OT: Oil companies

[rocco16 at sbcglobal.net (LEF)]

I've been through the crises of 1973 and of 1980 (IIRC).  It wasn't bad.  Buy a locking gas cap and the thieves just went elsewhere.   Gas was always available somewhere...if you were willing to wait in a 30 minute line to buy 10 gallons, you had no problems.  Mostly, we just struck up conversations in the lines and made the best of it. 
  After all, everyone was in the same predicament. 

 I had just sold my Toyota Corona and bought a new, full-sized Chevy van in '73....really poor timing!

larry
sandiego16v
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Spewey 
  To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org 
  Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 8:53 AM
  Subject: Re: OT: Oil companies


  Marc Getty wrote:
  > The same week a few dozen gas stations in town were without any gas for a day or two. The concept of no gas at any price is a very scary one for those of us not old enough to have lived through the gas chrisis of the 70s. I'd much rather pay $3.00 or even $7.00 a gallon then have no gas at all!!

  I'd like to hear anyone's stories about siphoning in the 70s.  I was 
  alive but not very old and I have heard that theft by siphoning was 
  rampant in some areas.  Did it happen where you were?  Did locking 
  gascaps mean thieves just punched a hole in the bottom?  Did it happen 
  because gas was expensive or unavailable?

  ***

  We have E85 pumps all over the place in MN and today it was the same 
  price as gas, $3.  Why would anyone buy it when it has fewer BTUs? 
  Don't get me started on ethanol...

  ***

  Bonus, pics of Chavez in Russia buying AK-103s
  http://www.kommersant.com/page.asp?idr=530&id=693087

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