[Jabba the Nutt]

My wife told me about a run on gasoline in Mt Pleasant, Michigan, pretty far from the Gulf of Mexico. She said that someone from Jackson, Michigan, said that gas would go up to $6 bucks a gallon tomorrow. There were lines at all the gas stations in town.

Who says people don't respond to price signals? I filled up in Dallas, TX today, a town with a lot of evacuees from Houston, for $3.59 a gallon. No panic here, with more reason for a run.

[Coldwater Creek]

Doesn’t matter how far you are from the Gulf. It’s the wholesale cost that is driving the price up.