Also based on license plate number to obtain some gas on either an Odd or Even day according to your plate.
Also based on license plate number to obtain some gas on either an Odd or Even day according to your plate.
Could you imagine if that happened in today, with 24 hour news and the internet?
It seems to me that, often, in difficult times, people are buoyed up by a vibrant music scene enhanced by rage and passion.
I’m waiting for music to not suck any more. So far, I am quite disappointed.
Carter ordered all the thermostats on base housing to be fixed to 55, so somebody came in, drilled a hole in the thermostat, and put a screw in place so it couldn’t be changed. As soon as he left, it was quite easy to undo. Typical government plan. As P.J. O’Rourke said, even if the government put a camera in every room in your house, at least half of them wouldn’t work.
Those years sucked.. Bigly. Looks like we’re in for a repeat under Old Sloppy Joe. *SPIT*
I joined the Army after High School. There were NO jobs, NO gas, and my parents couldn’t afford to help me with college expenses as they were treading water with a 22% Mortgage! Gak!
So, I guess in a way Carter did me a favor. He’s still living off of my Taxpayer Dime, so he’s gotten his pound of flesh out of me, for sure. Jerk.
I wasn’t born until 1979, so I only heard about those lines for the gas station. Biden will have us repeating those long lines, only the gas will be $4-$5 per gallon.
We also had the double Daylight Savings Time (fall back 2 hours)...*Lasted one year.
This in a country that was swimming in oil; Trump made us an oil exporting nation.
Ha! I forgot about that. The fake gas shortage. Of all the crazy stuff the Dems have done in my lifetime the gas lines in Miami were the worst experience. It was torture.
Remember the “sweater speech?”
On April 18, 1977, President Jimmy Carter made a televised speech to the nation on the subject of the energy crisis. Hoping to appear informal and recall Franklin D. Roosevelt‘s radio addresses that became known as “fireside chats,” the president sat in an armchair beside a fireplace where a small fire burned. Mr. Carter wore a cardigan sweater, suggesting that to conserve fuel he had turned down the thermostat in the White House.
“In laying out his proposed national energy policy, Carter did not call for reducing taxes on or regulation of the energy industry to incentivize increases in production. Instead, he prioritized “conservation.”
Here in NJ we recently had our gas tax increase $.09 per gallon because PEOPLE WERE USING LESS (due to the lockdown). They had budgeted $x into the budget, and weren’t reaching it with so many commuters no longer driving - so they upped the tax on those forced to drive.
Ridiculous...what a message to send.
Memories of good times and gas lines with Carter who never met a communist he didn’t like.
I have a vintage unused bumper sticker that says, “President Carter...KISS MY GAS!” That was probably as coarse as one would get on a bumper sticker back then. (That and “If this Van’s Rocking Don’t Come Knocking!”) I remember the Plains Wonder Boy asking everyone to turn their thermostats down at night, but 55 seems lower than I can recall.
I wasn’t born yet.
Can someone tell me why there was a gas shortage in the ‘70s?
At that time I was delivering subs and pizzas and drove my VW beetle. Got $3.00/night for fuel, needle went from E to 3/4 tank, had a half tank left end of night. What a great deal, plus pay, tips and free food and soda all night! Huge subs, inch of meat and cheese plus veggies & dressing! Priced at $2 for a footlong! Those were the days, they’d even make a roast beef sub for mom along with mine to go, no extra charge!
I worked with a guy, a Baptist of the very legalistic type, who set his thermostat back to 55 all the time.
His wife and two little kids were at home in the freezing cold all day, and the kids ended up getting sick and he still wouldn’t turn the heat up, while he was in his nice, warm office all day for work.
My family did drop the thermostat a few degrees, which was really no hardship. My parents kept the house way too warm.
I doubt it’ll get that bad. But we need to pay $5.00 per gas for a while. See how Americans like it. We tend to be hypocrite when it comes to this kind of stuff. We said we want green energy. But we aren’t willing to make sacrifices and of course, we prefer cheap and plentiful energy.
Whatever happened to Carters “battery bank” to have 20% of energy coming from solar power?
I remember, but the lines did not bother us. We could still keep gas at home because my dad farmed alittle. Remember when they outlawed keeping gas at home?
I was only 14, but I remember President Cardigan’s term very well. Even a kid could recognize how hapless he was.
Also did not understand why a former Navy reactor officer was so averse toward “nook-ee-er” energy. Guess his Chief of Staff Amy advised against it.
