Gas/oil Embargo stories? I think many of us remember that time period.

[ProfessorGAC]

5. I Had Just Started Driving

I don't, however, remember 3 gallons for a buck. I remember gas being low 50s per gallon.
About three years later, when gas went over $1, the pumps didn't have the prices beyond 99.9 cents.
So, they changed a gear in the pump to read HALF-GALLONS.
Then the price would be $0.549 per, but that was really $1.098/gallon.
It was a year or 2 later when they started to put in the pumps with the gas discharge displays, and it went back to per gallon.