Nostalgia.....what did petrol cost when you first bought it?

[gareth.e]

I remember the 70p days and was buying in the late 70/early 80ps afaik

[WorAl]

I would love to see the litres increasing faster than the pounds again, do you think we'll ever see those days again?

[caziques]

WorAl said:

I would love to see the litres increasing faster than the pounds again, do you think we'll ever see those days again?

Very funny, not a hope in hell of fossil fuel petrol ever being less than a pound a litre in the UK again.

On a different note, I had my only proper job in the early eighties (you know, where an employer puts money into your bank account each week) - a work colleague was so skint he put 50p of petrol into his Dolomite 1850 - and could predict within a few hundred yards when he would run out.
Fuel light was on permanently.

[AJS-]

I'm pretty sure it was 49.9 when I passed my test, November 1995. I can remember one petrol station then still having gallon signs up and that was about 2:50.

In 1998 I bought petrol in Florida for $1 a gallon. What does it cost there now?

[Hudson]

86p for unleaded. theres a photo kicking about failbook of my car infront of the price board. quite depressing really

[nevgroom]

Dennis99 said:

1978 76.5p per gallon.

Had to look it up though.

http://www.theaa.com/public_affairs/reports/Petrol...

That was about the same with me - I do remember when the prices hit £1.00 a gallon and the pumps wouldn't cope with the extra digit...........

[stuckmojo]

I used to buy pre-mixed for my souped-up vespa in Italy in 1990 (i was 13 then) for 1,300 lira per litre. (45 pence)

[Carl_Spackler]

About 42p/ltr in 1994, cost me £25 to fill up.

Cut to 2011 and my E91 3 series cost £82 to fill yesterday.

[Matt UK]

About 47p/ltr in March 1994

[Pannywagon]

56.9p a litre.

And I thought it was expensive then!

[Evangelion]

About a year after I passed my test, and a couple of months after starting my first job, I told my parents i was buying a car.
My mother said, "You must be mad! I just read in the paper today that petrol's going to be 50p a gallon by Christmas!"

[tvrolet]

35p a gallon, so 50p filled up my Honda SS50 in '73
I also still have the ration book that was issued but never put in to action in '74 or thereabouts.

the tvrolet's one mile per litre on-track consumption is starting to look expensive now

[pilchardthecat]

£1.70 a gallon

[DrYazz]

WorAl said:

I would love to see the litres increasing faster than the pounds again, do you think we'll ever see those days again?

Nothing would please me more. Cannot see it happening though. Inflation only seems to go in one direction. The wrong direction.

[Allyc85]

It was around 75p a litre when I passed my test back in 2003

[Andrew_M]

56p/litre was my first petrol receipt in 1998

[Pork]

I vaugely remeber it being high 30p's a ltr, early 90's. I worked in a petrol station and I'm thinking 38p/ltr for diesel.

I vividly remember a bloke coming in an putting 100 ltrs in his 7 series and it coming to just under £50, and speculating what would cause the problem first - the pump cut out at 100ltrs or the car only being guaranteed for £50.

How times have changed.

[55allgold]

tvrolet said:

35p a gallon, so 50p filled up my Honda SS50 in '73

Yup - I remember that era (although I was a nipper struggling to carry a gallon can of paraffin for our heater).

I remember that the local petrol station had the price-per-gallon sign-written on its side wall.

[Evangelion]

I've still got my ration book too - looks like they just reprinted some left over from the war - it even says 'Light Car' on the cover.

Thanks for reminding me tvrolet, I'd forgotten that!

[ChrisnChris]

Too long ago to remember precisely but between 76 & 78 per gallon......about 17p per litre......happy days