Although gasoline prices fluctuated and varied in different parts of the country, it was around 1970 when the median price for a gallon was 36 cents.
The average annual income of an American family in 1938 was $2116. The cost of a new house was about $3900 and gas was about ten cents per gallon.
Gas prices in 1980 averaged about 86 cents per liter. This was a very high price to pay back then.
As of June 2014, the price for gas in Toronto, Canada in US dollars is $1.26 per liter. The price per gallon would be equivalent to $4.76 USD.
The average petrol price in 1950 in UK was about $36 per gallon. However, the prices have kept fluctuating over the years but there has been a significant price of the same.
The Tonnage Act of 1789 was an act that levyed a 50 cents per ton tax on foreign ships entering American ports, 30 cents per ton on American built but foreigned owned ships, and 6 cents per ton on American ships.
That was 1979.
In the 60s.
18.4 cents per gallon for gas; 24.4 cents per gallon for diesel.
In the US, the one year where prices averaged close to 40 cents per gallon was 1973. That year, the average price per gallon was 39 cents, equal to about $1.91 per gallon in 2010.
Around 1976 gas prices in Massachusetts was 50 cents per gallon.
gas was 42.9 cents per gallon
In late 1978.
1998 to 1999
Around 30 cents per gallon.
67 cents per gallon.
85 Cents per gallon is cheaper, which is a rate of about 22.43 cents per liter.
12 cents per gallon which is $1.40 in todays money.