Not sure what year or town this is from, but the cops end up crashing the person they are chasing into a pump and the pump at the Exxon explodes. Must be mid-late 90's. Regular is $1.20
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And look at the prices over the years at this gas station located at the Seabrook Plaza (Ames):
Best is watching Die Hard, which if from 1988.
74 cents!
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Amazing, I remember paying well over $4 a gallon in Providence a few years back.
Yikes here in NH the cheapest around here is 3.05
from Siteride.com
Middletown, NJ
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From flickr user stateshirt
55 cent gas at the Gibbs station in the Knightville section of South Portland, ME circa 1975:
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Gibbs still has three locations in Maine and 20 in New England overall. They were a much larger player in petroleum retailing back in the day; for a time the stations were called BPGibbs (reflecting their then-alliance with British Petroleum.) Gibbs now carries unbranded fuel. Note the Chevron sign in the far background to the left; Chevron left the region in the mid-80s.
'88 was a great year! I had just got my license & regular leaded at the Amoco was 79 cents!