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A gallon of gas in the 1960's cost the USA far less than a dollar. It was after the Yom Kippur War in 1973, and the OPEC embargo of the USA, after the USA helped Israel (which was attacked by Arab nations), that the price of gas went up and the cost for a gallon of gas was in many dollars.

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