I think it was 1999 or 2000, please correct me if I'm wrong. If it's 1999, then I guess this forum belongs in the 90's one.

Gas prices have always gone up.  I started driving in the eighties and gas was less than $1 a gallon.  I am sure there are others here who can talk about prices before than and it was even cheaper.

Like getting really really high, and not just inflation-adjusted, probably like 2003, when Dumbass started the war in Iraq.

Prices have always done that as well.  I am sure in the seventies when they had the gas shortage it shot up high and not for inflation.

When I was a kid, gas was around 56c and even then people complained it was too high

When I was a kid, gas was around 56c and even then people complained it was too high


We had a guy in school who we nicknamed ".50 please". I can't really remember what gas cost when I was a kid something like .25 a gallon.
Of course all the cars were huge until the oil crisis in the 70s.
footnote cigarttes cost .46 a pack when I started smoking in 1970

Gas prices have always gone up.  I started driving in the eighties and gas was less than $1 a gallon.  I am sure there are others here who can talk about prices before than and it was even cheaper.


Agreed.  I started driving in 1988.  It was around a buck a gallon then.  Sometime in 1989-1990, it got as high as $1.50/gallon.  I lived in SC in 1992-1994 and it was under $1/gallon.  Then I moved to NC and remember it getting up around $1.35/gallon. 

2003-2004 is when I started to see it get above $2/gallon.  And $3/gallon after Hurricane Katrina.  Right now it's right at $3/gallon here but was as high as $4.60/gallon earlier in the year.

I remember when gas went below a dollar for a bit which was the lowest gas prices I saw in my lifetime, it was like late 98/early 99 bottomed out at like 80 cents a gallon that's probably around the cheapest gas ever was when you figure in inflation. Though typically when my parents bought gas in the '90s, I recall the prices being pretty stable in the $1.00-$1.20 range. It was in 2000 when it started going well above $1.00, though gas prices weren't that bad until around 2004 which is when I believe they went over $2.00/gallon the first time (around here at least). Gas was like in the 1.40-1.70ish range in the early '00s, which is still very cheap compared to today's gas prices. It's weird how gas prices sank all the way back down to about $1.80 (from $4.00) when the economy crashed in 2008, of course by now they've settled back to where they were before the crash.  ::)

I think in the early 2000's.

I think in the early 2000's.
Yeah like 2001 or 2002 maybe.

Brian, I remember filling my tank up at the beach in 1999 for like $.75/gallon.  I can't believe it was that low.  I wonder why it went so low?  Those were the days!

Brian, I remember filling my tank up at the beach in 1999 for like $.75/gallon.  I can't believe it was that low.  I wonder why it went so low?  Those were the days!
Well 1 thing is China and India didn't have a thriving auto sector back in the late 90's sales wise as they do now.

Yeah like 2001 or 2002 maybe.


I remember when gas prices were $2.00 a gallon.

I remember when gas prices were $2.00 a gallon.

As early as 1999/2000, is when they first reached that level. And I thought it was too much then!

Right now, I wouldn't mind seeing that price for gas, since it seems very low compared to what it costs now!

Yeah like 2001 or 2002 maybe.

I also remember around that time it dipped back below a dollar a gallon, but that was short-lived when they began climbing again in January of '02.

I also remember around that time it dipped back below a dollar a gallon, but that was short-lived when they began climbing again in January of '02.
Oh yeah gas prices did dip alot after 9/11. I forgot about that.

I wish we could bring back 80 cent/gallon gas...but that's probably not happening.  :-\\

As early as 1999/2000, is when they first reached that level. And I thought it was too much then!

Right now, I wouldn't mind seeing that price for gas, since it seems very low compared to what it costs now!


Oh yeah you're in California, it's usually more expensive there. How much is gas there now?  Here it's about $3.60... I was in Europe in 2007 it was like the equivalent of $7.00 a gallon, but a lot of people drive little cars and scooters (no SUVS!) there.

Gas prices were deceptively low from the early 1980s until about 2000.  The North Sea Oil glut made prices for a dollar-and-change per gallon profitable for oil companies.  After 2000 prices hovered in the high one dollar per gallon to low two dollar per gallon range creeping upwards a little at a time.

The first dramatic spike in the past decade occurred after Hurricane Katrina in late summer of 2005.  How much Katrina really interrupted the gasoline supply is debatable.  What is certain is prices jumped from the low to mid two dollar range on August 28 to the mid three dollar range on August 31.  Gas prices have fluctuated since then but never returned to the pre-Katrina rates. 

The highest I remember gas prices climbing was in the summer of 2008.  Prices cracked the four dollar per gallon level in Massachusetts, where prices were relatively cheap.  Elsewhere in the country such as in California and Hawaii gas prices rose to over five dollars per gallon. 

I filled up today here in Massachusetts for $3.69/gal.  I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
:o

Oh yeah you're in California, it's usually more expensive there. How much is gas there now?  Here it's about $3.60... I was in Europe in 2007 it was like the equivalent of $7.00 a gallon, but a lot of people drive little cars and scooters (no SUVS!) there.

Anywhere from $3.60 to $4 at the stations nearest me.

I wish we could bring back 80 cent/gallon gas...but that's probably not happening.  :-\\


That was probably in the late 70's. ???

I wish there was free gas.

I wish there was free gas.


Don't we all. Don't we all.  8)

It's 3.67 per gallon if you're filling for Regular in Lincoln, Nebraska.

I hope it keeps going down until it gets down to $2 a gallon!

I wish there was free gas.

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OH...MY........GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!  >:(

Anyway, gas prices have seen little fluctuation over the past 20 years, with pricing remaining about the same, around $1.20 a gallon.  We are very lucky to see this.

You can track about 5 years worth of gas prices in this thread




The highest I remember gas prices climbing was in the summer of 2008.  Prices cracked the four dollar per gallon level in Massachusetts, where prices were relatively cheap.  Elsewhere in the country such as in California and Hawaii gas prices rose to over five dollars per gallon. 



In Connecticut we paid just over $5 at that time.  Though that was in a small town and the station was just off the highway

It's 3.67 per gallon if you're filling for Regular in Lincoln, Nebraska.

About the same in California. The Costco gasoline prices are the lowest, at least I've seen.




I hope it keeps going down until it gets down to $2 a gallon!

I'd actually love to see prices in that range too!

About the same in California. The Costco gasoline prices are the lowest, at least I've seen.

I'd actually love to see prices in that range too!


I remember around 2001 or 2002 when $2 a gallon seemed ALOT, now it seems nothing compared to the current price or the prices during the summer of 2008!

I remember around 2001 or 2002 when $2 a gallon seemed ALOT, now it seems nothing compared to the current price or the prices during the summer of 2008!

You got that right!

Once in the summer of 2008 I saw full serve prices at over five bucks a gallon. Of course, full serve prices are always too much more than self serve.

You can track about 5 years worth of gas prices in this thread



In Connecticut we paid just over $5 at that time.  Though that was in a small town and the station was just off the highway
I went on vacation a couple of weeks ago in Connecticut(Stamford and Norwalk) and paid 28.00$(4.07$ a gallon) to fill up the car in Stamford. Of course I was on a quarter of tank when I filled up the car though.

Don't we all. Don't we all.  8)


Then we wouldn't have to pay out of our pockets.

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an old vintage gas price sign.

I wish there was free gas.

Don't we all. Don't we all.  8)


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No, we all do not.

Don't we all. Don't we all.  8)


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No, we all do not.

;D

Don't we all. Don't we all.  8)


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No, we all do not.


Now that's free gas. ;D

In the UK petrol is a bit over $9 a gallon (though that could be UK gallons which are different to US gallons!)

Of this over 60% goes to the government in taxes

In the UK petrol is a bit over $9 a gallon (though that could be UK gallons which are different to US gallons!)

Of this over 60% goes to the government in taxes


That's terrible.  :-\\

Don't we all. Don't we all.  8)


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No, we all do not.


http://www.guzer.com/pictures/get_gas_sign.jpg

In the UK petrol is a bit over $9 a gallon (though that could be UK gallons which are different to US gallons!)

Of this over 60% goes to the government in taxes


I wouldn't mind if petrol/gas was $9 a gallon if it was practical to take the bus or the train, but in 95% of America, it isn't, even in my area where we have a relatively comprehensive mass transit system because there are lots of colleges around here.

http://www.guzer.com/pictures/get_gas_sign.jpg



what kind of gas?  :D

I think it was 1999 or 2000, please correct me if I'm wrong. If it's 1999, then I guess this forum belongs in the 90's one.


The current spike in prices began in 2005 with Hurricane Katrina.  Katrina showed investors that people could handle $3 gas, so they have been trying to push higher and higher ever since then.

The current spike in prices began in 2005 with Hurricane Katrina.  Katrina showed investors that people could handle $3 gas, so they have been trying to push higher and higher ever since then.


Oh yeah, by the mid-00s it started to hit $3 a gallon!

The current spike in prices began in 2005 with Hurricane Katrina.  Katrina showed investors that people could handle $3 gas, so they have been trying to push higher and higher ever since then.


Oh yeah, by the mid-00s it started to hit $3 a gallon!

I remember that. Even before Hurricane Katrina it began to climb toward that level!