BIIMsc03 04 Gas Line, Summer 1979
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- In Summer of 1979, gasoline was being rationed. On this day, we were told we could only get 10 gallons, first come, first served, until what the gas station had on-hand ran out. It was priced at just under $1.00 per gallon. Only a short time before, it was under 70c/gallon.
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Anyone else here to look at the old cars. What gigantic beasts they were.
My friend in high school would drive us around in her mom's "tuna boat". 😅
205 love that BIG OL White Town Car about a 75 to 77
We used to have one it was called ole blue 😆😆 I was born in 82 so as a kid that thing used to be so huge and very roomy inside I remember my sister and I sitting in the back seat staring out the window watching the world go by 😁
yeah, and most of"em are american cars to!
In 1979, I stood in line at my local gas station at 5am just to get a limit of 5 gallons of gasoline at 80¢ a gallon on odd day in my like new 1969 Chrysler town and country station wagon. A big long wide land yacht guzzling hog it was. This video is exactly the way it was all over USA at the time. Gasoline rationing, gas siphoning, gas odd even days, gas lines, no gas out of gas signs all over too. Fist fights did happen all over USA too due to people cutting in line with their cars, trucks, SUV'S etc... Jimmy Carter's malaise misery index speech was a joke. Turn down your thermostat to 68° and wear a sweater was his answer to the energy crises oil embargo of the time. All those gas hogs, tanks, land yachts are worth big bucks now if you can find one. It was an experience for sure. Looks like it might repeat in the summer of 2023.
we were more patient back then. there would be mass chaos and rioting today.
Yes there was
People were shot on gas lines
NO THERE WERE ALWAYS PLENTY OF ARGUMENTS IT WASNT FUN GOING TO THESE LINES
The song "Just When I Need You the Most", brings back a lot of memories from 1979. As a kid way back then, I used to arrange my Hot Wheels cars in a circular pattern in front of a gas station playset. One of the fun memories from a very "simple" time.
4:36 That was a pretty nifty backing maneuver in that '70 Kingswood!
That was Dave, the station's assistant manager... an experienced car jocky, for sure!
Love the old cars and I remember all of them.
Nice to see all that Detroit iron.
I remember getting up early on a sat morning to go with my sister and her 72 Pontiac Granville, with a 400 cu inch v-8, we sate in line for hours, we did get gas, but I was a kid and remember this , we all had big cars at the time, ugh, hope we don't see this again anytime soon :(
The Jimmy Carter years
Historians have determined that the revolution that brought about regime change in Iran in early 1979 was in the works well before Carter attempted to convince the Shah to relax his own repressions on the people. The people of Iran, however, at the time, were intent on ousting the Shah, independent of Carter's influence, and the Shah left power in January of 1979. Carter is not to blame for it, nor the trouble the Islamic government of Iran still poses to the world today.
Carter had his own shortcomings, mainly in that he may have sometimes acted too late to prevent some problems, including that particular oil crisis. His administration did oversee some regulations that heightened the increase in mid-east crude oil shortages and resulting prices at that time.
He was a man with good intentions that, in some cases, were not well-executed. That 1979 oil situation was one of the more serious examples. The hostage situation? While it was nearly solved before he left office, the timing of the change of administration, followed by the actual hostage release, allowed Reagan to take credit for their release.
I personally honor the man, now, in April, 2023, on his death bed. I didn't vote for him, but, in hindsight, I feel like he was the better choice over the one I did vote for: Ford (born right here in Omaha, for whatever that matters!).
During the shortage of ‘73 odd even plate numbers had to buy gas on matching odd even days. I was driving a 1970 Monte Carlo, fully loaded, best car I ever owned. I would go back in a heartbeat.
I love this video thanks to whoever recorded this and 1979 a part of history
I videoed that back then with my first cumbersome "portable" camera and separate VCR setup. The camera weighed 5 to 10 pounds and the VCR on a shoulder strap was about 20 pounds! A far-cry from what we have today, weighing only a pound or so and videoing to a tiny SD card (instead of tape) in HD! I'm glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for commenting!
I remember this gasoline shortage. Definately not as bad as the one in 1973, Certain areas were not as bad. For example the govt made sure vacation areas had an ample supply as to not collapse their economy. I lived in the Boston suburbs in 1979. There was a shortage in my area but in Cape Cod there was plenty of gas
inkey2 l concur l live in San Jose California we had hard times finding gas but on the few times we went to San Francisco gas was not an issue because of the tourist influx
They were both bad!
I'm a Midwesterner, but am Grateful that Los Angeles, at long last, has a Comprehensive Rail transit system. They have a Subway Downtown, Elevated lines in the close-in neighborhoods, and grade-level rapid transit going to most of the Outer Suburbs. Even Beverly Hills now has a station!
It would be Nice, however, if more folks rode the trains.
It's awesome to hear how far the L.A. area mass transit rail system has expanded! It was just beginning construction when I moved back to Omaha from there in 1989! I've been back to visit many times, and picked up and dropped off a friend near the station nearest Whittier several times in the early 20-teens, although I never rode on it myself. Had it been as far along in the mid-1980s, when I lived there, as it is now, I might have taken advantage of it a lot! AND, maybe I might have stayed, since the traffic density and travel hold-ups were one of the several main reasons I wanted to leave!
@@rogerspeakman Exactly. It's not just that it's "Not Green" but, like NYC before THEY had Mass Transit (Early 1900s before the Subway really took off there) there are Massive Traffic Jams.
NYC DID have an El Train, as far back as the 1880s. Tenements were built in East Harlem, and the Lower East Side Immigrants gratefully moved up there to populate them. They Quickly turned into Slums as well, and when said Immigrants moved Up and Out, the Puerto Ricans populated them. West Harlem boomed in anticipation of the Subway line there. An African American Realtor oversold the place, and then the prices crashed (Years before the Great Depression.) SO...Blacks from San Juan Hill and The Tenderloin moved there. Many of the apartments were subdivided when rent increased.
That's how you get a Slum.
Similarly, in the South Bronx, the IRT line came in around 1906, and "New Law" tenements were quickly built near it's route. There had been an Elevated Line (which fell into disuse in the Twentieth Century, and was finally demolished in 1973.) The IRT lines, however, Really caused the population to Explode in that Borough. There were also fancier elevator buildings, starting in the 1920s, but Many people lived in walkups-like C's family in "Bronx Tale."
Post-World War Two-VHA loans, Freeways, and the Building Boom in Connecticut, New Jersey, and Further Upstate, caused White families to Live their Suburban Dream, and move out of The Bronx. Thousands of Middle Class families also moved to Co-Op City, which is located within the Borough. The Rent Stabilization Law meant that Landlords couldn't keep up with Inflation, and had no incentive to make repairs. When things Really went Downhill (Late Sixties/Early Seventies) both slumlords and tenants torched their buildings (although a Good number of those fires were Electrical, or caused by space heaters.) The Borough also lost a Lot of Industrial jobs in the Postwar Era.
A Lot of the Housing has since been rebuilt, and there are Dominicans, West Indians and First Generation African Immigrants living there.
I worked at a gas station when I was 16. It had a boat dock in the rear and the tanks for the boat dock weren't regulated by Gulf. The employees would back their cars along the side and run the hose from the boat dispensers after the station was shut down for gas sales.
1:18 . . "Just When I Needed You Most" by Randy VanWarmer, definitely the summer of '79, the kid reminds me of myself waiting in my 1971 8 cylinder AMC Javelin, thanks for this video Roger :)
Love that song
A nice song, in deed, and definitely brings you back to that time when you hear it! That was my sister with that song playing in our second family car, a Chevy. My dad was in the white Ford station wagon. I drove the car we late-teen children shared, the Mustang with the Cobra package glued onto it! I'm now older than my dad was (then 58) in that scene, at 65 in 2023! How time flies the older we get!
We had "odd and even" days. You could only get gas depending on whether your license plate ended in an odd or even number.
Wow! Which time period was that? Around 1973 or '79? And what part of the country? As I think I mentioned, this gas line event happened in Omaha, NE in '79. I don't believe we were restricted in gas amounts for longer than 1 or 2 months. But gas prices stayed at the 25-30% higher levels (at least $1.00/gallon) compared to where they were just prior to that event, indefinitely!
@@rogerspeakman I don't remember which year, it was so long ago.... This was in the SF Bay area of California.
Oh, and gas was only .65 a gallon for a long time, as I remember in the early 80's, it cost me $6.50 to fill my tank. This was before our state decided to use a different mix of gas that didn't create as much air pollution. This is why gas costs so much here.
@@NYCHFAN - I lived in Los Angeles from 1984 to 1989 and recall that gas prices were pretty reasonable then, as well. And the prices didn't vary nearly as much as I drove cross country to visit Omaha on my vacations. In the early 1990s, 91 & 92, I believe, gas was around maybe $1.30 to $1.50 a gallon in Omaha, but was just $.99 at Arco stations (when you paid in actual cash at the pumps) in the Los Angeles metro area, when I'd go back there often to see my many L.A. friends! But, as we well know, it's been more than twice the national average in CA for at least 15 to 17 years, probably mainly due to the region's loss of a number of functioning refineries since then.
Wow that’s crazy
I remember the energy crisis of the 70's, gas lineups in the US, we never had lineups in Canada, just high prices.
Us Canadians take things better.
I had just started driving and remember the gas lines well.
In Britain we had two petrol( gas) shortages in 1979. The first one in January was caused by a tanker drivers strike, which led to massive fuel shortages and closures of public buildings that used heating oil, and one in May 1979 that lasted about three weeks, which was resolved by a 25 pence hike in fuel prices. We didn't get it as bad as America, and the first dispute wasn't related to the energy crisis, because we used smaller cars and were becoming self sufficient. Yet during 1979 gas prices increased by 50 per cent and inflation rose to 15 per cent. Grim times.
im here actually to see the nice cars
Carter baby!!! The good ole days!!!
I wish it was 1979 all over again :(
So you mean you wish the gas prices were that low again... not the fact it was being rationed! I don't disagree, but for me to fully agree, you'd have needed to say it like I just did! 🙂 I also wish gas prices were that low again, and would stay that way. I don't miss 1979, though. Except I wish I could be 21 again!
@@rogerspeakman yeah I was 6 in 1979 so I guess that's why I wish it was 1979 again. No reason other than that - and I'm sure for alot of people 1979 might have sucked. So I was really just saying that I wish I was a kid again. I will say that when it comes to vintage footage of any time in the past century I do like the optics of the mid to late 70's to mid 80's. Again probably cause it was during my childhood but I do like it footage from that era.
@@bryanburnap4537 - I see your point. Naustalgia is a powerful draw. I'm not a fan of the times, styles lack of the level of tech we have now or the even better tech on the horizon, but it IS cool to be able to say I watched the first moon walk live, when it happened! I was playing with what I thought was fairly good tech when I shot that video with a huge, heavy portable VCR and a crappy camera not made to directly mate with it (so I had to modify it)! When I look at old video from that era, I just wish and wish I had had current video technology to video my early times with! But, still, it's good to have that old video! And, as I said before, I wish I could be 21 again, as I was that Summer of 79, with what I know and have experienced up to now, and with today's tech, if not even more-advanced tech than this! 🤣 Have I given away that I'm a Star Trek fan?
Anyway, nice of you to comment and tell us what you thought of when you saw that, Bryan! Thanks!
Back when people were normal, calm, reasonable & used common sense & courtesy.
To me, and I think to most of us there on that day, it was a novelty, this long gas line for which we began gathering about an hour before the station opened! So we stood around talking about it pleasantly, as some of us might have while in line for the first Star Wars movie a couple of years earlier! We made (well, I made) quips about how fast our $10.00/10 gallon limit per car was going to be used up if we brought several containers to fill along with the car's tank!
It was an unusual and novel time for us there on the north edge of Omaha Nebraska in the late spring/early summer of 1979. It didn't, but, had it dragged on for weeks, months, even a year, the conversations in the gas lines would certainly have moved more toward the irate end of the spectrum! As we saw happened in news stories of similar problems in more populated parts of the country where the shortages of gasoline happened several times and lasted for one or more months at a time!
U are 100% right about that people was normal and did have common sense not like today you walked to a gas station filming you have 10 people trying to fight you for no reason
@@davidjustice5805 - Where do you live that 10 people would try to fight you for videoing at a gas station (that you walked to instead of driving to)? Although rationed gas lines aren't common in the U.S. right now, I think I could do the same thing at a gas station today (though I doubt I'd have a reason to) and I'd bet no one would try to fight me for doing it! And I wouldn't stand out as much as I did in 1979 with that huge video rig, especially since it was pretty unusual, unless you were with local TV's news! (Although, back then, people sometimes thought I WAS with a local TV News team!) 🤷♂️
This watching auditor video on CZcams your see what I mean about people trying to fight people for filming in public
@@davidjustice5805 - Do you have a link to this video, so I can see what you mean?
I was a high school sophomore when this second crisis had taken place!
I think what that 1st person in line was doing was filling the 6 gallon gas can for the other rider in the car and then filling his own car with the $10 limit so after he was done he just put the extra 6 gallons of gas in his own car. What a scheister
Back in the day, when you could pump gas before going inside to pay for it.
We can still do this in Canada. Just dont live in crazy place.
At 2:05 love that BIG OL White Lincoln Town Car about a 75 to 77😊
Looks kinda fun. It's just nice to see cars that aren't streamlined.
I have a friend who laments the look of today's cars because it leads to little individuality. But I'd rather have the fuel economy of the lighter, more streamlined cars of today.
Although it was just a 1976 Mustang with a "Cobra" package glued onto it (by Ford, not the buyer), the car I'd driven to the "gas line" had a more streamlined look than either the Chevy Caprice Classic my sister drove in, or the Ford station wagon my dad was at the wheel of, while recording an audio cassette to a friend in New Zealand he "tape-sponded" with.
No, not as big a deal as it was earlier in the decade, like 1973, but it may have been the wildest such experience I'd had up to then, and I'd just gotten the means to document it! An unwieldy camera wired to a 21-pound portable Betamax deck combo... So, I did!
It wasn't.
i mean this footage is insane! and nobody wants to talk about how it primed the 1980s for the "on demand" consumer.
Back when all cars were beautiful and properly-built.
I get gas sometimes. My older sister was born in 1979. My mother once drove an orange 1978
Datsun.
Thanks for posting this great video. Wonderful to see this second hand. Where was this filmed?
I videoed this in Omaha, NE in 1979, about 35 years ago.
@@rogerspeakman 43 now and counting - time flies
I was 6 and i remember this.
“Is there gas in the car, yes there’s gas in the caaar”
Yes, but just barely! That potential gas shortage was just fleeting. If only I could have documented the major ones of several years earlier!
I went to college that year. I had to car pool, get lifts from cute guys on motorcycles, and stayed broke because of gas prices.
Remember Jimmy Carter was President
Historians have determined that the revolution that brought about regime change in Iran in early 1979 was in the works well before Carter attempted to convince the Shah to relax his own repressions on the people. The people of Iran, however, at the time, were intent on ousting the Shah, independent of Carter's influence, and the Shah left power in January of 1979. Carter is not to blame for it, nor the trouble the Islamic government of Iran still poses to the world today.
Carter had his own shortcomings, mainly in that he may have sometimes acted too late to prevent some problems, including that particular oil crisis. His administration did oversee some regulations that heightened the increase in mid-east crude oil shortages and resulting prices at that time.
He was a man with good intentions that, in some cases, were not well-executed. That 1979 oil situation was one of the more serious examples. The hostage situation? While it was nearly solved before he left office, the timing of the change of administration, followed by the actual hostage release, allowed Reagan to take credit for their release.
I personally honor the man, now, in April, 2023, on his death bed. I didn't vote for him, but, in hindsight, I feel like he was the better choice over the one I did vote for: Ford (born right here in Omaha, for whatever that matters!).
@@rogerspeakman I lived in Iran in 1974-75, and there was talk from local people (mainly younger ones) that the Shah was in danger. They also told me not to tell anyone because they didn't want to wind up in jail.
@@tomloft2000 😲
Jimmy Carter.. His name is all over this..
WAAAAAA.
Reagan and Clinton weren't any better.
Historians have determined that the revolution that brought about regime change in Iran in early 1979 was in the works well before Carter attempted to convince the Shah to relax his own repressions on the people. The people of Iran, however, at the time, were intent on ousting the Shah, independent of Carter's influence, and the Shah left power in January of 1979. Carter is not to blame for it, nor the trouble the Islamic government of Iran still poses to the world today.
Carter had his own shortcomings, mainly in that he may have sometimes acted too late to prevent some problems, including that particular oil crisis. His administration did oversee some regulations that heightened the increase in mid-east crude oil shortages and resulting prices at that time.
He was a man with good intentions that, in some cases, were not well-executed. That 1979 oil situation was one of the more serious examples. The hostage situation? While it was nearly solved before he left office, the timing of the change of administration, followed by the actual hostage release, allowed Reagan to take credit for their release.
I personally honor the man, now, in April, 2023, on his death bed. I didn't vote for him, but, in hindsight, I feel like he was the better choice over the one I did vote for: Ford (born right here in Omaha, for whatever that matters!).
I remember it well. What a mess.
Poor people.
Most cars today are large trucks. Way bigger than the cars of the 70s.most people arent hauling anything either and then they have the audacity to complain about gas prices.
Well, trucks ain't cars even though most people use them as such. That's why people consider the 60s and 70s cars to be unusually large.
Even and odd tags. Even can go this day and odd on this day.
I don't recall if that arrangement ever happened in our city (Omaha), but it wasn't how it was done on the day I shot this video.
BIG OLD GUZZLERS 😮
Who shot this?
Interesting.
That would be me, the guy who posted it... Roger Speakman, in Omaha, NE. I was around 21 when I shot this in 1979 (WOW! 35 years ago!). Since then, I've lived elsewhere, including Los Angeles for 5 years in the 1980's. But I'm back living near where this was shot. The gas station still exists, is still a Phillips 66, although the ownership has changed, probably more than once or twice, since then. Thanks for checking it out, and glad you found it interesting!
That's good that you kept this and able to post it.
I like it when the one car was playing Randy VanWarmer's song "Just When I Needed You Most." It came out that year.
crlaw75 I knew it was a familiar pop song when I replayed the video again today... but couldn't place it. Thanks for identifying it! That was my sister playing the radio in that shot.
I know my music!
The sevenites produced some great stuff.
Agreed! I still have a lot of vinyl from that decade! Even though I've re-gotten a lot of it on CD, I still have all the old vinyl!
How much was the gas this year ?
I zoom in on the gas pump in the video, where it shows it was at $1.00/gallon.
I wonder if some of these people stayed overnight?
I'm pretty sure none did. I was one of the first to arrive before the station opened. I was about 3rd in line. I don't think I was there over an hour before they started serving gas. This wasn't an extreme example of the gas shortage and gas cueing-lines situations, even during this less-severe gas shortage condition in the US. It was just MY experience of one!
I've never had such an experience since, thankfully! Today I put about 12.5 gallons in my Kia for $43.66 (woulda cost close to $12.50 back then) and it only took me about 5 minutes of my time -- less than the running time of this video!
I drove over 350 miles from a full tank to refilling it those 12.5 gallons, which is only about 70% of the tank's capacity! I like the range I get in my '06 Kia Optima (4-cyl, manual 5-gear tranny), even though there are now ads for cars able to get 6-700 miles on a tank!
Imagine how much gas those vehicles would have held then.
crlaw75 The little Mustang I drove in held roughly what my Kia holds, which is 17.1 Gal. The Mustang might have been closer to 15 Gal., as I recall, and got about 7mpg poorer mileage than my Kia, which has a bigger engine, so it traveled less distance on that same fuel amount.
But for its day, it was considered a fuel-economic car, at 24-26mpg on the highway (my Kia tends to do 32). But the Chevy and Ford my other family members drove to the station were probably 24-gallon-tankers, getting far-poorer mileage, still! Today's cars are much better, especially with gas and maintenance costs today, in my opinion!
What brand of car at 3`08.?
That was my dad's Ford station wagon (sorry, but I don't recall the model). It probably came out in the early 1970s.
@@rogerspeakman Maybe a Torino or Montego but I can't be sure.
@@tomloft2000 - Torino sounds familiar. So I'm going with that over a Montego! (Here's where a game-show contestant might ask, upon his answer being confirmed correct, "Wow, what have I won?")
@6:16 Uncle Junior!! Mr Magoo!!!
Well, that was my dad. I know who Mr. Magoo was, but who is/was Uncle Junior?
@@rogerspeakman It Is A Sopranos Quote, A Sopranos Character.
I guess I might have known that, had I ever watched "The Sapranos". Maybe I'll get around to it one of these days.
@@rogerspeakman Its A Good Show, No Disrespect To Your Father.
@@jovaniperez1443 From what I've heard, it's a GREAT show. But I think I've seen that it has a good number of seasons, so would be a lengthy binge! So I'd want to wait till I have a couple of weeks with a lot of open time for that binge!
And, as for my dad, who died around this time of year in 1992, no disrespect taken, especially since I understood the shot reminded you of a memorable line from a great show!
thanks for CARTER for regime change in the second biggest exporter of the oil in the world(IRAN)
and bringing terrorist regime in place of it!! we still suffer from that dumb move 50 years later🤬🤬🤬
Historians have determined that the revolution that brought about regime change in Iran in early 1979 was in the works well before Carter attempted to convince the Shah to relax his own repressions on the people. The people of Iran, however, at the time, were intent on ousting the Shah, independent of Carter's influence, and the Shah left power in January of 1979. Carter is not to blame for it, nor the trouble the Islamic government of Iran still poses to the world today.
Carter had his own shortcomings, mainly in that he may have sometimes acted too late to prevent some problems, including that particular oil crisis. His administration did oversee some regulations that heightened the increase in mid-east crude oil shortages and resulting prices at that time.
He was a man with good intentions that, in some cases, were not well-executed. That 1979 oil situation was one of the more serious examples. The hostage situation? While it was nearly solved before he left office, the timing of the change of administration, followed by the actual hostage release, allowed Reagan to take credit for their release.
I personally honor the man, now, in April, 2023, on his death bed. I didn't vote for him, but, in hindsight, I feel like he was the better choice over the one I did vote for: Ford (born right here in Omaha, for whatever that matters!).
entertaining to have someone in room challenge to see if they can name make and model I'm the champ
and gas was probably a wallet melting 1.79 a gallon
Only Joe Obiden could f-up things worse than Jimmy Carter.
10 gallons wouldn't last many of those cars long. US cars are still too thirsty even today.
I live in the UK.Standard unleaded is £1.27 a litre (diesel £1.32 a litre) today at my local service station.That's US$7.80 per US gallon and you are moaning about US$3! The average family car takes a 45 or so litre tank. Over £60 or US$90 for a full tank at our prices.
cbohar84 is right. The US should try European prices. I'm sure you'd soon be ditching SUV's and taking up diesel powered cars.About 70% of European cars are diesel powered, with more each year.
30%+ more mileage for each gallon and diesels don't have spark plugs, coils and other electrical stuff to go wrong.
10 gallons gets me a week to 10 days, these days. The 4-cylinder car I was filling in the video in 1979 got about 26 miles to the gallon. My current 4-cylinder gets me about 32.
I've long known fuel for cars costs LOTS more in the UK and all of Europe than it has and does in the US. I wish we all had a more environmentally- and economically-friendly fuel source today than we do. We can thank the oil producers for the hold-up of our receiving of such better fuel sources. It does cost me about $60US to put 15 gallons in my tank... a bit under 60 Litres. I can go 2-3 weeks on that. I sure wish I could afford a decent hybrid that can go at least 55-60 miles to a gallon with about a 12-gallon tank. But I only got my $18,000 car a few years ago, so can't yet afford to buy a $32,000 hybrid.
I dumped my van, like an SUV, 7 years ago. I still miss its cargo capacity sometimes, but need the better fuel economy of my compact. Diesel still costs about 25% more here than regular unleaded, so its economy doesn't exceed the added cost. Plus it burns much less cleanly. I had a friend in the 80's with a diesel car, when diesel cost less than unleaded, and he regretted having it. Now it's available everywhere, but, then, it was hard to find, and so smelly and greater carbon footprint! Today in the US, not a preferred option, so it's not readily offered in a passenger car. I read what you say about their giving 30% more kilometers/litre, but it's not worth it here with the carbon factor.
I saved and posted this video for its history/humor sake. Glad you and a few others have enjoyed it. -Roger, Omaha, NE
I'd reconsider getting a hybrid car, as the battery (when it packs in) costs a packet.
Diesels are a lot cleaner than they used to be.
One way would be to get a mid to late 1980's Mercedes diesel (engines start at 2 litres) or a similar early 1990's VW (1.6 litres upwards)and run it on veg oil or convert it, depending on the climate where you live.
You don't want the newer diesels, as they have exhaust catalysts and engine computers.
Perhaps some fast food places near you that would give you their waste oil for free.Even considering the carbon factor, it's still better than throwing the oil away.It's greener than using imported fuels.
Depending on the system you use (single or twin tank), apart from some solvent (white spirit), it would be almost free.
Any increase in American gas prices will hurt when you are paying up to $15,000 per year for health insurance. The UK and the USA pay the same amount for a barrel of oil. Your gasoline (petrol) prices are sky high because your government chooses to to levy heavy taxes on petrol.....I assume that they tax it so high because your government has more social programs to fund. I am not say that's a bad thing.......but "it is what it is"
True, but such taxes fund lots of things including the NHS.
Our annual car taxes are based on the engine capacity and/or carbon dioxide emissions (for olderr cars the former). For the highest 'bands', you are looking at £1,000 plus a year. For the first year on the road, it is doubled.
The taxes are high, which means UK/European vehicles are fuel efficient. You don't see many US vehicles (recent ones I mean), because they are simply too thirsty.
We hear lots of horror stories here in the UK, where people's US health insurance require them to contribute to a claim and they have to declare bankruptcy. This is despite paying premiums, which you rightly point out are so high, they are beyond most people.
If paying more for fuel means (amongst other things), I don't have to go bankrupt after a major illness, then so be it.
The US has so many vested interests (insurance companies, pharmaceuticals etc), that a US 'NHS' will be unlikely.
People will still die of illnesses they can't afford to be treated, which get worse.
Funny, Europe and all it's problematic thinking always trying to lecture other parts in the world, you keep whatever going there and if we need something we'll contact you..
And to think, Jimmy Carter is still alive today. 2023.
Carter was a horrible president.
True. Seems like déjà vu now-a-days, and you hit it on the head as to why! Only things different are wide-spread gas-lines and that our (kinda-under-dog) president got re-elected.
10 years ago, I was barely recovering from poor or under-employment of the 80's and 90's, starting to finally work a bit more steadily, only to be plunged into now, thanks to mis-deeds of the "W" administration that are going to take at least twice as long to fix as Obama has in two terms.
Thanks for commenting!
Nothing like a old school Phillips 66 gas station iam a gas and oil can collector
The good ‘ol days, before the attack of the eastern monkeys.
It was all the democrats fault. There was no real shortage.
I'll agree to disagree. It wasn't the "Democrats", in general, as much as, to a slight degree, Carter's lack of experience. But the main blame lies with the markets, and the middle eastern oil cartels. Oil prices and shortages vary by whims of such entities, based on political issues and occurrences, like the unrest in Iran. And, at the time, Iran was a major oil producer, so, when that unrest happened, shortages of world-wide oil distribution were a very predictable result.
I didn't vote for Jimmy (I voted, blindly, for Ford). But I like him, as much as an atheist like me can like a theist like he is. He was a well-meaning, but less effective president. But he was only slightly to blame for that oil crisis. I wish him well. I know we are likely to, soon, hear of his health issues meaning we've lost a great statesman and humanitarian, between now (May 31, 2023) and the next few weeks or months, albeit at the end of a very respectable long life! My respect to Jimmy Carter. A very good man.
all trumps fault
If that one could legitimately have been added to his list of crimes, the list would probably have broken from the weight by now!
🤣Isn't everything Trumps' fault? Good one Frances.😁
Waaaaa. Beat it Qstain
Only the US experienced gas lines. Here in Canada, we never experienced anything like this. It seems the supply chain for the US failed.