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What were gas prices when you first started driving?

When I got my first driver's license in 1994, gas was $1.15. If we adjust that for inflation, it would be $2.26 in 2022 dollars.
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cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
I got it for 75 cents one time at a gas station up in Oklahoma City, usually it was in the 80’s for gas for awhile when it got low. Bill Clinton was doing town hall meetings and one man got up and asked him why the price of gasoline was so high. He said he was paying about 1.30 a gallon. Clinton said that was a good question and he would look into it. The U.S. started dropping bombs on Iraq and the price of petroleum would fall. Seemed to be a pattern of it. They dropped so many bombs they would end up filling the shel with concrete and drop them on buildings there. I don’t know what the pretense was at the time for doing it but gas would go down every time it happened. Seemed like an act of war to me.
@cherokeepatti Oh , yeah, the Gulf War. I remember observing the reports on World News Tonight with Peter Jennings (RIP).
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@latinbutterfly This was way before the Gulf War….Clinton was dropping bombs on Iraq before that. Targeted areas. Every time the price of petroleum would drop