Posted on 05/11/2021 8:52:53 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Governor Ron DeSantis Tuesday evening declared a state of emergency over Florida’s gas shortage after “hackers” caused the Colonial Pipeline to shut down.
DeSantis said the state’s Attorney General is on the lookout for price gouging.
According to Fox 13, between 1/3 and 1/2 of gas stations in Florida are out of gas.
Long lines and gas shortages are being reported in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.
Panic buying Escambia County caused gas prices to surge:
SKY HIGH GAS PRICES: We’ve received calls into the @weartv newsroom about this #gas station in #EscambiaCounty selling regular gas for $4.29/gallon. Within a minute of our news car showing up, it was dropped to $3.29. Check it out 👇🏼 Are you paying more at the pump? #GasShortage pic.twitter.com/ghyAnQO7f6
— Renee Beninate (@reneebeninate) May 10, 2021
Gas shortage and long lines (Biden gas lines) in Quincy, Florida:
GAS SHORTAGE: This driver recorded long lines at six gas stations in Quincy, Florida on Monday, as several southeastern states face gas shortages due to the shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline from a cyberattack. https://t.co/u6vGuawxXk pic.twitter.com/GwIhREFbOM
— CBS News (@CBSNews) May 11, 2021
Governor DeSantis’ executive order says “the disruption of Colonial Pipeline operations poses a significant and immediate threat to the continued delivery of such fuel products to the State of Florida and many other states located in the Eastern United States,” and the attack “poses a severe threat to the State of Florida and requires that immediate measures be taken to protect and to facilitate the continued delivery of such fuel products to this State, until such time as Colonial Pipeline operations have fully resumed.”
The order will also remove limits on weight for tanker trucks and allows them to travel around the clock.
Meanwhile, the Biden Admin is sitting back and doing nothing after a cyberattack affected gas distribution for 1/3 of the country.
Governor Roy Cooper also declared a state of emergency over North Carolina’s gas shortage.
However, assuming I did have a daily commute, I would rather have gas at $6.00 a gallon than no gas at $3.00 a gallon.
Gouging cannot be possible without supply.
I’m doing well enough. Good to hear from you.
And never ever use Windows to run something this important.
I wonder how much blame for this will actually rub off on
Biden.
I’m sure the media will be covering for him 100%.
Many people (commuters or merely those who needed a fillup) would not be able to afford the $6/gal gas you spoke of as their wages/budgets are geared for $3. gas.
I guess it just seems to me rather callous for people work from home or are retired and who do not need to commute to earn their livelihood to talk about free market $6 gas. The teeter-totter is broken...no supply to meet the demand.
It is dangerous as it is inflationary when we are already looking at inflation/stagflation.
Many people (commuters or merely those who needed a fillup) would not be able to afford the $6/gal gas you spoke of as their wages/budgets are geared for $3. gas.
For a few days to get by? I think you are over-stating the impact on their actual budget, vs the impact to their sense of entitlement. And again, if they are that strapped, and that limited as to options, the complete inability to obtain fuel is likely to be *far* more impactful.
Look at it this way: If it takes 2 gallons of gas per day to go to and from work, going from $3 to $6 is an extra $6 in cost. Missing even an hour of work costs more than double that. Everything is a trade-off, including risk.
If you don’t like my assumptions, use your own figures and do the calculation.
I guess it just seems to me rather callous for people work from home or are retired and who do not need to commute to earn their livelihood to talk about free market $6 gas.
The teeter-totter is broken...no supply to meet the demand.
I actually don’t believe in full-on price gouging, but I can live with $4.29. They could probably raise it to $8.29 and still run out.
WTI is today trading at 65.81.
You can guess who bought low.
An hour ago I filled my gas tank at Sunoco in NE Florida for less than $3/gallon. My tank was half empty and 4 gallons filled the tank. I love my Chevy Spark 2017. Not one problem in 4 years and has good zip.
That’s cool.
And you think we have energy independence when a Russian hacker group can shut down the nation’s biggest fuel line and the WH says “it’s not up to us, Colonial is a private company and it’s up to them whether they pay the ransom or not?”
Biden shut down the Keystone pipeline and gas prices went up
80 cents a gal here in Nashville. Now this. Biden is an idiot.
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