Gas lines are a relic of the '70s and will stay that way. In fact, there is no energy crisis and there is little reason to expect there will be.
Conservation is a big part of the reason why.
While California's blackouts are in the headlines, the Golden State's problems are local and, indeed, do not even cover all of California. Los Angeles, for example, is unaffected because it has its own municipal power service. As a country, we have demanded more and more energy. But the facts are something different. The massive decline in energy use relative to economic output was not a function of price increases.