I was 10 during the first oil crisis. I still remember being in the car with my mother as we passed the cheapest station in town and her exclamation, "I will not pay 50¢ [$2.72 in 2006 dollars] a gallon for gas!" My grandmother would get up at 5 a.m. to wait in line (New Jersey had an odd-even system--even numbered license plates on even numbered days, etc.) She was impressed by the young men who would sell coffee and doughnuts to those waiting. At the time, she was driving a 1969 Mercury Marquis Colony Park station wagon that got 13 mpg on a good day.
That there are shortages now in places makes me wonder what is really going on.
In Montreal, gas is running about $1.20/litre ($1.06 US), but no one is really having a fit. Last summer, it got up to $1.35 ($1.19 US) and then people were in a mood. We buy our gas in Vermont, where it is running between 68-75¢/litre (USD).
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Date: 2006-04-25 04:26 pm (UTC)That there are shortages now in places makes me wonder what is really going on.
In Montreal, gas is running about $1.20/litre ($1.06 US), but no one is really having a fit. Last summer, it got up to $1.35 ($1.19 US) and then people were in a mood. We buy our gas in Vermont, where it is running between 68-75¢/litre (USD).