IranThere was more than just one station destroyed in the violence as the news reports suggested... There were several stations torched.
But......
United States
Gas stations abandoned during the fuel crisis in the winter of 1973-74 were sometimes used for other purposes. This station at Potlatch, Washington, west of Olympia was turned into a religious meeting hall.
The 1973-1974 gas shortages in the US were mostly because OPEC members decided not to ship any petroleum to the US and some western European nations because of our support for Israel during the Yom Kippur War.
I remember some thefts, some fist fights and lotsa swearing, but for what ever reason, I do not remember rioting and gas stations being burned.
