What was the lowest gas price in USA and Canada?

Question

im talking about the lowest gas price in usa and canad of history....that will never ever ever be the same....

Answer 1

I have bought it at $0.18 a gallon.

Answer 2

In the early 1900's

Answer 3

the lowest price i ever remember seeing was 16.9 cents a gallon, in the early '50s, in CT.

17.9,  18.9,  19.9  were fairly common at the time.

i've read about 13.9, and, if i remember correctly, even 9.9, although i'm not sure about the latter.

however, remember, wages, and everything else, were much lower then.

as i recall, in the 30s, bread was 10 cents a loaf.

my uncle for a while kept a list of what he bought, and how much he paid for it, in the 30s.

at first one might be jealous, until one thinks that many people worked for less than 50 cents an hour.

that puts a better perspective on things.

a far better measure would be, how many hours did one have to work to buy 10 gallons of gas.

and no, i've not seen that -- but i'd like to.

maybe i'll go look.

Answer 4

The lowest in my life time was in the early 1970s when there were gas wars and people waited literally hours in line to get gas for 20 cents a gallon.

Answer 5

regular leaded was .55 cents when I Started driving and that was in 1988