During the Carter years, one might have had to drive to six gas stations to fill up, given that each one had a gallon or dollar limit and factoring the fuel burned getting from one to the next.
Had a college friend whose entire family went Galt during the Carter years because job commutes became impossible, living on a family friend’s farm and doing work that saved him from buying 6 digits worth of farm equipment. I mean totally Galt to the level of a pioneer leaving for Oregon, down to their pastor coming to bless them goodbye for what they figured was forever.
Then Ronnie got elected. Their return and ‘reunion’ about 5 years later was pretty damn joyous.
We all dealt with those gas line & limited purchases.
We got to work, did some car pooling, etc & were careful about where we traveled to.
Since then, we dealt with gas costing over $5 a gallon.
We were NOT snowflakes that said we couldn’t go to school & take our tests because the cost of gas was so high & the Prime interest rate was OVER 20%.
IF this happened today, the snowflakes would be melting wholesale.