Effect: Creepy since it was hard sometimes to find a station with enough gas and not too long of lines. Mostly you just had to be a little patient. That was my experience. But some people got angry, too. Some physical altercations ensued at some stations. People filled up gas cans when they filled up cars. There was supposed to be limits on how many gas cans someone could get at a time, too.

Effect: Rolling blackouts are not necessary however as public saves enough to get through the summer. Recommendations are thermostats get turned up 2-3 degrees until the new transformer is installed.

Effect: This was inconvenient to do this boiling-good thing it wasn't summer. Real problems for restaurants and eateries! The businesses and many individuals bought bottled water. So, then, bottled water just vanished from store shelves and stayed vanished until this was over.

When I think of decline in living standards/civilization under whatever circumstances, I think of these three above events happening simultaneously and lasting forever. Not fun.