As bad as things are perceived* to be right now, they will never be a bad as when Jimmy Carter was President.
*The perception is wrong.
For the cost of gas to take up the same percentage of family income that it did in the Carter energy crisis, we'd have to see crude oil at $90 a barrel. Actually, I suspect it would have to go even higher, because even most SUVs get mileage as good as we were getting out of compacts in '75.