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I'm gonna keep mine and pull it out when I want to revisit the time I got on 95 in New Hampshire the day after they announced everything is shut down.
Just me.
Normally, it's thousands of cars.
Just me, lol. I was laughing my ass off and just kept saying, "No way, man. No fucking way." That was so wild.
I just remember gas being 1.99 and thinking how crazy that was.
And they were still bullshitting us at that price. They hit negative numbers. Were paying oil barrel buyers to store it. Negative prices.
Mid to late 90's in Georgia (US) when I heard OPEC would start limiting barrel sales. We were at $0.63/gallon. Knew I'd never see that again. The days of pocket/couch change road trips.
Crude isn't RBOB. Converting crude oil (which went negative) into automobile gas (which didn't) is a process that takes time/work, and not everyone has the infrastructure to do it. Crude also loses the ability to convert to RBOB in time, so if you buy and can't convert or use it otherwise in time, it's wasted money. Crude went negative but RBOB didn't, and auto gas companies were making only their usual profit off of it at the time.
Yep. Essential healthcare worker here. Spent every day feeling like I was living in an apocalypse movie during my commute. Normal 30+ min commute was 22 minutes.
Los angeles freeways were empty! It was beautiful. Everyone on them were flying at 80mph with zero accidents.
Yeah, it was eerie. I was "essential" and driving in during what would normally be rush hour and only seeing two cars the whole way was wild.
I lived in a major city at the time, the sidewalks were insanely empty. I was the only person for 3 blocks at one point, blocks that are usually absolutely packed. When everyone started coming back, and I lost my peaceful big city… >:[
Same here. I was alone on the 405 by LAX. It was surreal.
Oh man, I can't imagine. I live in the south. Learned to drive in Atlanta. I can't even imagine
Having driven in Atlanta, all I can say is I'm sorry.
When I was 15 and learning to drive my dad lived in Atlanta. I went there for a visit once and he had me drive there, and everywhere for the whole week. My first experience driving on an interstate included going 90 around the perimeter full of other cars going faster than me and requiring getting from one onramp and moving over 4 lanes to get tot he next exit in half a mile. It was terrifying and I definitely cut waaayyy too many people off driving into town and I'm shocked I didn't cause a wreck. That was always his teaching style, just throwing me into the deep end. It's still burned into my brain as one of the most dangerous things I've done (And that's a long list). But, when I had to go into my drivers ed class the following school year I was the only one who was at all comfortable on the interstate and one of the best drivers in the class.
I don't recommend teaching things that way and I'd never do that with my children, but damn was it effective since I didn't die. Not dying was probably a close call though.
The motorways of Atlanta are comically bad. Everyone is cutting eachother off and going 40+ mph over the speed limit, traffic jams galore. If you have to go somewhere that's 5 miles away in Atlanta, it is going to probably take you 30 minutes at best, but most likely an hour.
That's how driving on 90 or Route 9 east into Boston was. Normally a nightmare but on Route 9 I'd hit green lights the whole way.
1 hour commute turned into 15-20 minutes