Originally Posted by
kebosabi
Back when I was a kid, gas was around $1.29 per gallon for premium. Filling up Honda Accord could be done well under $20.

$1.29. *sigh* Those were the days. I can remember filling up my Ford Thunderbird in the 1990s for $14 in OK, where the highest octane we had for some reason was 92 and it was 96 cents a gallon! (It hit $1.01 or so before I left.) I bought an Accord in 1999, moved to Saudi Arabia (my parents took the car) and I remember moving back to the US in 2003 and being horrified when I saw gas at $1.53 in the States! I can still remember that exact price for some reason and the gas station I saw it at. The price creep in the US hadn't fazed me when all I was doing was visiting once a year or so.
I just am old enough to remember "regular" and "unleaded". We had a 1977 Datsun pickup that was the last car we had that took regular. I can remember Mom putting three and four dollars worth of gas in it, even though I don't remember how much it was.