I remember this all too well. I've experienced it twice, (1973-74, 1979-80). 💰🙄

I was military and stationed out of state during the '79 - '80 rationing. In the state where I was stationed, to prevent out of state travelers who were passing through the state from being stranded because they were there on the "wrong" day to buy gas, odd-even rationing did not apply to vehicles with out of state license plates. My car was registered back in my home state so I could buy gas on any day I needed it. However, I still had to find stations that still had gas to sell and sit in line like everyone else. It was not uncommon for stations to completely run out of gas until their next delivery day, which made even longer the lines at stations that still had gas to sell. Sometimes we'd sit in line for however long, half an hour, whatever, and just when we were about to finally make it to the pumps they'd put out the "Out of Gas" signs. Everyone who had been waiting in line would then have to go find another station that still had gas, get in line, and start the whole wait over again. Back then it was much more rare for gas stations to be open 24-7, so you couldn't go get gas late at night when fewer people were out. It limited pretty much everyone to finding gas during the day and evening, which made the lines even longer. The odd-even rationing system would not work now with self serve pumps and "personalized" license plates with all letters and no numbers. Also, back then it was much more rare for people to have more than one car, so swapping license plates between cars to get around the odd-even system was less likely than it would be now.

Aaaaaand we’re back

The great Frank Casey. One of the first African American television reporter's in the NYC area. One of my role models growing up

Even half a century ago, people thought the President controlled gas prices. Wild 😂

2024 is shaping up to look a lot like 1980. What a mess we’re in, not just in America but I can tell as an Englishman these kinda scenes we’re seeing again just like in the late 70s.

That black reporter sure does sound like a young Morgan Freeman!! Awesome!

I remember this when I was a kid.

Ah the Good ole days. Thanks for sharing.

Unlike the 1973-74 go around, we didn't have many long lines in the 1979-80 turn. The price nearly doubled though in a few months from 55 cents a gallon in Nov, 1979 to $1 by Feb, 1980. A month later it was $1.30 and then it came down to about $1.10-1.15 and stayed that way for about 15 years.

Great reporting

Look at the size of some of those cars. Like boats. Probably all 8 cylinders and 12 mpg. I think this was the start of when compact cars became popular.

Thank you for the video.

there were some nice stylish cars back then. wish i could pay $1.15 for a gallon now.

I returned to the US in April '79 just when gas was going up .50 per gallon to .80+ in Dallas. Big V8 cars were selling at firesale prices the next year..

🤔over 40 years ago and sounds very familiar I was a kid in the seventies and remember my dad talking about the oil crisis and him saying the oil drums were full It's all about greed and control folks

Anyone else think he sounds like Morgan freeman ?

I was in Germany as a 3rd ID soldier for the first half of 1979 so didn’t experience any of this. The second half, I was in Florida and I don’t remember any issues getting gasoline when I needed it. Remember seeing it on television but that’s about it.

Amazing. I was making good money in the Gulf of Mexico. Carter was having the thermostat down. Reagan pulled the October surprise and ordered the solar panels to be removed. Things were groovy for me from 80 to 83. Then shortly after Hinckley did his deal Saudi light went from $42 a Barrel to $24. My Supply Boat company told us Yankees to go home. That means everyone from North of Highway 90 to East of the Pearl River. I am from South Carolina so that meant me.

Anyone else here now that gas is over $5 a gallon

The guy at 0:54 was in two gas lines and still doesn't have a tank of gas because he drives a 73 Cadillac with a 472 c.i. that gets seven miles to the gallon. The gas light turns on in those cars when it gets to a half a tank. But I'd drive one Lol!

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I'd wait in line for hours, finally make it up to the pump, fill up, then go to the back of the line and burn all my gas out waiting to make it back up to the pump again. I would repeat this all day long and do it again two days later. Suddenly, my gas bill was killing me and I couldn't figure out why. I was a bit neurotic back then.

The lady that said there is no gas shortage was right on.

That woman is so right...there was never a shortage even today... studies have claimed that there is 190 years of crude oil left at current consumption levels

I remember that , my car was even and mom/dad had odd..... we were good to go.

I thought that guy narrating sounds like Morgan Freeman lol

May 11 2021. Looking for gas

who is watching in 2022?

Aw, I remember this well! I lived in Queens, NY and stood on a line over an hour only to reach the pumps and find no gas! Listen to the girl in the beginning of the video about contacting The President....sound familiar....CoronaVirus!

1979 Detroit. Corvette crashes the line. Old rusty mustang takes off her gas lock-cap and clicks it right down on the vette then drives away. A beautiful thing.

Why didn't the woman with the Honda Civic just check the gas gauge?

But it is still misery: And it is almost a zero sum-game where nobody wins.

Luckily I worked as a gas station attendant during college thru this period. There was a ridiculous 4 gallon limit. I made all my family members bring their cars to my station. The lines were blocks long, so I'd ask the driver at the front of the line if 4 gallons was enough & they always said no, so I told them i'd fill them up if they let my family member cut in line ahead of them, & they always said yes. So my family got full tanks & no waiting. But it was a terrible period, Carter was just as incompetent as Biden, except not corrupt like Biden. Jimmy Carter himself was a decent person.

Sounds like Morgan Freeman narrating. Whoa!

I was vacationing in California in 1979, when this happened & had to get up in the middle of the night to get gas, to avoid the extremely long gas lines! The rental company gave me a "gas guzzling" large car,(even though I paid for a compact) & half-way through the vacation, I went back & demanded a smaller one! Then, Pres. Carter's inept governing style caused this & other crisis to happen & we are now seeing a 'repeat' of similar problems with Pres. Biden!

Lady with cigarette was the first Karen now she is 80 lives next door continues to complain about all the neighbors while smoking .

My parents use to switch the odd and even license plates on their cars.

For a second there, I thought I was hearing Morgan Freeman.

that's some High quality camera footage.

All I remember it well... Getting waking up at 4:00 in the morning so I could go sit in my dad's car and wait to get gas.. only I was 15 in New Jersey. 😁👍👍

It's coming soon to a theater near you 😊

The news reporter sounds like Morgan freeman narrating lol

The last days of an inclusive society... Since then exclusive society and homeless camps.

2k21 said “hold my beer”

People buy cars the size of tanks then complain about the cost of gas?

Just wait till gas goes to 6. 7. A gal

Mad max

In 1973, during rationing, I was in High School, and a few of us had acquired some 5 gallon cans and a garden hose. We drove into the rich neighborhoods, and one would siphon gas from it while the other 2 stood watch. We'd fill the cans (sometimes draining the car's tank and have to go find another car), then took the filled cans to any gas station. We'd offer the last guy in line $5 for 5 gallons. Invariably, he'd snatch it up (gas was about $.40 a gallon then). We had quite a business, plus there was no waiting in line for us, and our cars stayed full of gas. Of course, it was blatantly illegal, but we were 16, 17 years old, and didn't really care.

And history repeats itself. They playing the same games again.

So what was Jimmy Carter doing back then?

"better put some water in that damn shit"- john witherspoon

1:14 Ford Pinto Wagon!😎

Wow! We were "less racist" back then!

All these people didn’t know that their cars could run on a diluted tank of diesel and gas. O well I never had that problem in the 70’s. No lines. Don’t do it to fuel injection cars. It was classified as necessary to transportation for diesel.

0:34 that guy just wants to go home

Every car is a giant gas guzzler LOL😅

Why not build more and extensive public transportation then, after this happen

My pops issue… now mine

This is why Carter was dispatched in 1980.

These Years also had the highest crime rates that America had ever seen

And they are still addicted to gasoline today!

I don't remember it being like that? Graduated from highschool in 1974 but people started buying smaller cars and Japan flooded the market with little shit shakers!

73 / 74 I Remember Well Odd And Even Lol Everyone I Knew That Had Cars Just Switched Plates on Cars And Got Gas Same Day , Hint Dont Get Caught By Boys in Blue ,BIG TICKETS Were Being Handed out For Those Who Got Caught Or For New Yorkers They Call It ,Pinched Lol

Big old american cars at the time sure did chug a lot of gas. I like em'

Reporter sound like Morgan Freeman

I’d be switching plates

2022

and still all about the money!

No one questions why they pretended that the oil was running out decades ago, but oil is still here? Why is everything a lie???

We back but we at the southeast

Pure misery for everybody. And I guess that forces everybody to the bus and therefore, you get the ridership needed for a robust public transit system. And the rationale is easy: The weather is too damn miserable

Morgan Freeman is that you? 😲

From 96th to 104th... And that was just one car Lol

00:45 is this Morgan Freeman

That guy sounds like a young Morgan Freeman.

sunglasses were such a trend in the 70s

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Biden: hold my beer

Just wait a hundred years from now... there will be no more gas.... EVER.

The youngest ones in this vid are in their early 70's.

1:08 dead giveaway 😁😄😄😄🤣🤣🤣

You know it’s funny to think about it now we were too poor to own a car so we had no clue what the oil embargo meant

WHEN PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THAT OPEC…”NOT THE PRESIDENT” CONTROLS GAS PRICING MAYBE THEY CAN GAIN SOME UNDERSTANDING…

OPEC nations rule the world.

the only good thing about this report is you DON'T HEAR THE WORD "BIDEN"

Biden is the new Jimmy Carter

Somehow every driver sounds like a drug-addict. Just replace the needle with the petrol nozzle.

Pitiful.

We are there again. Hmm...

💀 out!!! Lmao

1973 was worse. 1979 was bad too.

Do what I did back then… GET A JOB AT A GAS STATION! Can get gas everyday!

Yeah, all those frustrated irate people and not one cussword. Yep, those really were the good old days. See how much we've changed in 41 years

1:22 FULL OF SHIT SHORT ON HELP YEAH RIGHT

Gee doesn't that look all too familiar!!!!!!!

I hear this trend is making a come back, thanks poppa Joe

🤧This was the beginning of the end of the big beautiful luxury american cars.

So, according to "Boomer Hater" philosophy, these lines would have been the fault of people born between 46-59? Or this was part of the richness we inherited when we had it made? I'm so confused about that.

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