To conserve fuel, Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter has ordered state troopers to drive slower and go on fewer highway patrols. On the Pennsylvania and Ohio Turnpikes, gas stations are allotting a maximum of ten to twelve gallons of gas to each customer. From Martha's Vineyard, Mass., where panicky residents begin queuing up at gas pumps at 6 a.m., to Los Angeles, where some stations are getting 51¢ a gallon, the long-feared gasoline shortage is finally making itself felt.
Last week the American Automobile Association reported that only 64% of the stations it monitors were operating normallydown from 75% the previous...
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