Description: Leader: P1 Gas Giveaway #6738 12/10/73; Man inspects a pump at a gas station. Interview with a gas station owner about making up for mistakenly overcharging people by giving away free gasoline. Interviews with customers waiting in line. Roger Goodrich reporter standup about Uncle Russ's gas giveaway.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/10/1973
Description: Leader: P1 Gas Hike Reaction #10072 - 30 Sept 74; Silent footage of car at a gas stations; gasoline prices; signs for gan stations; a man filling up a car. Interview with a woman in her car about a proposed gas tax. Arch Mcdonald reporter standup about a proposed gas tax increase. Interview with Edward Ted Kennedy about the gas tax. Interviews with customers and gas station owners about the possible effect of an increase in the gas tax. Reporter outtakes. More footage of the on the street interviews and the interview with Senator Kennedy.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 09/30/1974
Description: Leader: P2 Gas Plant (Goodrich) #10238 10/17/74; Interview with a man from Boston Gas. Roger Goodrich reporter standup about the power plant in Everett Massachusetts. Men in hard hats tour the power plant; men working in the plant. More on the interview with the man from Boston Gas about expected energy prices. SIlent b-roll of the power plant.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 10/17/1974
Description: Leader: P1 Gas Rationing #6836 - 20 Dec 73; Silent footage of cars getting gas; attendants greet customers; close up on pumps. Interview with a customers and gas station attendants about the 10 gallon gas ration. Chet Curtis reporter standup. More b-roll of the gas station, interviews, and reporter outtakes.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/20/1973
Description: "Leader: "P2 Gas Report #7210 2/4/74"; A person serves coffee to people waiting in line in their cars for gas. "Sorry no Gas" and other signs at stations about their hours and customers. Interview with a man who runs a Howard Johnson restaurant near a gas station on his idea to serve coffee to people waiting for gas. More silent b-roll of the line for gas, people being served coffee in their cars, and gas pumps."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 02/04/1974
Description: Silent b-roll of cars waiting in line for gas at an Exxon station in Stoneham. Sign that reads "Simon says no gas till Feb. 1st." A gas station employee puts a stick down into the ground to check the levels in the gas tank. Reporter standup about how gas stations in the Boston area have a gas shortage due to new federal regulations. Footage of gas pumps with sign that reads, "No Gas today, Service Bays are open" with reporter voice over. Interview with Robert Stone, Vice President of the Independent Garage Owners of Massachusetts. Followed by cuts. Footage includes more of the interview with Robert Stone, b-roll footage of gas stations, idle workers at stations that have run out of gas, and long lines of cars at other stations. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/22/1974
Description: "Leader: "P2 Gas Search #7122 01/25/74"; Interviews with people in cars at a gas station about how much gas they have in the tank and how long they have been looking for an open station. Bob Windsor reporter standup about customers searching for open gas stations. Silent b-roll of gas stations, "out of gas signs", and gas trucks. More interviews with customers and an oil truck driver."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/25/1974
Description: Interview with the gas station owner about the motivation behind the firebombings and why he is open 24 hours. Interview with another man from the neighborhood. Shot of the gas pumps. Mix of sound and silent. This is 1 of 2 reels. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Service Station Firebombings - A Codman Square gas station has been firebombed three times in last three months... racially motivated... the owner is taken to sleeping at the station."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/24/1976
Description: People in the State House for a hearing. Shots of logos on shirts from several different gas stations and b-roll of the hearing. Testimony from a service station owners about supplier owned gas stations, and pressures to sell more gas. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 03/20/1975
Description: "Leader: "P2 Gas Station Protest #7318 2/14/74"; Silent b-roll of a gas station. Interview with a station operator (Giordano). Roger Goodrich reporter standup about government gas regulations causing confusion with gas station owners. Interviews with other gas station workers. More b-roll of cars waiting in line at a gas station, license plates, and reporter outtakes. Gas station employees express confusion and disagreement with fuel conservation regulations."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 02/14/1974