Because most people's memories are a few weeks long...
At least we don’t have the gasoline shortages they had in the 1970s. Long gas lines sucked.
I remember the 70’s. I was a new bride, just moved to a new state where my husban’s job didn’t pan out. We cleaned chickenhouses, had little food, shoveled roofs and eventually had foodstamps for about 6 months. Learned how to budget food on the twenty-one dollars we got.