Anyone that has been around long enough has seen what has happened the last two times gas (energy) prices have skyrocketed. Bad recessions, bad economies etc. The price gouging going on now in the markets make the last two times pale in comparison. Anyone could have seen this coming like an atom bomb. Thank Putin, Iran, Saddam, Saudi Arabia, Chavez, China, Democrats etc, not any generation in particular.
The generation before that gave us Lyndon Johnson ,Water Cronkite,Mao,Stalin Hitler to name a few.
"The generation before that gave us Lyndon Johnson ,Water Cronkite,Mao,Stalin Hitler to name a few."
Most of those you list were born at least 2 generations before the boomers. The generation before the boomers was their parents who went through the Depression and fought WWII then decided they're kids wouldn't go through that and spoiled the little boomer tykes into the monsters they became. When they grew up the self-centered boomers believed the spoiling to be their national entitlement.