ORIGINAL: jh27_1970
ORIGINAL: RoswellGrey
ORIGINAL: Paladin06
> > Gas rationing in the 80's worked even though we grumbled About it.
Gas rationing in the '80s? Did they do that in the 1880s? I never heard about it in the 1980s. Nobody ever asked me for my rationing book.
Yes they did !!! might have been late 70's But it was odd number even on your plate you could only by gas every other day only on interstates was it not rationed but $5 went alot further then .. that was the "historical Highs" they used to tak about till we blew threw them months ago
Yeah, that was in the '70s. And it wasn't anything formal like that article seems to imply. I was in Des Moines, Iowa, during both gas crisises (in '73-'74 and the brief one in '79), and -- aside from some stations closing earlier than normal and not being open on Sundays -- there was never any real problem getting gas. I know in a few parts of the country -- especially big cities in the northeast -- such things as odd/even license plate distribution did occur.