Gasoline prices have been relatively reasonable as of late, but it wasn’t long ago that Americans were trading in their H2 Hummers to avoid paying exorbitantly high gas prices, let alone waiting in line for hours at the pump in times of severe shortages. Most of the time, both the highs and the lows of gas prices are out of drivers’ hands. In the early months of of the COVID-19 pandemic, stay-at-home orders caused oil prices to crater as demand for oil bottomed out. To find out more about how has the price of gas changed throughout the years, Stacker ran the numbers on the cost of a gallon of gasoline for each of the last 84 years. Read on to explore the cost of gas over time and rediscover just how much a gallon was when you first started driving.

Source: Libya Today August 15, 2022 12:31 UTC