Texas runs on gas.
Bad news for me! I didn’t fill up before the hurricane! Haven’t actually left the house either! Afraid of getting stuck in water!
Texas is dependent on Trucked gas.
Gas up as your roads are messed up.
I am in NTX and made a quick store run. Gas prices seem OK and no sign of panic prices nor buying.
Please don’t plant rumors.
Gassed up in Eastern NC today - the end of the Colonial Pipeline. So far no problem
This is why we need electric green smart cars and stuff....God bless all you Texans stuck in this madness.Wish I could still do more than praying. Stay safe all.
Bttt.
5.56mm
Not totally unexpected from major Hurricane impacts:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3581937/posts
Port Arthur refinery, largest in US, shuts down as Harvey floods Texas
Some others closings:
https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2017/08/28/lyondellbasell-shuts-several-houston-area.html
My sister is in Fort Worth.
She said there were long lines in the middle of the day and the price went up 40 cents while she was waiting.
OMG!!! Some DFW folks will have to stay home and have a BBQ this coming weekend. The DFW highways may think they’re being ignored. All the poor dears!!! /sarc
In fact, in solidarity with others in Texas south of DFW, the DFW folks ought to stay home this weekend, saving the state’s oil reserves so prices do not spike so much just as Houston opens back up.
In California our prices have been climbing since mid-July. They’ll stay high 10 times longer than necessary to relieve the national supply deficit, because we’re so easy to gouge out here. I doubt very little California gas crosses the state line, but the refineries use any excuse under the sun to gouge us. Easy money...
Let’s see refineries shut down? Yes.
Tanker trucks and refined gasoline storage impacted by hurricane? Yes
So even though Dallas FW wasn’t flooded the ability to get gasoline to market may create spot outages of fuel? Makes sense.
I got stuck with almost no gas when there was a huge earthquake.
After that I said to myself I will always keep it at least half full.
That went by the wayside a long time ago.
I didn’t stick with it.
It’s probably a good idea.
Congratulations! You just made SURE that they would all run out of gas.
FL. More gas than Hillary after a burrito run.
Gas Buddy does a pretty good job of tracking prices and trends and where you can get the cheapest fuel nearby.
Current trend is: Prices are RISING.
I paid $2.35 yesterday for Regular Unleaded at Kwik Trip. A half-tank cost me $20, so a full fill is back up to $40. Beats the $50 fill ups of a few years ago, but still. (Ford Escape, smallish SUV)
As with all things in life, EXPECT the best but PLAN for the worst!