Least dollar amount of gas purchased for car or truck

[sweettractors]

Since 1960, what is the least dollar amount you had put in your car or truck? I was 16 and had run out in my car and coasted into a local filling station. I told the attendant, that I was broke until the next day and he let me have 25 cents worth (1 gal) on credit until the next day. During my high school days in the early sixties, I put a lot of 50 cents worth of gas in my car. $2 or $3 dollars worth and I was set for all week. Today, I can't believe the numbers these pumps are reading out. $40-$50 is about normal for a fill up for me. Ken Sweet

 

[johnrex62]

I have not been filling my own tank as long as you Ken, but my least has been $0.75 which was almost a half gallon. Just enough to get to the next station which I knew was $0.20 a gallon cheaper.

 

[beenthere]

$0.199, fuel oil was $0.15
but a quart of oil was $0.50

 

[sweettractors]

$0.199, fuel oil was $0.15
but a quart of oil was $0.50

I bet that 50 cent oil was priced installed. Right? Ken Sweet

 

[Ken_CT]

I can remember many times getting $1 worth of gas, which was over 3 gallons. It doesn't seem that long ago when the gas stations had to get new pumps because they would only go as high as 99.9 cents per gallon.

 

[jinman]

Not for a car or truck, but I've spent less than $0.50 filling my motorcycle or buying gas for my lawnmower when it was selling for around $0.20 per gallon. I can't remember ever putting less than $1 worth in my car, and I sure can remember having $5 in my pocket and buying gas, going to a movie, and having a burger with my girlfriend afterwards with over $1 left in my pocket when I got home. Make no mistake though. I'm living a lot better now than I ever did then. My daily driver car gets over 30 mpg and costs me around $25 to fill up. A couple of years ago, I paid over $120 to fill the tank on my Dodge Cummins diesel pickup.:shocked: I suspect many have paid more for fillups than that in their daily drivers. Truckers must feel like they have liquid gold in their saddle tanks.

 

[beenthere]

I bet that 50 cent oil was priced installed. Right? Ken Sweet

Either way, but usually we would put it in the car. Not any cheaper if the customer wanted to walk with it.

And a good wage for common labor was $1 an hour. Maybe equivalent to $12 an hour now. So $3 gas now isn't too far off what it was at $0.25 a gallon then. Guess gas is still cheap.

 

[DennisH]

$1.00 @ $0.49.9 when I started driving. I remember gas being $0.19.9 when mom was refueling the 4 door maverick back in the 70-71 gas wars

 

[scgargoyle]

Not really. I started driving in 1971. Gas was $.30, and minimum wage was $1.65. Gas has roughly doubled since then, compared to minimum wage. I think if you go back further, though, gas in total hasn't gone up that much.

 

[EarPlug]

According to InflationData.com the inflation adjusted cost of gas since 1918 is $2.39 in 2010 dolars.

At a 2010 average $2.73 we are on the expensive side.