#gas rationing

[newyorkthegoldenage]

May 17, 1942 was the first Sunday of gas rationing. Here, a lone automobile stops at the toll gates of the Holland Tunnel.

Photo: Joe Caneva for the AP via News19

[stone-cold-groove]

Stamp out black markets... with your ration stamps. Pay no more than legal prices. Office of Price Administration poster - 1943.

[electronicsquid]

Sorry No Gas To Day

(Marie Hansen. 1942)

[yesterdaysprint]

The Ottawa Journal, Ontario, June 27, 1942

[newyorkthegoldenage]

This motorist could get plenty of water and air if he wished, but no gasoline, August 3, 1941. He pulled into this station, asked the attendant to “fill 'er up,” but was told that it was closed, observing the blackout that shut down 100,000 stations on the east coast at 7 p.m., to conserve petroleum products.

Photo: John Rooney for the AP via U.S. News & World Report

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Traffic on Fifth Avenue dropped off to a trickle on May 17, 1942, as the restricted sale of gasoline due to the war curtailed all use of automobiles except when absolutely necessary. Usually jammed with vehicles, the avenue was almost void of cars at 12 noon when this photo as taken from St. Patrick’s Cathedral. The looks north toward 50th Street and Central Park.

Photo: Charles Kenneth Lucas for the AP

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The "Peace Express" waits on line in Brooklyn, July 5, 1942.* Cars and trucks trying to get gasoline when it was rationed due to the war. Many stations were out of gas. The gentleman in front looks to be in extreme pain.

*New Yorkers always say "on line" rather than "in line."

Photo: Weegee for PM via Int'l Center of Photography

[newyorkthegoldenage]

An automobile, evidently parked “for the duration” in a lot at 67th Street and Columbus Avenue, acquires a new front grille—a leafy, climbing vine, July 8, 1942. Weeds, too, are sprouting from the tires. Gas was rationed during the war, due not to a shortage of fuel, but to a shortage of rubber.

Photo: Matty Zimmerman for the AP via Newsbeast