Baghdad continued to struggle with a gasoline shortage on Monday.

In 1974, he recalled, there was a gasoline shortage and people "were not going away."

But there were also difficult moments in the 1970's, when gasoline shortages led to long lines at service stations.

This is not the gasoline shortage of the 70's.

If the current gasoline shortage were not bad enough, now the city's gas stations themselves are in shorter supply.

Auto racing got some practice dealing with that during the two major gasoline shortages of the 1970's.

The justification for the speed limit was to save fuel during the gasoline shortage.

Because of the gasoline shortage, federal law required filling stations to be closed on Sunday.

"That's a little like saying there is no gasoline shortage, buy and use as much as you want."

He is losing support in his traditional base, the north, which has suffered more than other regions from gasoline shortages.