[Miss Marple]

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!

[KevinDavis]

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.

[SAMS]

I remember the "Odd/Even" gas lines!!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

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 . . .

[iceskater]

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.