Recovered Memory!
Mar. 17th, 2005 09:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
doodlemaierDoes anyone else out there in LJ cyberland remember the gas crunch of 1974, or am I the only old-schooler out here?
I remember that if your license plate ended in an odd number you were allowed to buy gas on 3 certain days of the week, such as Monday-Wednesday-Friday, and if your tag ended in an even number your days were Tuesday-Thursday-Saturday (no one bought gas on Sundays) and my folks had to wait in lines that were blocks and hours long. I think that made quite an impression on me as a child. If anyone out there ever wonders why I'm so rabid about conservation and sustainability: Wonder no more!
This was the early psychic-injury which demonstrated to me that the world was not what I thought it was, and so I made a conscious decision to be a different way; I decided that I could never allow myself to become dependent on technology. In effect, that child still makes decisions for me today.
Even so, that 'crisis' was an economic scam. Every civilization in human history has collapsed at such point where they have run out of room to expand and/or used up their resources for energy.
I remember that if your license plate ended in an odd number you were allowed to buy gas on 3 certain days of the week, such as Monday-Wednesday-Friday, and if your tag ended in an even number your days were Tuesday-Thursday-Saturday (no one bought gas on Sundays) and my folks had to wait in lines that were blocks and hours long. I think that made quite an impression on me as a child. If anyone out there ever wonders why I'm so rabid about conservation and sustainability: Wonder no more!
This was the early psychic-injury which demonstrated to me that the world was not what I thought it was, and so I made a conscious decision to be a different way; I decided that I could never allow myself to become dependent on technology. In effect, that child still makes decisions for me today.
Even so, that 'crisis' was an economic scam. Every civilization in human history has collapsed at such point where they have run out of room to expand and/or used up their resources for energy.
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Date: 2005-03-17 02:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-17 04:08 pm (UTC)There was once or twice when we'd sneak over to the brother-in-law's tire store, they had their own tank to fill up the repair trucks, we didn't abuse the privledge, but when I drove up to tour CMU, I filled up there so I'd be sure I had enough gas to get out of the area.
Some of the most popular guys in highschool were the ones working at gas stations that year!
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Date: 2005-03-17 07:24 pm (UTC)