To: KevinDavis
No outside Christmas lights, because of the energy crisis. We also had to keep our thermostats turned down in office buildings, and other such feeble efforts which did nothing but make everyone miserable.
If you weren't an adult during the Carter years, you really missed something. Disco was the HIGH point!
To: Miss Marple; All
He must have been that bad if Disco was the High point of the 70's. If it wasn't for Nixon, he would not have won at all.
104 posted on
04/06/2005 5:27:50 AM PDT by
KevinDavis
(Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
To: Miss Marple
I remember the "Odd/Even" gas lines!!
154 posted on
04/06/2005 6:08:19 AM PDT by
SAMS
(Nobody loves a soldier until the enemy is at the gate; Army Wife & Marine Mom)
To: Miss Marple
We also had to keep our thermostats turned down in office buildings, and other such feeble efforts which did nothing but make everyone miserable. Our office had air conditioning, but we were required to set the thermostat high to "save" energy. The fact that the design of our A/C was such that setting the thermostat higher WASTED energy rather than saving it didn't matter, of course . . .
166 posted on
04/06/2005 6:18:46 AM PDT by
conservatism_IS_compassion
(The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters but PR.)
To: Miss Marple
Wow - I had forgotten about no Christmas lights. Our neighborhood had a contest for the best decorated house without using lights.
I graduated from college in 1980 and I truly believed that I would never own a home because of the sky-high interest rates. And the finagling and scheduling my family had to go through to deal with making sure we could get gas for the car - "those were the days". I'll gladly pay $2.50+/gallon to not have to live through that again.
181 posted on
04/06/2005 6:45:32 AM PDT by
iceskater
("Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." - Kipling)
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