Remember the odd-even plan? If you had a license plate starting with an odd number, you could fill up your tank only on Monday/Wed/Fri. If you had an even number, you could fill up only on Tues/Thurs/Sat. Sunday was a free day. I don't know how they enforced this, but it was the law here in California during those days when gasoline was scarce.
I remember we had to park our car on the street in a long line the night before in order to get gas the next morning when the station opened. It was the only gas station near us that actually had gas! It was pretty scary there for a while.
I remember that living in Colorado. Chevron had already embarked on building oil shale recovery systems on the Western Slope of the Colorado Rockies. They pulled the plug when prices dropped.
Half the morons in DC were too young to remember the Carter Years; and most of those who do remember, are trying to destroy the country.
My brother got so pissed off waiting in "the Carter lines," that when it was all over, he put in a 1,000 gallon subterranian oil tank behind his house.
Did he find out that Mogas doesnt keep long very well at all?
Or could he burn through that with a business fleet or some such?