The 70s: “It can’t get any Higher than 55 cents a Gallon.”

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gallon overnight, that was by 1975. (From <a href="https://www.titlemax.com/discovery-center/planes-trains-and-automobiles/average-gas-prices-through-history/">1956 to ’72 gas prices</a> were between 30 cents and 36 cents a gallon on average in the US.) From <a href="https://www.titlemax.com/discovery-center/planes-trains-and-automobiles/average-gas-prices-through-history/">1929 to 1955 gasoline prices</a> ranged from 19 to 29 cents a gallon.</p><p id="9ca2">In the next ten years, women joined the workforce in droves. It was an economic thing and to a lesser degree a women’s liberation movement. Prices were on the rise tied to the rise of oil prices. Wages had stagnated while inflation rose — in part because of rising gas prices. Planned opalescence was being implemented. People were bamboozled out of being citizens because of our part in being consumers aka serfs/slaves to the capitalistic greed. It was a death march /mass extinction event know as suicide aka addiction to short-term profits.</p><p id="1267">In 1978, I got a 2-bedroom apartment in a 4-plex house for $250.00 month. Of course, I was only making a little over$ 7 per hour as a Psychiatric Aide in a private psych hospital. But when I worked as a contractor in tech, I was making $12 an hour — damn good for those days and all overtime my body could take. I was working a 70-hour week for nine months and saving for school.</p><h1 id="8b73">Before and Now</h1><p id="7da6">Oil companies and the Big3 car manufacturers suppressed electric car start-ups by buying them and shutting them down. That was in the 1990s. In the 2000s, alternative fuel aka biodiesel, with the help of state governments shut down biodiesel for the most part. Result: carbon release. It was a policy of neglect was continued to be perpetrated resulting in the same old, same old.

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Or the continued trend in a rise in global temperatures and the climate crisis.</p><p id="70c9">For years we have been conditioned to championing the internal combustion engine fueled by the petroleum-based product of gasoline. People, such as myself, draw comfort from fuel efficiency related to mph — miles per gallon — of GASOLINE. We are burning of millions of dead dinosaurs and destroying our future, which is here.</p><p id="9b2e">We need to recover from our addiction to Western Civilization.</p><p id="5ce5">We need to rise up through Grass-Roots organizations with Massive Strikes and continuous pressure on Our Government to take action to put in balance corporate greed for the needs of all the people, not just the rich.</p><h1 id="35f1">Bring the Fight for Change and Save our Place with the Planet</h1><p id="14ec">If we humans are to survive as a species then actions are required on a Grass-Roots level as a tidal wave of change. If not the planet will go on without us.</p><h2 id="37a0">Organizations and Resources</h2><p id="b4cc"><b>Overall and Education</b>: <a href="https://www.drawdown.org/">Project Drawndown</a>, <a href="http://The Most Important Climate Actions You Can Take Now">The Most Important Climate Actions You Can Take Now</a> (<b><i>all of the following-below and more are covered in Krista Kurth’s piece — preceding link</i></b>).</p><p id="c4cb"><b>Local and Nationwide Action Groups</b>: <a href="https://www.sierraclub.org/">The Sierra Club</a>, <a href="https://350.org/">350.org</a>, <a href="https://www.climaterealityproject.org/">The Climate Reality Project</a>, <a href="http://www.climatenetwork.org/">Climate Action Network</a>, <a href="https://citizensclimatelobby.org/">Citizens Climate Lobby</a> and <a href="https://rebellion.global/">Extinction Rebellion</a>.</p></article></body>

Gasoline Prices Rose — A Dramatic Tipping Point

Gas prices went from 35 cents a gallon in 1972 to 55 cents a gallon in 1975. The quote “It can get any higher that 55 cents a gallon,” was someone talking at the pump to anyone who would listen.

We were sheep.

We did as we were told.

We worked harder and for what?

Is life better now? No, it’s much worst for most of us.

We accept higher prices because we believe we don’t have a choice. We retreat, accept, “bite the bullet”, live in fear, work more, save less, live on credit, spend down fear. We spent our rebelliousness earlier in the Civil Rights Movement and the Anti-Vietnam War movement and then, like the rest of us citizens, we did as we’re told living on promises that “things” will get better, but that has yet to materialize. And still we retreat, hunker down, prepare for the worst and continue to live beyond our means, serfs or slaves to the rich…

The Capitalism of Greed has been and continues to hurt us and is on the way to killing us — vis-à-vis the climate crisis.

1970-’75

Gasoline prices in my neck of the woods — New England were about $0.35 a gallon in ‘72. The Arab Oil Crisis 1973 appeared and gas was rationed. After it was over, gas prices went to 55 cents a gallon overnight, that was by 1975. (From 1956 to ’72 gas prices were between 30 cents and 36 cents a gallon on average in the US.) From 1929 to 1955 gasoline prices ranged from 19 to 29 cents a gallon.

In the next ten years, women joined the workforce in droves. It was an economic thing and to a lesser degree a women’s liberation movement. Prices were on the rise tied to the rise of oil prices. Wages had stagnated while inflation rose — in part because of rising gas prices. Planned opalescence was being implemented. People were bamboozled out of being citizens because of our part in being consumers aka serfs/slaves to the capitalistic greed. It was a death march /mass extinction event know as suicide aka addiction to short-term profits.

In 1978, I got a 2-bedroom apartment in a 4-plex house for $250.00 month. Of course, I was only making a little over $7 per hour as a Psychiatric Aide in a private psych hospital. But when I worked as a contractor in tech, I was making $12 an hour — damn good for those days and all overtime my body could take. I was working a 70-hour week for nine months and saving for school.

Before and Now

Oil companies and the Big3 car manufacturers suppressed electric car start-ups by buying them and shutting them down. That was in the 1990s. In the 2000s, alternative fuel aka biodiesel, with the help of state governments shut down biodiesel for the most part. Result: carbon release. It was a policy of neglect was continued to be perpetrated resulting in the same old, same old. Or the continued trend in a rise in global temperatures and the climate crisis.

For years we have been conditioned to championing the internal combustion engine fueled by the petroleum-based product of gasoline. People, such as myself, draw comfort from fuel efficiency related to mph — miles per gallon — of GASOLINE. We are burning of millions of dead dinosaurs and destroying our future, which is here.

We need to recover from our addiction to Western Civilization.

We need to rise up through Grass-Roots organizations with Massive Strikes and continuous pressure on Our Government to take action to put in balance corporate greed for the needs of all the people, not just the rich.