Thinking on this, I think what has changed is what people buy, vs what they need. Let's take the late 60s, early 70s before the oil squeeze. Families were lar

Thinking on this, I think what has changed is what people buy, vs what they need. Let's take the late 60s, early 70s before the oil squeeze. Families were larger. More kids. People would buy station wagons. Large, lots of seating. But I think people would buy more what they needed, not just big "because". Now I see modern families, with one or at best 2 kids, with huge SUVs. Hmm.