kid I can recall it being 50cents to fill up the motor bike and it wasn't something ppl ever really complained very much about at all but now a days the gas prices have gone through the roof and the explanations that we're getting for it are out right ridicalicous.

I can recall way back in the late 80's that the powers at be were checking into the crazy gas prices, then nothing until several yrs later and again they said the same thing and they've been doing so for over 30 yrs now and saying the same thing once every 10yrs lol.

One excuse and myth you hear is that the world has a raw crude shortage and they've been saying from that in 10 yrs we'd be out of the worlds raw crude supplies.What is so crazy and funny about this is the same ppl keep repeating and reporting this every 10 yrs or so lol and weve been hearing this for over 30 yrs now already.

No idea how they can even suggest that excuse or logic bec really the oil wells that have been turned off in the world or never tapped have tons more crude then the resources we are using now.Plus Canada alone has made a few major raw crude discoveries and one of them wasn't very long ago and was the largest crude discovery yet.

That brings us to another issue why doesn't the western world start processing crude and producing gas enough to supply ourselves and not worry about buying it from other sources.Hmm the panic that it would start within the oil producers and investers would cause the whole pricing to drop instantly.

Again another topic lol but really if we started to take care of our own needs better and used our smarts we'd not need to be addicts that these sort of big rich foreign oil companies have on their list of gas addicts and prey on to become even more rich then anyone really needs to be.

Yes I think that's how they got us first supplied us with gas and at fair prices then keep selling us the vehicles that require gas as fuels then keep upping the price the more we bought and they literally created their own addicts lol



Anyways thats just my opinion and I hope that helps and best of luck.By the way here in Canada before the holiday wkend kicked in last wk it was down to 1.23 a lite or about 5.23 a gal.Prices are suspected to drop once the holiday is over with so by a couple of days it will drop again bec it went up to 1.34 a litre again.In fact prices were to drop further then 1.23 a litre when the holiday was about to kick into play and just bec they can and do raise prices on wkends and long wkends up it went so hoping it falls below 1.20 a litre soon.

Update right now lowest price in the big city of Toront is 1.23.9 a lite so it's almost gone back to the price I saw last monday, hoping it will drop more bec long wkend is almost over.

Answer 6

It was around $1 here in NY. I also started driving around 2000.