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http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/29/us-iran-britain-embassy-idUSTRE7AS0X720111129

I was just thinking yesterday that I was too young to remember how the 70's felt but I'm guessing the inflation, bad economy, oil issues, etc. were probably a lot like today.

Now this...

[MustangGal]

I was pretty young, I turned ten just as the 70's rolled to an end. The big difference now is the crushing debt we have and a dying industry sector.

[Matt In Oklahoma]

They might find we are a little better prepared to take our folks back than we were then too.
I remember the gas rationing and what happened to me and my mom when I was a kid too.

[MustangGal]

They might find we are a little better prepared to take our folks back than we were then too.
I remember the gas rationing and what happened to me and my mom when I was a kid too.

I don't remember the gas rationing, was it rationed everywhere or maybe just cities? I do remember it being very expensive.

[TyrannyUnleashed]

I don't remember the gas rationing, was it rationed everywhere or maybe just cities? I do remember it being very expensive.

We lived in a small town of about 50,000, and I remember going with my dad and sitting in lines for a long time. I can't say if it was the same everywhere, but the lines were horrible where we lived.

[MustangGal]

We lived in a small town of about 50,000, and I remember going with my dad and sitting in lines for a long time. I can't say if it was the same everywhere, but the lines were horrible where we lived.

LOL Our definition of small town is NOT the same. At that time, our town was in the 2,500 range. And it is the biggest town in the county. It is around 4k now. I live in a small town of less than 350 people and I HATE living in town!

There may have been rationing, and just not enough people to form lines. :D

[Matt In Oklahoma]

You got gas by the last digit in your tag. Odd/even and you could only get gas on your day every other day. This guy flipped out on us because he needed fuel and it wasnt his day. Like me and my Mom had anything to do with it. I aint no kid no more and I dont like folks who pick on the small folks of the world neither. It woulda had a different result, guess there wernt no "men" around that day.

[TyrannyUnleashed]

LOL Our definition of small town is NOT the same. At that time, our town was in the 2,500 range. And it is the biggest town in the county. It is around 4k now. I live in a small town of less than 350 people and I HATE living in town!

There may have been rationing, and just not enough people to form lines. :D

lol... Sorry, I have lived in and around cities of over a million people for quite some time now. Growing up I thought the city (town) was big. But Since I lived in the Houston, Honolulu, Indianapolis, and Memphis (yes, we are skipping this taco stand very soon, thank goodness) area for so long, 50K people just don't seem so big anymore.

[Not_Yet_Prepped]

I don't know about the 70s but things are getting bad when "people" use pepper spray to help ensure they get the toy they want or someone gets shot over a limited supply of some new gadget or a great deal on some electronic. Did you see all the things that happened on "black friday"?

What is going to happen when fuel is rationed today?
Or inflation is so bad 90% of the population is in a bread line but there is very little bread?
Or Banks dont allow you to withdraw your money?
Or the Government figures out it really does not have money to give the hand outs any more?

#1. Be able to defend yourself
#2. Have bread so you dont have to go to the bread line
#3. Make sure you look like you dont have any bread
#4. Never be forced into a FEMA Shelter (Remember the stories of what happened at the Superdome after Katrina)

[brokedownbiker]

I joined the Army in '80 and remember that time period very well. I remember trying to buy land when interest rates were up around 18-19%, it just wasn't feasible. People in my area really felt the bite but it seemed like everyone forgot it within as couple of years and went on with their lives with no apparent thought of preparing for another downturn. That experience is what got me thinking about prepping, although it didn't seriously take root until many years later when I started raising a family.

Picture what will happen if we see 20% interest today....... it will make the late Seventies look like 'the good ole days'.

[golfroot]

I joined the Army in '80 and remember that time period very well. I remember trying to buy land when interest rates were up around 18-19%, it just wasn't feasible. People in my area really felt the bite but it seemed like everyone forgot it within as couple of years and went on with their lives with no apparent thought of preparing for another downturn. That experience is what got me thinking about prepping, although it didn't seriously take root until many years later when I started raising a family.

Picture what will happen if we see 20% interest today....... it will make the late Seventies look like 'the good ole days'.

I remember those days. My older brother needed a new house for his wife and new twins, but couldn't afford the 17% interest rate on the mortgage. Daddy bought the house for him and gave him a loan at 8%, which was a steal in those days. Of course, the old man was banking 16% on his CDs.

Sorry, but I got the lulz at one of the pics in the link to the news story. It showed a protester carrying a poster out of the British Embassy.



Jules and Vincent in the UK Embassy? ROFL!

[monkeybird]

Actually, I'd go back to the 70's right now if possible. Gas shortages were very limited to specific locations. I cannot remember being inconvenienced a single time by a gas shortage, and I was an adult back then driving my own car.

There was inflation, but most people had good jobs. Health insurance was remarkably cheap and provided by most employers. Very few were uninsured.

The one really terrible problem was the interest rate. My husband and bought a house with an interest rate of 13.9 percent! We sold the home a few years later for a big profit and bought another one at a much lower rate as the rates had fallen.

The differences is that Americans were united. We were all Americans, bound together with similar values and beliefs. There were no politically incorrect words. No educational system telling children how bad America was.

Yes, give me the 70's any day.

[crossbow]

I turned 40 in 1970 and the 70s were the best times of my life, I owned a gas station, repair and welding shop. I know that like all recessions, different places were hit at different times, just lucky that where I live, things stayed pretty good, since then the family farms shut down, the few factories closed down, what we're left with are union state jobs that just take out of the system, Calif and Ill, here we come, I'm glad that i started preparing back in the 70s.

like Monkeybird said, most people had a job and employers felt insulted if you refused their medical ins.


I'll take any point in time prior to 9/11, between the Patroit Act and the new S 1867 Bill that McCain is trying to push thru, most Americans will never know the freedoms we had.

[Matt In Oklahoma]

The differences is that Americans were united. We were all Americans, bound together with similar values and beliefs. There were no politically incorrect words. No educational system telling children how bad America was.

LOL boy I remember a whole different 70s, as a kid, like the gas shoratge assualt on me and my Mom with about 200 onlookers and zero help from the "United" ones with protests against or for everything from equal rights, womens rights, vietnam, drugs and deep divisions between long/short haired men, and lots of politcally incorrect stuff like honkey and the opposite and I do remember educators telling us in school how bad we were for the oppresion of peoples in our "so called war on communism" (sound familar "so called" war on .......) and how mass killing of all those innocent babies yadayadaya oh and also us being bad for not intergrating, like we (me a kid) had anything to do with it, and being in the forced busing program where I began a daily ritual of getting my behind handed to me by a large mass before class, while those "united" teachers with values looked on until my parents made a bold home move with that high intertest rate which forced a lower standard of living for us.
Looks much the same to me today as it did then, progression, more we try and change more we stay messed up
Yep you can keep them good ole days, they sucked for me!

[snare]

Due to the relative 'remoteness' of our location on fuel supply lines and the relative size of the population, WNC had very high gas prices for a couple weeks back a couple years ago after hurricanes hit the Gulf. Like $5+ per gallon for a week or two.

LEO were stationed at most pumps. Lines got long, things did get violent in a few places.

Luckily my sole transportation at the time was a dual sport bike with a long range tank on it that got 75 mpg. Didn't have to stop for gas once myself.

Things are gonna get bad. Prepare.