Suddenly Hormuz is less crucial... Paul Krugman

[House of Roberts]

11. I'd like to go back to the gas lines of the 70s.

I was 17, and my parents paid me to go sit in gas lines with each car, odd tags on odd numbered days, even tags on even numbered days. You could only get ten gallons per trip, and I had the perfect station to use. It was on the downhill side of a hill, and you could coast down the shoulder, without having to crank the engine when the line moved. I'd sit there with a cooler full of cokes and play the radio, get my ten gallons, and come back the next day with the other car.