A little "Gas Crisis" history for you youngsters out there....

[mcscajun]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis
Do check out the photos.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_energy_crisis
The Second Energy Crisis

[BlueJac]

1. No shit

reminds me of the 70's, just like the protests. Never learned nothing then....just hope we learn something now. People get smart oil is out dated..................reinvent transportation and heating before it is too late!!! Fucking eh!!! What is wrong with this stupid fucking country.wake the fuck up!!!

[Beam Me Up]

4. WE, that is, the people of the United States, DO NOT SET POLICY.

Oh, I know, we're supposed to believe we do and blame ourselves when policy goes wrong, but that isn't quite how it works. Yes, we knew we needed to build a renewable energy infrastructure to support our society thirty-fourty years ago. It didn't happen. Why not? Partly because the average person just didn't 'get it' but the REAL reason is because RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES CAN NOT BE CONTROLLED MONOLYTHICALLY BY US AND EUROPEAN GLOBAL HEGEMONY. In other words, it is about central control of global energy MARKETS. Think about what it would mean re Capitalist influence and control if every country could generate all the energy it needed for its own development.

[skooooo]

5. oh pooh!!!!

http://www.archive.org/stream/Destinat1956/Destinat1956_256kb.rm

This animated cartoon follows the adventures of "Colonel Cosmic," a Martian, as he learns that Oil and Competition are the two things that make America great. It is a sci-fi-influenced economic tract on the strengths of Earth-style free enterprise economics, compared to a stagnating Mars under the fist of a certain Mr. Ogg, who centrally controls the Martian economy. In the film, a Martian undercover agent flies from Mars to Earth to learn about the oil industry, and finds that the lack of government regimentation and control is what makes our system flourish.

[Skink]

6. See I think this is where Iran is fairly progressive...

they develop Nuclear power which has its little fringe benefits I know but then they sell off thier massive fossil fuel reserves and become very rich.

[BlueJac]

7. Come on get responsible to the world we live in!

Don't sound so casual.

[IN-dem]

2. Thanks for calling me young :)

But sadly I do remember this. And does anybody else remember the little orange stickers on the light switches at school? I think they said "turn off to conserve energy" something like that.

[mcscajun]

8. Well, you are young. Those stickers were at my office...

:)

And I was already married for a couple of years when the first 'crisis' hit.

[Carni]

3. I was around for both and don't relish going there again

Thanks for posting this.

I don't think people have any idea how f'd up this could get and this time around we have satan at the helm staging the whole thing.

[mcscajun]

9. Exactly...if there's any history that's bound to get overlooked in schools

...it's recent domestic history.

Quick Jump from Vietnam War to 9/11 -- Full Steam ahead!