Rogers High School - RYB Yearbook (Michigan City, IN)

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.L I l ,1 L l l l l .L x . l hwguuurvqrpn- In April oil companies posted huge profits 60-8004 over last year's ratingsh which were reflected as fuel prices almost doubled. Pri- vate gas-station owners, however. couldn't hang on as many went broke and went out of business Uower ler. In the end. the energy crisis became the energy pinch, and we were left with only memories and 61c per gallon.

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Turn down . . . slow down . . . turn off Early in the year a new expression crept into daily conversation: energy crisis. It soon be- came an overworked cliche as the news media warned of oncoming hardships. As fuel sup- plies supposediy dwindled and the Arabs cut off exports to the United States. the cry went out to conserve energy . PreSIdent Nixon appeared on television one cold Winter eve- ning, and the effect of the crisis became .tper- fectly clear . He asked the country to turn down to 68 and slow down to 55: while Henry Kissinger played petroleum politics with King Faisal. Back on the home front independ- ent truckers struck to protest high prices and low speed limits tupper rightt. Those of us with patriotic fathers grabbed a sweater and added another blanket. Sweatshirts. coats and even mittens appeared in classrooms as the school system initiated its program for conserving fuel tlower rightt. Those who had wanted 16 years to own their own cars had to wait a bit more e in line at the gas pump. Consequently bikes tmiddlei and economy cars became more popular and more expensive. Week- end trips out of town and 'Sunday drives' were curtailed when gas stations closed on Sunday tupper lefty

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