Not originally published in LIFE. Empty empty gasoline cans, reportedly used by SS troops to burn the bodies of Hitler and Eva Braun after their suicides in the bunker, Berlin, 1945.
Not originally published in LIFE. Empty empty gasoline cans, reportedly used by SS troops to burn the bodies of Hitler and Eva Braun after their suicides in the bunker, Berlin, 1945.
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A man pumps gas at a Chevron gas station in San Francisco, in this Aug. 7, 2012 file photo. The average price of regular gasoline jumped in California from $3.86 a gallon on Tuesday to $3.94 on Thursday, according to the website GasBuddy.com.
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The caption that accompanied this image when it appeared in LIFE: "Great refinery at Abadan produced high-octane gasoline that helped beat [WWII German Field marshall Erwin] Rommel. These are superfractionators, huge stills that boil off the separate components of petroleum. Biggest refinery in Middle East, Abadan has a capacity of 400,000 barrels a day, over three times that of the famous U.S. refinery at Baton Rouge, La. Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. employs 40,000 Iranians, many trained in its own Institute of Petroleum Technology. It has built its own city beside the old town. Iranian workers are usually honest and as industrious as heat permits."
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A man pumps gas into a Hummer SUV. Amid soaring gas prices throughout the nation, lawmakers are struggling to come up with ways to offer relief to drivers now paying over $3 a gallon.
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Gas prices approach $5.00 a gallon at a Shell Station Monday, Oct. 8, 2012 in Encinitas, Calif. Gas prices across California have risen dramatically in the past week.
Costco was one of the retailers that saw sales rise higher than expected in June. June is the second biggest shopping month of the year. (Larry Downing / Reuters)
Shoppers at Costco in Fairfax, Virginia, January 7, 2010. Costco Wholesale Corp on Thursday reported a better-than-expected nine percent rise in December sales at stores open at least a year, helped by an increase in gasoline prices and stronger foreign currencies. REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS)
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A sign advertises the price of a gallon of regular grade gasoline at $1.98 at a gas station in Collingswood, N.J.
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An American corporal stacks cans of gasoline in preparation for the upcoming invasion of France, Stratford-upon-Avon, England, May 1944.
Paul Sakuma / AP
High gas prices posted at a Shell gas station outside of Yosemite National Park in Yosemite, Calif.
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Gas prices below $2.00/gal. are posted at a Marathon station in Brownsburg, Ind.
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Gas prices rose an average of 23 cents per gallon over the last month
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Gas prices at Tom's Shell in Madison, Wis., get out of hand
Shannon Stapleton / Reuters
Gasoline prices are seen at the Lukoil gas station in South Plainfield, N.J., Sept. 12, 2012.
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YPF gasoline tanks in the Argentine town of Río Gallegos, around 2,500 km southwest of Buenos Aires, on Oct. 23, 2011
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A man bikes past signs of gasoline prices displayed at a gas station in Oakland, Calif., on Feb. 21, 2012
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Californians are frustrated with gas prices that have spiked above $4 per gallon, but few admit to price shopping or changing their driving habits
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An Iranian pumps gasoline into his motorbike at a gas station north of Tehran
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High gas prices are shown in front of a gas station in Portola Valley, Calif
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Gasoline prices have risen over the two-dollar mark in San Francisco
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A man pumps gasoline into his car at a Chevron filling station in San Francisco, California.
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Sinatra offers a light in Davis' crowded Golden Boy dressing room in 1964. "It was six a.m. before the party got to Frank's suite. But the evening was not over because Frank hadn't said it was over. 'Everybody have a little more gasoline,' he ordered. Everybody did." —From "The Private World and Thoughts of Frank Sinatra," LIFE's classic photo-essay on the superstar, published in April 23, 1965
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Greg Miller fills his Toyota Prius with gasoline in Colonie, N.Y.
Facing stiffer fuel-economy requirements and finicky consumers, carmakers roll out a wave of new models that combine the advantages of electric and gasoline...
As temperatures — and gas prices — continue to rise, more commuters are hopping onto bicycles, especially in the U.S., where May is celebrated as National Bike...
