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Gas Rationing: 1970′s or 2012? You Decide!

Nov. 9, 2012 5:20pm Benny Johnson

With New Jersey town implementing 1970′s style licence plate gas rationing, we though you would like to take a quiz. But first, ponder this thought from conservative icon Michelle Malkin, who lived through the first rationing in south New Jersey:

“My memories of gas rationing under Carter were vivid and indelible. I was a grade-schooler in south Jersey My younger brother and I sat in the back of an Aspen wagon with our panting poodle. It was hot, sticky, slow & miserable. Government-engineered malaise at its worst. And now: History repeats itself.”

With that in mind please take our quiz, oh and try not to cheat by looking at fashion or make and models of the cars:

1. 1979 or 2012?

Gas Rationing 1970s or 2012: You Decide!

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2. 1979 or 2012?

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3. 1979 or 2012?

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4. 1979 or 2012?

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5. 1979 or 2012?

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6. 1979 or 2012?

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7. 1979 or 2012?

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8. 1979 or 2012?

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9. 1979 or 2012?

8. 1970′s or 2012?

10. 1979 or 2012?

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Answers?

1. 2012

2. 1979

3. 1979

4. 2012

5. 1979

6. 2012

7. 1979

8. 1979

9. 2012

10. 1979

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screamineagle
Posted on November 10, 2012 at 2:36pm
This Jus In……………………….Bloomburger Signs Decree Outlawing Any Gasoline Container Larger Than 16 oz……………… Says This Needed To Fight Obesity And Cause More Speedwalking,,,, Hey, Mayor,,, How’s Your Hammar Hanging Now There Sweetpea? He’s Such A Great Republicrat ,,,,,, Like Christie Come To Think Of It

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watashbuddyfriend
Posted on November 10, 2012 at 10:18am
Now, it seems to me that after ALL these years of events that Big Brother, who tries to cover all events, but, covers NONE, would have a plan in place to handle these situations!

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unmanned
Posted on November 10, 2012 at 2:45am
They’re saying that they’re trying to protect native american land form “toxic” oil? Why is oil so toxic anyway and since when did native american start fishing so much, besides didn’t we beat them fair and square? I personally enjoy the fact that winters aren’t that cold anymore anyway!

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- DeOppressoLiber
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 10:11am
  After the Muslim Brotherhood has established a loose Caliphate and Dear Leader will not drill, we will not become energy independent this will be the norm.
  
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- DeOppressoLiber
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 10:13am
  Our economic debt is our Center Of Gravity and the enemy will exploit it as they should, we asked for it Tuesday.
  
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- Oilfield_Trash
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 11:13am
  Even if the adminstration would ease up on the permitting process, it would take years to get the rigs back in the Gulf, when they imposed the moratorium, alot of companies, instead allowing the rigs to sit idle and not show a profit, moved overseas and are now under contract somewhere else. On top of that, he gave billons to foreign governments to drill in the southern gulf, when none of the oil will ever be used in the US, it was already earmarked for China, (on a side note, the major stockholder for Petrobras, Brazil’s nationally owned oil company, is George Soros). Cuba, and Petrobras are drilling in the Gulf as we speak.
  
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RobDavis
Posted on November 10, 2012 at 1:57am
Check out my hurricane sandy video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPAjxT6xheE

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asybot12
Posted on November 10, 2012 at 1:39am
The latest the Obama government announced today it will not allow leases for oil and shale gas on 1.6 million acres of land in the west!! Here you go USA. And you think you are going to get better ?? it is on a site called Human Events (www.humanevents.com)

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waymoregooder
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 11:30pm
you know what…good.
look at the map – everyone in blue states who voted for obama should have to wait in line for gas, groceries and medical care. good for them – they deserve it. meanwhile, i am going to top off my 75k bmw and let it run all day just because i can (for now).

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- Oilfield_Trash
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 11:22am
  And pay $10.00 a gallon for gas, when they can get it. No fuel efficient vehicles in my drive way either, I think my truck ate a Prius the other day….
  
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Small World
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 9:21pm
@patdollard.com Obama shuts down western oil drilling .first laid out by G.W.Bush. Boy that didn’t take long.

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francisco
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 9:01pm
I personally liked the guy with the lawnmower.

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TheBurningTruth
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 8:18pm
I wonder how many of them will use their limited generator power to tune into Chris Matthews and listen to HIM tell THEM that the storm was a godsend because it helped re-elect Barry.

One thing consistent about progressive liberals: anybody’s expendable on their way to power.

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TH30PH1LUS
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 7:11pm
When Easterners willingly elect people who take away their 2nd Ammendment Rights, mandate what size drinks they can buy, and Communists like Obama – it sort of makes it hard to feel sorry for them when they suffer the consequences of their own actions.

They gave up freedom for the promise of security and wound up with neither. And no gas to boot.

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- sexyvixen21
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 8:04pm
  Please note: that not all New Yorkers are flaming liberals. If you go to the rural areas most of us vote for Romney. (atleast the ones that work for a living) And, most of us want nycity to be seperate from us. We can’t stand those people and we refuse to donate to them or to help them out.
  
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- rickc34
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 8:09pm
  Hey Obama no solor panals or wind mills?
  
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- Winedude
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 11:07pm
  Nice. I can’t wait for another tornado or hurricane to take out one of the Confederate states…that’s where most of the morons that post on this site live! Get it’s this kind of nonsense that keeps conservatives from getting elected nationally.
  
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- Jaycen
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 3:27am
  @Winedude
  
  Welcome to 2012, where there are no Confederate states. The Civil War is over, and the south lost. Time for you to shift your brain from Neutral to 1st gear.
  
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- TH30PH1LUS
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 12:03pm
  @ WINEDUDE
  
  My statement was not about wishing natural disasters, it was about choices. America was warned not to touch the hot stove of communism, and yet Easterners have embraced it. Given up personal liberties in exchange for madness. Now (surprise!) the gub’ment that made you all sorts of promises in order to get you in bed can’t follow through. DUH.
  
  This has been going on for decades, it’s nothing new – and yet it perpetuates like a self-loathing dysfunction.
  
  As another poster mentioned, there are no “Confederate States”. By the way, those were all Democrat slave states anyway.
  
  In any case, the point stands. Amerians from MANY States showed up to offer help. Many were rejected because they weren’t Union Workers. So tell me again which one are the crazies?
  
  East Coast is not just suffering from a storm, but suffering from a self-inflicted wound.
  
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sparkyrules
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 6:50pm
Eff you President Carter,Many people have not forgot your cowardly actions in Egypt .

Anwar Sadat was a great man and by your actions,you screwed the USA

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sparkyrules
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 6:25pm
The cars look great.The only thing that’s missing is peanuts and Billy Beer.and audio,,,lots of people swearing at President Peanut.

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- sparkyrules
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 6:36pm
  My Brother in Law ,the MARINE ,was my best friend for LIFE.He took his,and left me stranded.But I learned things from him.
  
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- sparkyrules
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 6:44pm
  Vietnam Vets are the very BEST.They never complained to President Johnson or Jimmy Caughta’. They did what they had to do.
  
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- maynardb61
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 6:52pm
  Ihad to go on a long trip back then. Bought some old jerry cans to hold extra gas. They both leaked in my back seat. Told my wife “no smoking please” until I can get this gas in the fuel tank. Fun daya thanks to Jimmah.
  
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helmuit_7
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 6:20pm
Bad thing is, back then it was good to be going downhill…. Hey wait a minute…

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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 6:17pm
C’mon Blaze, you show the cars that would not have been around in the ’70′s and ask “70′s or 2012?”
Get real.

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- Wolfgang the Gray
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 9:08pm
  Exactly! When was the last time you saw a Ford LTD on the road? How many people today even know what an LTD is? Back then, gas tanks were metal, now they are plastic. I’m guessing the only people that would fail this “quiz” are the liberals. Of course, the lines in all the photos, all of it was Bush’s fault.
  
  I could not believe that of those that voted for Obama, 54% said the even the economy today is the fault of GWB. Their heads are so full of sawdust, I don’t think they will ever catch onto reality.
  
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BlackCrow
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 6:10pm
One difference, In the 70′s it was everywhere. I know I was a teenaged gas jockey ( In the days when the station employed boys to pump gas for customers) and we had trouble everywhere.

Now, New York City, Long Island, And New Jersey. No lines in Texas, in fact price is going down. You want to live somewhere where any minor (yes MINOR) disruption in infrastructure results in this sort of catastrophe don’t come crying to me. If that had been a cat 3 storm instead of a cat 1…..

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- Bids
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 7:14pm
  MINOR? This was a major storm. STFU.
  
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- circleDwagons
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 8:34pm
  What storm? Just a little wind and rain
  
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AJAYW
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 6:02pm
good idea

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Polarized America
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:52pm
I remember those Gas lines in the 70s well, i was working for a gas station. but i always had a full tank
/;-)

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- repairsea
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 6:03pm
  We had our own private gas pump station just outside town that was on an honor system. You had a key to the pump and wrote down how many gallons you pumped into your vehicle. Once a month, you got a bill that you paid. Ah the good old days.
  
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- Polarized America
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 6:26pm
  the good old days.
  yup .. i miss the cars, and the ones 10 yrs. before these pics.
  
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- dave7310
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 7:08pm
  Me too. We had a ‘Closed, no gas’ sign out front and would park our cars at the pumps in the morning and sneak out at dark and fill our cars. My ’69 Firebird was always full !
  
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soybomb315_II
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:49pm
Did you guys know Chris Christie is not allowing NJ gas stations to raise prices? What effect do you think those price controls will have?

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- Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:54pm
  It will work out swimmingly.
  
  Signed,
  
  Nixon
  
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- circleDwagons
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 8:39pm
  I thought they where getting free gas. Ithought christi and obama had already fixed everthing
  
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JUSTANOTHEROPINION
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:41pm
Aren’t you glad we have a Federal Disaster agency to manage this? You know it could be worse, if Americans took personable responsibility and helped each other there would not be so much suffering. Well, thank God we can rely on the Government!

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- Oilfield_Trash
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 6:12pm
  The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help
  
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rinosrus
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:40pm
and the point is?

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DoomsdayProphet
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:39pm
I’m sorry but, I cannot support a website that would post this anymore. No one missed one of those. If they did shame on them. Really, this is “News”? Sigh

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- Triple7
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 6:18pm
  And yet you support by responding.
  
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Ilikepeople
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:37pm
Looks like a line of locusts to me.

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- Ilikepeople
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:57pm
  Yep, you think, your brain poops, and out comes a car. Car drives down the road pooping on God’s creation, that pollutes the water, you drink it polluting your body, and mind – then you die off. Back to the drawing board.
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 6:41pm
  What? Tim, please call a doctor, you are hallucinating, now! Take only what your prescription says, no more!
  
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- Stoic one
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 6:54pm
  Hey A.T.I; do you know IHATEPEOPLE?
  
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- Tractorboy
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 1:31pm
  Fellas, you must admit, I know, I can’t wait to see what ILIKEPEOPLE posts next, it’s like reading the news then hitting the comics, some of his stuff is just plain funny. Bravo ILIKEPEOPLE on this one
  
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Larry E
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:32pm
It’s sort of interesting that in Naw’leens Bush was terrible (besides he blew up the levees) for not going down there and getting in the way, not providing everything their little hearts desired immediately from food to housing. After Sandy Glorious Leader runs up there makes a bunch of so far unfilled promises, and leaves. THAT is just okay and wonderful apparently because we’ve heard hardly a thing about Sandy compared to Katrina this long after the storm.

Don’t criticize Glorious Leader even when he’s shown to be nothing but a lying blowhard though.

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- Triple7
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 6:24pm
  Duh, Barry and Chris hugged, cried walked around and all is well. This is how government works. Especially a Marxist one.
  The media has important stuff to show us. Move on now. Here look something shiny.
  
  Another thought. I would have bet money that the other Chris would have been the one crying and fawning and giving unnecessary hugs to Dear Leader being that this disaster was good for his Leader.
  
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HKS
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:30pm
Obama is living up to his billing, beating Jimmy Carter on every front. Cementing his place in history as the worst there has ever been. Jimmy Carter is all smiles getting off that bottom rung.

“Remember Benghazi”

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- U.N.hater
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:35pm
  Comeing to a street near you soon…http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/story/20046476/2012/11/08/armored-truck-with-cameras-will-roam-st-pete-neighborhoods
  
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- Bids
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 7:17pm
  “Obama is living up to his billing, beating Jimmy Carter on every front. Cementing his place in history as the worst there has ever been. Jimmy Carter is all smiles getting off that bottom rung.”
  
  Except Obama has no control over Mother Nature. Unless you’re a HAARPtard.
  
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soybomb315_II
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:25pm
is this article going to tell people the reason why there are shortages? Or is this article just to get people fired up? C’mon Glenn, we got educating to do within your flock.

10 soybomb points to whoever can tell me why there are gas shortages in the northeast (no cheating)

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- Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:31pm
  Even worse, did you see one picture was taken so that the National Guard armory would be partially visible (tanks) in the shot with no context?
  
  Good grief.
  
  And to your point, these two situations are totally apples and oranges. Pretty stupid article really.
  
  How many soybomb points to get a Schrutte-Buck?
  
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- RedeyeBlind
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:39pm
  Electricity
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 5:40pm
  is a schrutte-buck printed on michael w scott paper?
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 6:39pm
  ROTH, What’s the problem with a couple of tanks that are obviously on display? The photo is 2012, the tank on the right is an M60A3, while the one to the left is at least an M60 variant. Probably another M60A3. Both are no longer in service with this nation. I really think the focus of the photographer were the lines of vehicles to get gas. In my opinion, not out of context at all.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 7:54pm
  nobody gets 10 soybomb points. I dont know if Roth tried to answer the question but he is overly qualified anyways. Maybe next time ya’ll
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 8:14am
  Tell us Soy.
  
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