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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI'm sure a few folks on here recall the 1970s long lines for gasoline.... Well, that's gonna make a comeback.
Some places it could take you an hour to get up to a gas pump, and then they might be out of gasoline for the day
Ill be damned, we never learn
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Prairie Gates
(7,757 posts)That's why they did Venezuela first.
ashredux
(2,915 posts)Initech
(108,383 posts)It's all going to Trump's billionaire criminal buddies.
Greg_In_SF
(1,178 posts)to happen. We get less than 10% of our oil from the middle east.
usedtobedemgurl
(1,987 posts)Thank goodness they have so much oil. We never have to worry since we are such good friends. Oh, wait ..
livetohike
(24,185 posts)on a certain day depending if the last # of your license plate was even or odd. This was in Pennsylvania.
miyazaki
(2,624 posts)I was just a tot but I still remember people pushing their cars which had run out of gas and people walking the traffic lines selling cokes lol.
debm55
(59,157 posts)livetohike
(24,185 posts)lines on your assigned day. I was living on the West End in Pgh from 1974-1978
. Subbing in the City of Pgh schools.
debm55
(59,157 posts)There was another gas shortage in 1979, same thing all the way from Pittsburgh to Miami. It took us almost a week and a half to get there.
DJ Synikus Makisimus
(1,330 posts)it can fetch the highest price. There was an Obama-era Presidential decree that kept domestic production domestic, but that was one of the first things Trump put an end to in his first go-round, probably at the urging of Rex Tillerson and other extractive-industry buddies. Biden did not bring it back, which probably just would have led to its repeal again anyway.
I have no idea what's going to happen to oil prices when they start trading later today, but I expect a rise. If I had an internal-combustion vehicle, which I don't, I'd have filled it up yesterday when I first heard of bombs falling.
FBaggins
(28,689 posts)In the 1970s, we imported 1/3 of our oil, and almost all of that came from the Middle East. Now we're a net exporter by millions of barrels per day.
ret5hd
(22,416 posts)get yours before its too late!
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ProfessorGAC
(76,429 posts)The US produces nearly 70% of national consumption.
Add Canada, Mexico, & Venezuela and there is more need for Middle Eastern oil.
In addition, the nearly 14 million bbl/day produced in this country occurs while operating pumps at under 80% of current capacity.
Finally, I lived about 30 miles from Chicago during the embargo. Gas lines were VERY uncommon.
ColoringFool
(548 posts)MichMan
(17,004 posts)Returned again on 1979 when he was president
WhiskeyGrinder
(26,799 posts)happen now, either.
gulliver
(13,895 posts)...losing his second Presidential term to Reagan thanks to the Iranian revolution.
RubyRose
(318 posts)Skittles
(170,774 posts)he sent his teenaged kids to get gas
Kaleva
(40,307 posts)Xolodno
(7,336 posts)...turn a blind eye to Russian imported oil.
Melon
(1,342 posts)The US gets 5% of our demand from the region.