Sorry Folks, blundered memory on that one.
Roswell, you're absolutely correct, it made it over a gallon by the late 70's, faulty memory on my behalf. I spoke/wrote erroneously. 1000 Apologies.
http://www.randomuseless.info/gasprice/gasprice.html
I do remember it being under a dollar in the late 90's in NJ. My point was that no one knows what the future brings (and some of us don't remember when the past brought...doah!)....so the conjecture is largely academic. Unless of course we get some folks in the executive branch who really want to adjust things in U.S. policy, like they did in the late 70's. High gas prices, inflation, high interest rates, unemployment....