When my family moved from Florida to Anchorage in 1962 gas prices were around 25 cents per gallon and in Anchorage in the four years I was there they got up to 45 cents per gallon and we thought that was outrageous. But when we returned to Florida in 1966 they were 20 cents or less per gallon. And because we still had capitalism when a new company came in there were gas wars to try to force out the interloper and I got gas as low as 12 cents per gallon. A dollar could get you gas for a week.