Oh God!! Of all the carpola I have lived through those gas lines were the absolute worst. I was living in Miami at the time and my only saving grace was that I drove an MG and it went forever on a tank of gas. We used to cruise around at really odd hours looking for a gas station with a semi short line.
***Oh God!! Of all the carpola I have lived through those gas lines were the absolute worst.****
It is interesting that in the middle of the US from New Mexico to Arkansas gas was plentiful at that time. Just higher in price. Then there was that d***ed 55 mile speed limit on all highways.
We used to think it was funny to watch the Californians get into fist fights over who was next in line at a gas station while we had plenty.
The only time gas got tight here was on 9-11. It went up almost 200 % on that day. It later dropped.
I remember the oil crisis all too well. We could only buy gas on odd or even days, depending on the license plate. We had to drive from Houston to Dallas one weekend and had to carry 10 extra gallons of gas in the truck to assure we wouldn’t get stranded in between. That was a dangerous practice, but we had no alternative choice.
You'd think some enterprising gas station would do home delivery of gas under those circumstances. Seems silly to have to waste gas driving around and looking for a station and then waiting some more in line to get gas.