Long lines, no gas: 1979's odd-even gas rationing

[@Jake-rs9nq]

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

[@dougtheviking6503]

Well, the one we have now isn't helping much.

[@Jake-rs9nq]

@@dougtheviking6503 None of Biden's policies have any noticable effect on gas prices. The main influence that government has on gas prices is the gas tax, but that hasn't changed since 1993. The main contributor to gas prices is the price of crude oil, which governments do not get to decide. That price is determined by factors beyond his control, namely worldwide demand (especially from China) and OPEC decisions. The US is currently producing more oil than at any time previously in its history. The US is currently producing more oil than any other country, throughout history. Yet this doesn't have that much of an impact on oil prices. This is becuase oil is traded on an international market, so supply and demand worldwide must be taken into account.

[@gregorymalchuk272]

The government was mandating rationing when they should have just allowed the price to rise and people to get more miserly with their fuel usage.

[@myidentityisinjesus8880]

Trump $1.84 because he made us energy independent for the first time in history. Biden $3.44 because he killed our energy independence his first week in office. Yes, the president controls gas prices.

[@desertweasel6965]

Um, he kind of does control gas prices. If the president gives away all of our oil, even our oil reserves, then supply goes way down which drives the prices up. Yes, she was correct in blaming the president, because he does have the power to lower gas prices.

[@TS-ef2gv]

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.

[@adomniapericula]

What if you were stranded in line and your car had no gas left in it, and the station had run out of gas, too? How did people manage to get home? Did they leave their cars in line?

[@brandonbell5357]

Thanks 👍

[@duke6024]

​@@adomniapericulaI was 15 then I can assure you don't want Americans dependants on Saudi Arabia or any other, we have our own. Everything is dependant on fossil fuels even green energy is. Most lock in protect America

[@kawikajones9436]

@@adomniapericula had to have someone push the car out of the way and then have someone go somewhere to get a gallon of gas with a gallon jug or just get a tow truck if there were no other gas stations nearby. That was the life back then.

[@CAPEjkg]

Great reporting

[@sambradley1968]

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

[@azia5051]

Sad for you pro.

[@Critical-Thinker895]

Yes I remember it too. Sadly we may be there again soon.

[@Thomass7586]

Ah the Good ole days. Thanks for sharing.

[@azia5051]

And now it happens “again”. Lol

[@DagdasSoup]

@@azia5051 But it didn't.

[@iTZxaFRo]

Aaaaaand we’re back

[@azia5051]

You are right but under “ Joey Biden”. Lol

[@deer105]

@@azia5051 He's talking about cutting back to the news desk. That's what the anchor would say when they cut away from the camera on the street back to the desk. Don't remember?

[@azia5051]

Meredith Parker yeah I do. Lol

[@Jake-rs9nq]

No we aren't. Gas is still available everywhere. And if you think the price has increased, just research historical prices and then adjust for inflation. Gas at $3.30 a gallon today is equivalent to 85 cents in 1979, which is almost exactly what it was.

[@gtripmusic2906]

@@Jake-rs9nq Not rn

[@JamesWorley]

I remember this when I was a kid.

[@Menaceblue3]

History certainly repeats doesn't it?

[@MultiRingtail]

And we are back

[@tamratmekuria2165]

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

[@CowSaysMooMoo]

Wow...I just saw a reporter....you must be racist :-)

[@UnderCver-bd1xh]

@@CowSaysMooMoo 🤣

[@muffs55mercury61]

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.

[@VictorMorales-d6v]

I know "Inflation" and all that but 1.30 for a gallon of gas seems like a right treat about now.

[@thomaslord7995]

It stayed $1.10-$1.30 for only 6 years. I vividly remember the price going dramatically below a dollar in the late spring of 1986. It was actually in the 80 cent range that summer. It wasn't until the early nineties that it rose back up over a dollar again.

[@wessexfox5197]

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.

[@jediskunk67]

History always repeats itself

[@Armanii2795]

@@jediskunk67 not really, the gas prices today are because of the russian ukrainian war, back then it was because middle eastern countries didn’t want to supply any oil

[@isaiahjacob1944]

@@Armanii2795 not just that but don’t forget if joe didn’t stop the keystone xl pipeline we wouldn’t have this problem🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

[@wessexfox5197]

@@Armanii2795 you mean because of our pointless sanctions that do nothing but hurt the poor and middle class. Biden is a warmonger who will never allow the Ukrainians and Russians to come to a pragmatic compromise.

[@OxySynth]

Maybe its time to get rid of fossil fuels? How about that idea? We had more than 40 years time to do that.

[@telcobilly]

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..

[@lelabrooks04]

May 11 2021. Looking for gas

[@MarcusPearl]

Anyone else think he sounds like Morgan freeman ?

[@ASDAPIX]

Definitely

[@carlreich]

Thanks Jimmy Carter.

[@windellmcspindell3652]

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.

[@mckessa17]

I was living in Canada at the time and do not remember dealing with this.

[@williamwilson6499]

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.

[@letthetruthbetold5602]

I thought that guy narrating sounds like Morgan Freeman lol

[@Victoria-sh3fd]

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.

[@thomaschristopher8593]

more like the '73 shortage caused that impetus.

[@cg0825]

I was only 6 or so then but I remember my mother telling me that lots of people began getting small cars that were more efficient. The first car I ever got when I first got my license in 1990 was a 1978 car and it was one of those huge ones like that

[@theconfusedphilosopher4724]

I never understood why anyone would buy a car that large irrespective of gas prices.

[@cg0825]

@@theconfusedphilosopher4724 times were different

[@MrWolfSnack]

@@theconfusedphilosopher4724 "I never understood why anyone would buy a car that large irrespective of gas prices." Because that's how cars were built since the late 1940's. And people buy cars now that are twice as large as these 1970's cars today, so what the hell is your point?

[@gcbranger1189]

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

[@kurdt-l8c]

So then we have to go back to making 4 dollars minimum wage choose your poison

[@larrygro]

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

[@Jake-rs9nq]

It was a small global dip in production (reducing production by about 4%) but it was enough to cause shortages. The entire world had to use less oil. Other than America of course, which proceeded to use more oil than ever before.

[@larrygro]

@@Jake-rs9nq Energy. You want a strong economy and growth? You need energy. There was no shortage, there IS a man made stifling of production. Gosh and gee whiz……I wonder who is responsible for that.?

[@Jake-rs9nq]

@@larrygro Fossil fuels are finite, the world already hit peak conventional crude production almost 20 years ago. Now we've had to move onto more expensive shale, tar sands, and undersea production. Soon these will also peak. Humanity will have to face the music or change paths.

[@larrygro]

@@Jake-rs9nq we are….we don’t have to bring down and crash a whole country’s economy to do it. Lots and lots of dirty energy being consumed in the name of “ clean” energy.

[@jesseincognito.]

Maybe she should work at a gas station

[@btetschner]

Thank you for the video.

[@jeffsmith8197]

I went through both contrived oil crises'. This was the 7 international oil companies, at that time, conspiring with the Middle Eastern suppliers and the US Govt to panic the citizens in order to raise oil prices. In 1972 in CT gasoline was 31.9 cents a gallon. Then the price doubled, tripled and there was the gas rationing BS. America at that time was awash in oil. It was so plentiful that there was no reason to jack prices unless a crisis was invented.

[@RichesRevolution.]

We back here now

[@dwilson2548]

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. 😁👍👍

[@ijustwannabeadrummer]

So what was Jimmy Carter doing back then?

[@HelloooThere]

CHEWING ON PEANUTS

[@brandonbell5357]

Getting a BJ like Bill Clinton did

[@SheepofTheShepherd-nu3lz]

🤔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

[@brandonbell5357]

Yup

[@rr186650]

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!

[@JM-yx1lm]

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

[@MrWolfSnack]

lol I noticed the same thing. Iconic voice.

[@wileecoyote5749]

Because it is him snapperhead

[@KeyboardBuster]

They all sound kinds the same.

[@NextNate03]

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

[@rickybobby7276]

This looks like a Tesla supercharging line. The people who said they went to other gas stations already sound like EV owners who said they went to other charging network stations. This rationing system was incredibly stupid. Once rations are declared people go into crisis mode and start hoarding. Rations are the quickest way to create shortages. It's unproductive to force people to pay the rising cost of a good with their time rather than let prices increase and the market handle demand.

[@mikebon8352]

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

[@cj92akl]

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

[@MichaelJacksonzGlove]

Perhaps it was broken? 🤔 That's the only explanation I can think of.

[@Papag53]

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.

[@johnlewis195]

I was 6 years old but I don't Remember this...Thank Goodness

[@rongendron8705]

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!

[@christopherlevens8454]

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

[@theconfusedphilosopher4724]

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

[@Rihardololz]

its not about gas Price, it was limit how much you can put in car.

[@johnp139]

@@Rihardololzirrelevant

[@Rihardololz]

@@johnp139 Enough about you.

[@natashawall8131]

Sounds like Morgan Freeman narrating. Whoa!

[@ElohimAnnunakiCouncils]

Cloned

[@marvinbeasley6346]

2k21 said “hold my beer”

[@newlam7958]

I just got my drivers license when this happened. I also remember my Mom waiting in long gas lines in 1974.

[@phyllissnook]

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!

[@azia5051]

It old Biden fault, who cost all of these mass right now, in 2021.

[@brandonbell5357]

Nope

[@glitch-pr3nr]

Every car is a giant gas guzzler LOL😅

[@2011Savere]

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

[@milehighclassics]

My1973 Oldsmobile was somewhere near there then

[@PlasmaCoolantLeak]

I remember these very well. Funny thing was, I never had any trouble obtaining gas, and never waited in a line. Maybe the stations I went to weren't popular?

[@JaysEvo8]

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

[@The-rp6do]

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

[@rhondaeverett8284]

Yup. Same sh#t different days. Keystone shouldve been kept open.

[@nebtheweb8885]

@@rhondaeverett8284 Lol, keystone was 6 years or more from being completed and it was NOT for crude oil. It was for Canadian TAR SANDS. Would have made no difference.

[@rhondaeverett8284]

NebTheWeb reread my comment, i did Not say Keystone was for crude oil. It left open Would have made a difference to those that WERE employed there.

[@johnp139]

No, because IT ISN’T!!!

[@michaelblair5566]

This is why Carter was dispatched in 1980.

[@nyki7fykxtjxyi]

Like Biden

[@johnp139]

How about what happened in 1973??? Apparently doesn’t fit your narrative.

[@mattcarsnmusic]

1:14 Ford Pinto Wagon!😎

[@heartofthunder1440]

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

[@gtripmusic2906]

It happened faster than predicted

[@johnp139]

What?

[@Attmay]

The gas is overpriced now but it was gone then.

[@letshaveacuppa_official]

This one on way before 1979 as well

[@michaeldeth1485]

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

[@Jake-rs9nq]

You don’t know much about the oil crisis, do you? This was temporary, caused by a sudden drop in Iranian production that took a few months to compensate for. No one was claiming the oil was all gone. The oil crisis of 1973 was worse, the Middle East temporarily stopped selling oil to the US, suffocating the country.

[@johnp139]

IDIOT

[@brandonbell5357]

Dems block shit

[@stevemino142]

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

[@1MARAMAR]

Wow! We were "less racist" back then!

[@jesse8453]

WHAT ARE U ON ABOUT

[@alexludavertigo6926]

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

[@BrianHassett-ih3jp]

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

[@osterreichischerflochlandl4940]

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

[@terranceaddison4599]

that's some High quality camera footage.

[@drjustin84]

0:40 The experts chime in!🤣

[@danlowe8684]

When price went over $1.00/gallon, the pumps didn't have enough digits in the 'price per gallon' so they cut the price/gallon in half, and you paid double amount shown. Like a Y2K issue in the 70s!!

[@bobbyservantez2283]

Lmao she said why hasn’t nobody contacted the president 😂😂😂😂

[@anthonybha4510]

And they are still addicted to gasoline today!

[@mbing7453]

Mad max

[@causegamez]

Reporter sound like Morgan Freeman

[@doct0rnic]

Look how this crippled our economy, bring back trains and public transportation

[@nicholasdelgadillo1607]

Biden is the new Jimmy Carter

[@greggriggs9440]

He is weaker not for the worker one big mess we are in.

[@porfiriolopez3155]

Yes you are so correct. Jimmy Carter was an awful President no questions asked. Joe Biden will be the worst President in American history.

[@Senator_Senart]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/mn7ZiqxjqriDqck Nixon was a REPUBLICAN and he said and did the same things that Carter did..... The energy crisis is not just a Democratic party problem.

[@nebtheweb8885]

@@greggriggs9440 PRESIDENTS do not set gas prices. Gas prices are largely motivated by market forces outside the president’s control.

[@joeg5642]

So bidens a good president?

[@caseykelso1]

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

[@acpiper]

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.

[@OryAlle]

Pity you didn't get shot, filthy thieves.

[@SamTheSubSaharan]

Sigma grindset

[@williamwilson6499]

Nice story.

[@BigEightiesNewWave]

1973 was worse. 1979 was bad too.

[@GenerallyGeneralLee]

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.

[@Luke-kg7vu]

0:34 that guy just wants to go home

[@Rocky-xx2zg]

The Jimmy Carter Days !!!!

[@aaronwilliams6989]

Pitiful.

[@DigitalCyborgman]

My pops issue… now mine

[@arvyno7129]

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

[@alwaysshifting9574]

I’d be switching plates

[@MenelikAME]

who is watching in 2022?

[@Tony-nj9de]

sunglasses were such a trend in the 70s

[@stephenkiefer137]

The President was in on it too!!!!

[@armoryindustrial7884]

We are there again. Hmm...

[@johnp139]

How so?

[@eddiekulp1241]

Carter needed to secure the oil the country needed by any means and he didnt try.

[@ashho313]

This is. When america was up there. Now we or where we or today

[@mikexcarter594]

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

[@greatunz67]

The girl at the beginning of the video "this is unreal, isn't this disgusting?'.. Me in 2023: yep watching you smoking in your car sure is disgusting.

[@donaldfeger91]

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!

[@johnp139]

Only they were BETTER than the American CRAP CARS!!!

[@kaizersolze]

That guy sounds like a young Morgan Freeman.

[@MrWolfSnack]

00:45 is this Morgan Freeman

[@ericvonp]

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.

[@strategery101]

Biden: hold my beer

[@Sebi076]

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

[@christopherlevens8454]

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

[@Jake-rs9nq]

Buses should be preferred over cars, they're cheaper and more efficient in terms of resource, space, and energy usage.

[@jorgezarco9269]

OPEC nations rule the world.

[@jessihawkins9116]

Morgan Freeman is that you? 😲

[@genaroprieto57]

and still all about the money!

[@brandonbell5357]

Always will be facts

[@paulnewsom7629]

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

[@1bhadobs334]

Who’s here in 2024??

[@Chirtopher-x4e]

Contact the President!!! lol

[@laurajane4806]

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.

[@HelloooThere]

1:22 FULL OF SHIT SHORT ON HELP YEAH RIGHT