1979 GASOLINE SHORTAGE

SEASHORE GAS SHORTAGE

1979

Sam Vitiello , 42 year old butcher form Moscow, Pennsylvania, that's a small village near

Scranton, drove the 250 some miles to the seashore and ran smack into the gas shortage. He spent

one whole morning of his weeks vacation  finding an open station and waited in line for forty minutes to get a pump.

Reports of two or thee block gas station lines may just frighten tourist from coming to the

seashore this summer.

For the past two weeks service station operators in the resorts of Ocean City, Fenwick Island,

Bethany Beach and Rehoboth Beach, have watched with frustration as the gasoline lines at their

stations grow. The say everyone's mad,  all upset, because they heard everyone says “come on down, there is gas here” , and when they get here, there are the lines.

Ocean City Mayor, Harry Kelley, has promised all summer that his resort will have gas to get everyone back home and he did not 'back down'. Yesterday , the city opened a station from 5 pm to

8 pm at 32^nd Street and Coast Highway. “We have 64000 gallons and we will be open until the

2^nd of August.

Source: Washington, D. C., Evening Star , 27 July 1979