I'm sure a few folks on here recall the 1970s long lines for gasoline.... Well, that's gonna make a comeback.

[ashredux]

Some places it could take you an hour to get up to a gas pump, and then they might be out of gasoline for the day…
I’ll be damned, we never learn…🤦‍♂️

[Prairie Gates]

1. Doubt it

That's why they did Venezuela first.

[ashredux]

10. We ain't seeing that oil to gasoline anytime soon

[Initech]

21. That Venezuela oil heist? We ain't seeing a drop or a dime from that.

It's all going to Trump's billionaire criminal buddies.

[Greg_In_SF]

2. That's not going

to happen. We get less than 10% of our oil from the middle east.

[usedtobedemgurl]

3. Nah! We have an awesome ally with Canada!

Thank goodness they have so much oil. We never have to worry since we are such good friends. Oh, wait…..

[livetohike]

4. Remember it well. I think you could only buy gas

on a certain day depending if the last # of your license plate was even or odd. This was in Pennsylvania.

[miyazaki]

6. Yep. Odd and even days.

I was just a tot but I still remember people pushing their cars which had run out of gas and people walking the traffic lines selling cokes lol.

[debm55]

16. I was just going to post that, Here in Pittsburgh area, it was the last digit of your license plate.

[livetohike]

17. I'm glad someone else remembers it! There were such long

lines on your assigned day. I was living on the West End in Pgh from 1974-1978 . Subbing in the City of Pgh schools.

[debm55]

18. We got married in 1979 and married in June , 1979. We drove to Miami from Pittsburgh as I was afraid to fly in a plane.

There was another gas shortage in 1979, same thing all the way from Pittsburgh to Miami. It took us almost a week and a half to get there.

[DJ Synikus Makisimus]

5. Oil is a worldwide market. Domestic production will flow wherever

it can fetch the highest price. There was an Obama-era Presidential decree that kept domestic production domestic, but that was one of the first things Trump put an end to in his first go-round, probably at the urging of Rex Tillerson and other extractive-industry buddies. Biden did not bring it back, which probably just would have led to its repeal again anyway.

I have no idea what's going to happen to oil prices when they start trading later today, but I expect a rise. If I had an internal-combustion vehicle, which I don't, I'd have filled it up yesterday when I first heard of bombs falling.

[FBaggins]

7. The world has changed too much since then. All we might see is rising prices

In the 1970s, we imported 1/3 of our oil, and almost all of that came from the Middle East. Now we're a net exporter by millions of barrels per day.

[ret5hd]

8. My "Soros Brand Gas Pass" will get me right past those lines...

get yours before its too late!

All you have to do to get one is attend two protests and sign up for the newsletter!

[ProfessorGAC]

9. Near Zero Chance Of That Happening

The US produces nearly 70% of national consumption.
Add Canada, Mexico, & Venezuela and there is more need for Middle Eastern oil.
In addition, the nearly 14 million bbl/day produced in this country occurs while operating pumps at under 80% of current capacity.
Finally, I lived about 30 miles from Chicago during the embargo. Gas lines were VERY uncommon.

[ColoringFool]

11. You Mean When Big Oil Conspired To Doom Jimmy Carter?

[MichMan]

12. They started in 1973 before he was elected

Returned again on 1979 when he was president

[WhiskeyGrinder]

13. That didn't happen during Desert Storm, the Iraq War or for more than a day or two after 9/11, so no, it's not going to

happen now, either.

[gulliver]

14. I remember Jimmy Carter (a great man)...

...losing his second Presidential term to Reagan thanks to the Iranian revolution.

[RubyRose]

15. Perhaps in Russia and China but not here.,

[Skittles]

19. my dad had an easy solution for those lines

he sent his teenaged kids to get gas

[Kaleva]

20. Less then 10% of the oil the US imports comes from the ME

[Xolodno]

22. More likely will see more nations...

...turn a blind eye to Russian imported oil.

[Melon]

23. We had cut our own production to buy from the Middle East. Now we are the largest producer in the world.

The US gets 5% of our demand from the region.