I can remember as a child in 1970, riding with my mother in her 1969 4-door Chevy Impala. She would pull up to the gas pump, a gas station attendant would come to her window and she would say, "give me a dollar's worth of regular". That would get her about a half of a tank of gas. The price was between $ .17 per gallon and $ .35 per gallon. If I'm not mistaken, those prices with inflation adjusted for today's dollars, prices today would be just over $3.00 per gallon.

Does anyone remember way back in 1974 when there were gasoline shortages where some would sit in a line between 1 and 5 miles long just to be able to get a few gallons of gas? Gasoline was being rationed due to the shortages. When I started driving in 1978, I remember paying $ .55 per gallon.