What was the first gas price?

Believe it or not gasoline was insanely expensive in the early days of the automobile. 11 cents a gallon back in 1916. Remember many hard working people earned only 10 cents an hour back then.

Go! Just keep; going never

Never stopping for a rest,

All the day I keep on dodging,

Bill collectors with a zest.

Summer clothes we wore all winter,

Now 'tis spring, they're nearly through;

Once I paid my life insurance,

Now it's more than I can do.

Little ones are nearly barefoot,

Pantry shelves are empty now.

I have chopped wood all winter,

Before this year I knew not how.

Ne'er before in my existence,

Had the tank on my machine

Ever starved, and froze my family,

Keeping 'er filled with gasoline.