Remember when you could put $5 of gas in your car and get by for a week?

[Left Is Write]

I do.

The first winter I had my first car, gas was around 80 cents a gallon.

[benburch]

1. I still can.

I have a Prius.

[sbj405]

3. No Prius, but I can also go a week on $5 worth of gas.

I walk/take Metro to work. I get about 28-32 mpg which is plenty for errands and such.

[neuvocat]

2. There are alternatives.

I forget who is doing it but they're getting used vegetable oil to drive their car around.

[tammywammy]

18. Biodiesel

http://www.biodiesel.org/

You can use straight biodiesel, or mix it with regular diesel. Cannot be used in a gasoline car. It's the wave of the future.

[Mojambo]

4. When I started driving it was around $1.10

People were still bitching about breaking $1.00.

I'm pretty sure I'll be paying 3 before the summer is over.

[Bouncy Ball]

5. Either the summer of 97 or 98, gas was as low as 89 cents a gallon.

[Left Is Write]

8. In Texas, maybe...

:D

[Spider Jerusalem]

21. Here in Georgia it got down to SIXTY-THREE cents a gallon.

1998. Remember it well.

[Bouncy Ball]

24. WHOA.

That must have been it, 98.

It was off the hook. I could fill up my car AND top it off for about $10.

[Worst Username Ever]

6. Actually, no.

:-)

[StopTheMorans]

7. no, you are a relic of another time

[all.of.me]

9. when i was a teenager,

i put gas in my dad's car. it was 33 cents a gallon. i filled up for $3.30.

when i got home, he asked me how much the gas was. i told him 33 cents. he was FURIOUS! that was TOO EXPENSIVE! i look back on that these days and laugh.

but about the same time we laughed about bread being $3 a loaf some day! i used to be able to buy a loaf of bread, a stick of butter and a dozen eggs for less than a buck......

[Left Is Write]

13. In my single days, I could have eaten for a week

on one loaf of bread, a stick of butter and a dozen eggs. *sigh*

I also remember putting a dollar on the counter to buy cigarettes and getting change back.

[all.of.me]

15. i used to buy eggs, bread & butter with...

... the change i found on the floor of a restaurant/bar i cleaned in the mornings! i'd pick it up and go to the supermarket! haha i was in college. now i have two kids (11 & 15), and my grocery bill is my biggest expense (~$700/month)!

[qnr]

10. $5.00 lasts me more than a month, most months.

My transportation is a 50cc scooter, which I use year-round.

[ScreamingMeemie]

11. Sigh...I had a Renault Alliance, gas was 65 cents...I could go

anywhere. :hi:

[MuseRider]

12. I remember

28 cents per gallon and the stations would have price wars to bring it down. Ahhhhh.

[Mr. McD]

14. I remember 24 9/10 cents a gallon

when I was first driving.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

16. I remember riding with my grandparents when I was a child

and my grandfather refusing to patronize a certain gas station because it charge 26 cents a gallon. This was in about 1958 or so.

Even in the mid 1960s, my mother would drive into a station on her way home from grocery shopping and ask for a dollar's worth of gas.

We were all shocked in the early 1970s when it went up to 80 cents a gallon.

This was at a time when I was living on 300 dollars a month, so let's say it was comparable to $4 now.

Nowadays, I go four to six weeks without filling the tank, because I walk or ride the bus whenever possible.

[fluffernutter]

17. now you can get 2 lousy gallons for $5

:cry:

[tammywammy]

19. I started driving summer of '96

I remember it being 90 cents. When I graduated high school I think it was 95 cents. Ahh the days of filling up costing less than $15.

I miss those days. :cry:

Now I can't afford to drive to visit my grandpa. 5 1/2 hour trip, tank down, tank home. :cry: But I'm going to talk my parents into paying for the gas down and back so I can visit next month.

[Left Is Write]

22. Our annual road trip to Minnesota is going to cost a lot more this time.

Two years ago we paid an average of 1.60 for gas the whole trip. Now it will be a dollar or more over that.

We have to drive, though - I plan to stay a month and will need my car. We'll plan to stick close to my parents' house though, and enjoy things locally there. Last summer, I made two trips a week to the Twin Cities (about 150 miles roundtrip) while I was at my parents' house.

[tammywammy]

23. Yes, this is the worst part about higher and higher gas prices

It doesn't bother me on my weekly fill up. But it bothers me when gas prices have decided when I go to visit my grandpa. I would have normally gone down there during spring break and again the June/July, but this year no spring break, and I will make it next month or so.

[Hardrada]

20. I remember when diesel fuel was about 20 cents a gallon

and I had a diesel Mercedes (1960 180D).