But most is held back, and the result is the gasoline lines.

"It's very important not to have gasoline lines at service stations."

American attitudes toward energy have changed since the 1970's, when gasoline lines and high prices gave sacrifice a bad name.

One time the car caught fire because of a hole in the gasoline line.

That difference makes the risk of a return to gasoline lines seem more remote than in the mid-1970's, when imports last moved above 40 percent.

In northern Iraq, some gasoline lines are three days long.

I want to get the leak in this gasoline line out,' he explained.

By August 2001, gasoline lines disappeared throughout much of the country.

And some people have started to whisper about gasoline lines by spring.

To adults whose ideas about energy were formed on the gasoline lines of the 70's that may be a new notion.