ENERGY CRISIS, GAS SHORTAGE, 1970s

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[inkey2]

@MrITALIANGUY72 the cars back then may have looked more stylish but other than that they sucked. They were over powered, gas guzzling, ill handling death traps. The bodies rusted out quickly, they did not take a crash well, you constantly had to do tune ups and re-set ignition points, most were carburated (not fuel injection) so they were hell to start up in cold weather. I grew up with those old cars....I don't miss them at all

[Gaznugget]

@inkey2

Yes absolutely true, there is no incentive. But as for oil prices rising, isn't this already happening now? I predict what you said will occur in this 2010 to 2019 decade. I hardly see us getting to 2020 with everything the same as it is now.

[inkey2]

@Gaznugget as long as oil stays cheap here in the USA there is no incentive to go solar, electric cars, alternate energy etc. If gasoline and oil were to sky rocket "and stay there".....then you would see things change real fast

[ajgolfer1]

boomers can always put a nice spin on poverty

[Gaznugget]

@chroniclerofthe70s

Yeah I knew about Carter's solar panels being taken down by Reagan. So many people look at the 80s and 90s with nostalgia. I see them as decades of pure greed and believe that's how they will be seen forever in history.

[chroniclerofthe70s]

@Gaznugget An additional note. During the Carter administration, photovoltaic panels were installed on the white house.  When Reagan took office, he had the photovoltaic panels removed.

[chroniclerofthe70s]

@Gaznugget I know that college age boomers in the early 70s were really serious to the point of not having children as means of restoring the environment indirectly through population control. In the 70s, the government mandated new auto emission standards, home insulation with higher insulation values, and reduction of industry pollutants. Since the 80s, corporations have owned congress and their lobbyists have kept industries relatively unregulated. Today, they do this with carbon credits.

[Gaznugget]

@chroniclerofthe70s What I don't get is how could the adult generation of the 1970s sell out our futures for a measly couple more decades of greed, prosperity and self-interest. Right there in the 1970s the environmentalist movement was strong, the oil and energy crisis was a reality, and even your President Carter knew what had to be done. The USA could have took the right road from there, and now we'd probably have a better future ahead of us. But instead the USA got Reagan and "fell asleep".

[GeekBoy03]

@chroniclerofthe70s On today on the amount of oil imported. The number you gave here has probably been skewed by a well meaningful law which was passed some years ago back around 2003, and now abused by producers to even import gasoline and get a tax credit on it.

[chroniclerofthe70s]

@GeekBoy03 Are you referring to U.S. dependence on foreign oil today or back in the 70s? The figures seem to vary depending on the source.