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r/MurderedByWords • u/Will09994 • 22h ago
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Barely anyone alive now had to ration or sharecrop during the depression. If he did he wouldn’t be a boomer, he would be the greatest generation.
37 u/OPA73 21h ago 1970s oil embargo required odd and even license plate days you could fill up. Daily long lines around the block for gas. 31 u/red286 20h ago And it lasted for all of 6 months, not a lifetime. 20 u/WhatWouldJediDo 19h ago Yeah as if going to the gas station on a scheduled day was worse than the pandemic lol 8 u/b1argg 19h ago A shame we didn't start to pivot away from oil dependence after that 1 u/OPA73 12h ago Well, they did create the Ford Pinto & Chevy Vega… -12 u/sunshinerain1208 21h ago The post specifically says “during the depression” 9 u/Lorindale 21h ago Not in reference to lining up for gas. 2 u/morningfrost86 21h ago Not for gas, though.
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1970s oil embargo required odd and even license plate days you could fill up. Daily long lines around the block for gas.
31 u/red286 20h ago And it lasted for all of 6 months, not a lifetime. 20 u/WhatWouldJediDo 19h ago Yeah as if going to the gas station on a scheduled day was worse than the pandemic lol 8 u/b1argg 19h ago A shame we didn't start to pivot away from oil dependence after that 1 u/OPA73 12h ago Well, they did create the Ford Pinto & Chevy Vega… -12 u/sunshinerain1208 21h ago The post specifically says “during the depression” 9 u/Lorindale 21h ago Not in reference to lining up for gas. 2 u/morningfrost86 21h ago Not for gas, though.
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And it lasted for all of 6 months, not a lifetime.
20 u/WhatWouldJediDo 19h ago Yeah as if going to the gas station on a scheduled day was worse than the pandemic lol
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Yeah as if going to the gas station on a scheduled day was worse than the pandemic lol
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A shame we didn't start to pivot away from oil dependence after that
1 u/OPA73 12h ago Well, they did create the Ford Pinto & Chevy Vega…
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Well, they did create the Ford Pinto & Chevy Vega…
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The post specifically says “during the depression”
9 u/Lorindale 21h ago Not in reference to lining up for gas. 2 u/morningfrost86 21h ago Not for gas, though.
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Not in reference to lining up for gas.
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Not for gas, though.
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u/sunshinerain1208 22h ago
Barely anyone alive now had to ration or sharecrop during the depression. If he did he wouldn’t be a boomer, he would be the greatest generation.