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As Reagan's first Executive Order, he repealed all oil and gas allocation and price controls.

The chronic gas lines disappeared literally overnight, and never came back.

I remember that day well.

He also campaigned on states rights to win over southern whites racists, and he ignored the AIDS epidemic, because his supporters thought it was God’s punishment for homosexuals.

Funny thing, I didn't any trouble finding gasoline on January 19, 1981.

There were gas allocations at the time, too. Those allocations resulted in a patchwork of gluts and shortages across the country.

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