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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. if your license plate ended in an even number, you could get gas on a certain day. if your license plate ended in an odd number, you had to wait a day if you wanted to get gas. it led to people hoarding license plates, or changing them from one vehicle to another. 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. very strange times, they were. 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. i think it would be better to call it lack of production, whether willful or otherwise. we had gas reserves back then, too.
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? 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. 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.