In 1980, the US national average for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline was very high for the times: $1.25 - the equivalent of about $3.31 per gallon in 2010.
There was no gas for automobiles 100 years ago
The gas price 10 years ago was about 2 dollars less than it is now. 10 years ago the gas price in America was about 2 dollars a gallon.
$1.119 in 1996.
15 cents a galloon
.20/gal.
$.12 p/gal
around 2.90 a gal. gas during the mid 90's was .99 cents a gal.
.23 per gal
About .18-.20/gal
The price of gasoline in June 2009 was $2.69/gal
10 cents per gal
In CA I remember it to have been about 1.50 a gal.