Edited sentence: Alas, the volatile oil markets brought prices down again in the 1980s and people quickly forgot about the troubles of the 1970s.Anyone who has lived in an old house can recall trying to find enough power outlets to run todays gazillion gadgets, are reminded of how little electricity our forebearers used.Byzantine coding in the US.Houses were better insulated, appliances became more energy efficient.It was as if the Oil Crises never happened.Sadly, in all this the option of time to convert the nation's Energy Policy was frittered away.Speed limits were raised, houses and SUVs became bigger and the number of energy using gadgets multiplied.Studies were issued, people put in wood stoves and hippies went back to the land.auto and tax classification laws created the SUV