This WPIX report from June 1979 will take you back to the first day of odd-even gas rationing, and how New Yorkers were coping with it. Frank Casey reports.
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.
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?
@@MA-ck4wuI 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
@@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.
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.
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.
@@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?
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.
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.
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.
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..
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.
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." 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?
🤔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
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.
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.
@@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.?
@@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.
@@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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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. 😁👍👍
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
I experienced the '79 shortages and more recently, the 2008 Hurricane Ike-caused shortage in the southeast US. Neither were pleasant to experience, but looking back, it was more of an annoyance than anything else. COVID restrictions were far, far worse.
th-cam.com/video/dMvYy-uSPsg/w-d-xo.html 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.
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.
@@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.
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
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
I see where you’re coming from but I disagree. You don’t think they had footages of irate people and cussing? Did we recently get that from the people today? It’s a news station so they have control on what edits and footages goes out. Btw it wouldn’t be a smart thing to upset the people more than what they already are.
Amazing. I was making good money in the Gulf of Mexico. Carter was having the thermostat down. Reagan pulled the October surprise and ordered the solar panels to be removed. Things were groovy for me from 80 to 83. Then shortly after Hinckley did his deal Saudi light went from $42 a Barrel to $24. My Supply Boat company told us Yankees to go home. That means everyone from North of Highway 90 to East of the Pearl River. I am from South Carolina so that meant me.
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.
Welcome to 2022 soon! Or you can charge 15 miles of range per hour on 110 home and chargers around town or pay for the 50amp DC charging but will be limited to 45 minutes per customer. Doing the math it looks like charging will cost about the same as gas with the addition of the electric car you should only need to drive 1.5 million miles on it to break even with a 36k gas vehicle that averages about 36mpg. Not bad however, no one puts anything close to that on a car ever. The few rare cases are well documented. Average “retail trade cycle” is 34 to 36 months which is roughly 36k miles on a car with people who have less money or ability to manage money hitting the 130k mile range before getting out of a car. Yes diesel guys we know you put 260k on or more but mostly with trucks like the F250 and F350 or Dodge Cummins. Toyota has an idea with the new Hydrogen cars but if only 3 cars are ahead of you expect at least 20 minutes before it’s your turn and expect 10 minutes or so to fill depending on outside temps and how fast the unit freezes. Also it’s not really any cheaper than gas.
There was a flood of magnetic motors and other novel free energy patents because of this during that time, that they had to open up the pumps FAST to get people off that thought process and back to the old grind.
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.
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?
Thanks 👍
@@MA-ck4wuI 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
Even half a century ago, people thought the President controlled gas prices. Wild 😂
Well, the one we have now isn't helping much.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
Aaaaaand we’re back
You are right but under “ Joey Biden”. Lol
@@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?
Meredith Parker yeah I do. Lol
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.
@@Jake-rs9nq Not rn
I remember this all too well. I've experienced it twice, (1973-74, 1979-80). 💰🙄
Sad for you pro.
Yes I remember it too. Sadly we may be there again soon.
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.
I know "Inflation" and all that but 1.30 for a gallon of gas seems like a right treat about now.
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.
The great Frank Casey. One of the first African American television reporter's in the NYC area. One of my role models growing up
Wow...I just saw a reporter....you must be racist :-)
@@CowSaysMooMoo 🤣
I remember this when I was a kid.
History certainly repeats doesn't it?
And we are back
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..
Anyone else think he sounds like Morgan freeman ?
Definitely
We back here now
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.
more like the '73 shortage caused that impetus.
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
I never understood why anyone would buy a car that large irrespective of gas prices.
@@theconfusedphilosopher4724 times were different
@@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?
May 11 2021. Looking for gas
🤔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
Yup
I just got my drivers license when this happened. I also remember my Mom waiting in long gas lines in 1974.
I thought that guy narrating sounds like Morgan Freeman lol
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.
The lady that said there is no gas shortage was right on.
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.
@@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.?
@@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.
@@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.
Maybe she should work at a gas station
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!
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.
Why didn't the woman with the Honda Civic just check the gas gauge?
Sounds like Morgan Freeman narrating. Whoa!
Cloned
But it is still misery: And it is almost a zero sum-game where nobody wins.
This one on way before 1979 as well
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.
For a second there, I thought I was hearing Morgan Freeman.
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!
It old Biden fault, who cost all of these mass right now, in 2021.
Nope
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.
2k21 said “hold my beer”
Lady with cigarette was the first Karen now she is 80 lives next door continues to complain about all the neighbors while smoking .
Do better
1:14 Ford Pinto Wagon!😎
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. 😁👍👍
Lmao she said why hasn’t nobody contacted the president 😂😂😂😂
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
"better put some water in that damn shit"- john witherspoon
I experienced the '79 shortages and more recently, the 2008 Hurricane Ike-caused shortage in the southeast US. Neither were pleasant to experience, but looking back, it was more of an annoyance than anything else. COVID restrictions were far, far worse.
that's some High quality camera footage.
Biden is the new Jimmy Carter
He is weaker not for the worker one big mess we are in.
Yes you are so correct. Jimmy Carter was an awful President no questions asked. Joe Biden will be the worst President in American history.
th-cam.com/video/dMvYy-uSPsg/w-d-xo.html 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.
@@greggriggs9440 PRESIDENTS do not set gas prices. Gas prices are largely motivated by market forces outside the president’s control.
So bidens a good president?
So what was Jimmy Carter doing back then?
CHEWING ON PEANUTS
Getting a BJ like Bill Clinton did
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.
0:34 that guy just wants to go home
This is. When america was up there. Now we or where we or today
Every car is a giant gas guzzler LOL😅
Reporter sound like Morgan Freeman
Anyone else here now that gas is over $5 a gallon
Yup. Same sh#t different days. Keystone shouldve been kept open.
@@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.
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.
No, because IT ISN’T!!!
This is why Carter was dispatched in 1980.
Like Biden
How about what happened in 1973??? Apparently doesn’t fit your narrative.
Big old american cars at the time sure did chug a lot of gas. I like em'
And they are still addicted to gasoline today!
My parents use to switch the odd and even license plates on their cars.
I remember that , my car was even and mom/dad had odd..... we were good to go.
Why not build more and extensive public transportation then, after this happen
and still all about the money!
Always will be facts
And history repeats itself. They playing the same games again.
who is watching in 2022?
1973 was worse. 1979 was bad too.
Morgan Freeman is that you? 😲
My pops issue… now mine
Somehow every driver sounds like a drug-addict. Just replace the needle with the petrol nozzle.
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
He sounds like Morgan Freeman
From 96th to 104th... And that was just one car Lol
Biden: hold my beer
That guy sounds like a young Morgan Freeman.
00:45 is this Morgan Freeman
I don’t think that lady complaining knows anything about opec
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.
sunglasses were such a trend in the 70s
Yea. So it going get worse
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
Buses should be preferred over cars, they're cheaper and more efficient in terms of resource, space, and energy usage.
Do what I did back then…
GET A JOB AT A GAS STATION!
Can get gas everyday!
SO THE PEOPLE WORKING AT THE GAS STATIONS TOOK THE GAS???
The news reporter sounds like Morgan freeman narrating lol
So glad when Reagan came in
PRESIDENTS do not set gas prices. Gas prices are largely motivated by market forces outside the president’s control.
Me too.
Ignorant fool!!!
Yeah, all those frustrated irate people and not one cussword. Yep, those really were the good old days. See how much we've changed in 41 years
I see where you’re coming from but I disagree. You don’t think they had footages of irate people and cussing? Did we recently get that from the people today? It’s a news station so they have control on what edits and footages goes out. Btw it wouldn’t be a smart thing to upset the people more than what they already are.
1:22 FULL OF SHIT SHORT ON HELP YEAH RIGHT
🤧This was the beginning of the end of the big beautiful luxury american cars.
Amazing. I was making good money in the Gulf of Mexico. Carter was having the thermostat down. Reagan pulled the October surprise and ordered the solar panels to be removed.
Things were groovy for me from 80 to 83. Then shortly after Hinckley did his deal Saudi light went from $42 a Barrel to $24.
My Supply Boat company told us Yankees to go home. That means everyone from North of Highway 90 to East of the Pearl River. I am from South Carolina so that meant me.
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.
💀 out!!! Lmao
Gee doesn't that look all too familiar!!!!!!!
I hear this trend is making a come back, thanks poppa Joe
PRESIDENTS do not set gas prices, numbnuts. Gas prices are largely motivated by market forces outside the president’s control.
FJB
No
Those democratic policies will get you every time
This wasn’t as bad as it was in 1973, but apparently that doesn’t fit your narrative.
2022
Thank you Joe Biden lol Vote Republican folks 😂
Just watch. It’s gonna go to this again. The way the economy and other stuff is going
No
I remember this bullshit shortage, what a mess, people stealing gas from one another, fights, even shootings, and it was all bullshit.
Anyone else notice something major always happens in the US (media distraction) as events in Palestine and the Israeli Occupation start to rupture
There was plenty of. Dave and live in a plenty of gas now
If that happened today they be getting robbed sitting there!
We back but we at the southeast
I'm 68 and I don't remember this
Welcome to 2022 soon! Or you can charge 15 miles of range per hour on 110 home and chargers around town or pay for the 50amp DC charging but will be limited to 45 minutes per customer. Doing the math it looks like charging will cost about the same as gas with the addition of the electric car you should only need to drive 1.5 million miles on it to break even with a 36k gas vehicle that averages about 36mpg. Not bad however, no one puts anything close to that on a car ever. The few rare cases are well documented.
Average “retail trade cycle” is 34 to 36 months which is roughly 36k miles on a car with people who have less money or ability to manage money hitting the 130k mile range before getting out of a car.
Yes diesel guys we know you put 260k on or more but mostly with trucks like the F250 and F350 or Dodge Cummins.
Toyota has an idea with the new Hydrogen cars but if only 3 cars are ahead of you expect at least 20 minutes before it’s your turn and expect 10 minutes or so to fill depending on outside temps and how fast the unit freezes. Also it’s not really any cheaper than gas.
Only that DIDN’T HAPPEN!!!
When the US became Venezuela
Biden/Harris taking us back in time
Wrong
الله يرحم الملك فيصل
There was no shortage then or now. All government
Yup
Moron
We should be paying a dollar fifty a gallon in the united states
Get ready, this is about to happen again soon in the Southeast US. You can thank Brandon. It's going to be bad!
Didn’t happen, LOOSER!!!
Always happens under a Democrat
Contact the President are you Kidding as if he can do something 🛢️⛽🚙 🚗 🛻🚐 🚚 🚛 🚜 🏎️ 🚒 🚑 🚓 🚕🛺 🚌
There was a flood of magnetic motors and other novel free energy patents because of this during that time, that they had to open up the pumps FAST to get people off that thought process and back to the old grind.
Free energy doesn't exist. That's a violation of the laws of thermodynamics.
Just wait a hundred years from now... there will be no more gas.... EVER.