'The way it was on Thursday, July 20, 2000' @$2/gal
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/watch-people-react-to-gas-prices-14-years-ago/ Flashback: Watch people react to gas prices 14 years ago By CBS NEWSCBS NEWS December 18, 2014 [video flash (same 30sec of EV1 shown in instagram video clip below) http://instagram.com/p/ww5LjOTUtw/?modal=true cbseveningnews 3 hours ago #TBT to July 2000 when drivers were complaining about paying $2.00 for gas. We dug up this John Blackstone report to put today’s gas and oil prices in perspective. Blackstone talked with politician Gavin Newsom (now the Lt. Gov. of California) about his purchase of an electric vehicle. Can you name the model? We'll update with the answer after Manuel Bojorquez shows us how the current drop in cost is putting oil industry jobs at risk. #throwbackthursday #wayitwas #gas #america images https://igcdn-photos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xaf1/t51.2885-15/10844199_1591903554373400_533619557_n.jpg (showing ~$2/gal station prices) http://cbsnews2.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2014/12/18/6e0ceb56-c532-4638-8bd3-feeef5d559cd/thumbnail/620x350/1acecf286f0c8e3dc6c2cc986e21d249/high-gas-prices-2000-hnc91frame2160.jpg John Blackstone, left, asks Gavin Newsom about his electric vehicle in a report from July 20, 2000. CBS NEWS ] Jump into your DeLorean and set the date for July 20, 2000. We dug up a story from that day by CBS News correspondent John Blackstone, examining the "roller coaster" ride that gas prices were on at the time. It makes for an interesting comparison to the situation currently unfolding. Oil prices have tumbled in recent weeks leading to photos like the one below showing gas at under $2.00. That price created a sticker shock on our Instagram page - in a good way, considering many Americans haven't seen these prices in years. CBS News correspondent Manuel Bojorquez has been covering the impact the price of oil is having on different parts of the economy. Tonight, he'll report from New Orleans on how the price drop is putting thousands of oil industry jobs at risk. Fuel costs lower for airlines but consumer savings missing Auto industry lifted by drop in oil prices Flash back in time and you'll see that Americans were complaining about having to pay $2.00 a gallon. "It takes a lot out of your wallet," one San Francisco driver complained to Blackstone. "We won't take a driving vacation this summer," another told him. At the time, gas consumption had dropped nationwide for the first time in five years. But it was on the uptick, thanks in part to a growing economy and the fact that "Americans have embraced SUVs with their hungry gas tanks," according to Blackstone. Play VIDEO As gas prices fall, U.S. automakers see lift in sales So what were the solutions, if any, at the time? Blackstone heard at least one idea from Gavin Newsom, a local politician in San Francisco who is now the Lieutenant Governor of California. [In the video] John Blackstone, left, asks Gavin Newsom about his electric vehicle in a report from July 20, 2000. CBS NEWS Newsom, who had railed against high gas prices, decided to do something about it by buying an electric car -- GM's Jetsons-looking EV 1. The purchase was his way of sticking it to the gas companies. "Yeah forget it, tough luck," Newsom said. "I'm sick of the rhetoric, the excuses, the supply and demand models, and world supply of oil and I'm sick of paying upwards of $2.00 a gallon." Blackstone called Newsom's new ride "an unusual vehicle" before stating that many more would show up on California's roads thanks to a new law that would require at least 200,000 low emission vehicles for sale by 2003. But Blackstone was quick to point out that gas guzzling vehicles were still king of the road, leading him to make a prediction that turned out to be spot on. "Still, with more than 200 million gas burning cars in America, gas prices are likely to keep driving us crazy for years to come." And that's the way it was on Thursday, July 20, 2000. 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