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.
***..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.
“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!