The current couple of generations never experienced gas station lines

[Klarkashton]

Last time was 1978..we may be headed for a repeat.

[boston bean]

1. I remember sitting in line with my mother and sisters. Something else.

And there was only 1 gas station in town.

[bamagal62]

15. I remember the gas lines.

My Dad owned 2 convenience stores at that time and one had gas pumps. The lines were crazy long.
It was a complete nightmare.

[boston bean]

16. License plates were indicative of when you could get in line. One day odd, one day even to fill up.

[bamagal62]

18. I did not remember that.

But, I was a teenager and, more than likely, wasn’t paying that much attention!

[RockRaven]

2. Given that we are now a net exporter, a physical/material shortage won't occur here

just the pricing people out of buying.

[Klarkashton]

3. Once panic buying starts it will be like toilet paper

Like Covid.

[RockRaven]

4. There isn't going to be analogous panic buying though.

Only a few morons would even try to buy gas at scale (how would you do it? you can't transport and store a year's supply of volatile liquid in your house like you can plastic-wrapped bundles of paper) and also gas pump prices are extremely responsive, they have already shot up which will put people off of bulk buying -- it is already too late.

[JustAnotherGen]

5. I remember it

We had just moved from West Germany where we walked everywhere (Weisbaden).

Like it was a big deal to drive to Abbott's (ice cream place back home) on a Sunday night.

[Ocelot II]

6. I remember that very well. You waited in long lines and in some places

gas stations were open only every other day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970s_energy_crisis

[mahatmakanejeeves]

7. Or cars that got 10 to 15 miles per gallon. NT

[Greg_In_SF]

8. We will not

experience gas shortages. This is nothing like the late 70's...not even close.

[Ping Tung]

9. I remember when gas prices were $0.35 a gallon.

[Timewas]

14. Or less

I recall in the 50's gas was inder .25 cents sometimes below .20 cents...

[flvegan]

10. Didn't Dopey Donnie say this would take two weeks?

No way McTacoTits lied.

At any rate, doubtful we'll see those types of gas station lines as a result.

[Kaleva]

11. Imports from the ME is less then 10% of total imports

The situation today is far different then it was in 1978.

[RT Atlanta]

12. nothing widespread, but on occasion there have been a few localized ones...

thinking of one from 15ish years back in Atlanta following a prolonged outage with a gas line (or hurricane) - cant quite remember the reason but there were some local stations that ran out of fuel for a week or so.

[Bluestocking]

13. I remember when gas was really expensive in the early 70s due to the gas crisis

Gas had gone to 49 cents a gallon. I was just a kid. Fast forward 50 years and I think we are going to 4.99 a gallon just like the W years.

The Republicans allowed this to happen and they will pay dearly in November.

[bamagal62]

17. Just glad I have the subway!

[ProfessorGAC]

19. Neither Did I

And, I was born in '56.
Never waited in line for gas; never even saw a gas line in person. Just newspaper photos.
Not saying it didn't happen, but it was clearly not a universal phenomenon.