Posted on 12/28/2022 3:40:33 PM PST by DallasBiff
Half a century ago, a series of oil crises caused widespread panic and led to profound shifts in U.S. culture
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Welcome to the party you enviromental bitches.
Forever changed the nation?
Actually, no. What a broad overstatement
Half a century ago, a series of oil crises caused widespread panic and led to profound shifts in U.S. culture
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Something tells me Livia is a little millennial chick who has been force-fed an educational diet of propaganda all her life. She has no clue what she’s talking about.
Panic?
No. Just anger.
Then Nixon showed what a moron he was by slapping us with the idiotic 55 mph limit nation wide.
Which morphed from “we’re just doing it to save gas” to “it’s for safety” so they could inflict it on us for longer.
Only time I remember being really desperate I was up in Detroit on a Sunday (from my hometown of Cleveland). All the stations were closed but I was able to get a partial fill on the Ohio Turnpike and make it home for work Monday.
One of my work mates was a 6-4 /270lb guy who impulsively traded his Buick Electra 225 for a Chevy Vega and instantly regretted it.
Half a century ago, a series of oil crises caused widespread panic and led to profound shifts in U.S. culture
No no no!
It is resultantations of a stolen election and the catastropical repercusioning that thus resulted from the stupidity installed and foisted upon us.
Riding high in April
Shot down in November 2020
That’s due some recompense.
***..slapping us with the idiotic 55 mph limit nation wide.***
I still remember that! I got my first highway speed ticket not long after it took place.
I-40 was not complete between towns but around them. Every cop in Tucumcari NM was out on the interstate pulling over speeders.
Where we lived, Tulsa OK, and later in Farmington NM, when the Arab Oil Embargo was in place still had plenty of gas. No lines, but the price had not quite doubled. Regular, which was 25 cents now cost 40 cents. Ethyl, which was 35 was over fifty cents.
We bought several 5 gal gas cans to take with us on trips, just in case.
All the fights in gas lines seemed to occur on the West Coast.
The article was written in crayon and editing approved by a 3rd grader...
I just remember it being a huge inconvenience. Panic? Heck no.
At the time, it was popular to say a location was "freeway minutes" away on the assumption of an average 60 MPH (1 mile per minute). The 55 MPH limit certainly goobered up that practice.
So.... those “shortages”... for those who were around then, we remember (or should) were the product of what?
(Hint: there are some parallels to today)
No panic
We had FUN in the lines … waiting on our gas
“Then Nixon showed what a moron he was by slapping us with the idiotic 55 mph limit nation wide.”
Nixon also proposed a ban on outdoor Christmas lighting.
Until that year, almost every house was decorated with Christmas lights.
Not as idiotic as Carter’s odd–even days.
(People with license plates ending in an odd number could only purchase gas on odd numbered days; people with license plates ending in an even number could only purchase gas on even numbered days. Unsurprisingly, this did not reduce gas consumption at all; it just incentivized people to buy extra gas on the days they could so that they would not run out on the other days).
The 55 mph speed limit is what brought us the CB radio craze. Those were the days!
Breaker one nine good buddy....
I remember those long lines, but never any panic..
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