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Originally Posted by SilverTransAm
in america we've really been spoiled up until now... Â*i'm pretty sure that gas has been this expensive everywhere else in the world for a while, we're just catching up now
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this is true, at least in the countries that i have visited.
the gas crunch in the '70s was something to behold. Â*if your license plate ended in an even number, you could get gas on a certain day. Â*if your license plate ended in an odd number, you had to wait a day if you wanted to get gas. Â*it led to people hoarding license plates, or changing them from one vehicle to another. Â*then my dad got a 55 gallon drum from work with a hand pump on the top and filled it with gas, hid it behind the garage. Â*very strange times, they were. Â*i was at best 10 years old, but i vividly remember all of the "tricks" to getting around the gas shortage - and i doubt very much that there was EVER a shortage. Â*i think it would be better to call it lack of production, whether willful or otherwise. Â*we had gas reserves back then, too. Â*
the thing about our gas reserves that i don't understand is why not use them now and wait for the prices to go down, then replenish them at the lower price? Â*guess we have some real idiots at the higher levels of government...
i have also been thinking about a moped or a smaller-engine motorcycle. Â*a moped i could get by on without altering my license, but over a certain cc, i think, you have to get the motorcycle endorsement.