Vanity: Strange thing in my town today.

vanity

[sand lake bar]

I live in a university town, not too large or small. Today (Sunday) I go out to buy gas. The first two stations I went to were closed, no gas. This never happens. The third station I went to had long lines. I passed another open station on the way home--again, long lines. I've not seen anything like this since the early 1970s.

Not drawing conclusions, just reporting.

[djf]

Ummm... Location?

Sand lake, NY?

[DogBarkTree]

Odd that 4 stations were closed for same reason.

[sand lake bar]

Central Pennsylvania

[sand lake bar]

It was two stations closed, two open but with long lines.

[mysterio]

September 13th is national gas panic day.

[Orange1998]

Plenty of gas down here in Texas and no lines. :)

[devane617]

Gas is plentiful and fairly cheap down here in Texas. I here rumors that there are so many loaded oil-tankers in the Houston off-shore anchorage with no buyers that more than a few people are getting worried.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Reminds this poster of 9-11.

Was in my car without the radio on. First indication I had of anything unusual, was (huge) lines at every single gas station.

[Need4Truth]

Could it be due to people leaving DC filling up there?

[Orange1998]

2.15 a gal at Samsclub yesterday.

[PowderMonkey]

LOL! Sounds like the 70s alright. Your first two stations probably had distribution problems. That started a panic that cascaded to the other stations around town. Everybody’s pulling in to top off the tank “JUST IN CASE!OMG!” Watch what happens after the first station runs out of supply and posts a “No Gas” sign. Panic!

[sand lake bar]

We’re about 4 hours away from D.C. I did consider that it might be football traffic. But as I said, I’ve never seen this in the 16 years I’ve lived here.

[concentric circles]

My guess would be a delivery problem, a truck out of commission, two or three drivers out with the flu and suddenly there’s a problem getting the goods to market.

[Dudoight]

Yesterday $1.39.9.....in and around town. Texas.

[Westlander]

Welcome to Michigan. Add .40 per gallon.

[sand lake bar]

Sounds reasonable. I’m happy that no one else is reporting anything similar.

[dickmc]

Changeover to less oxygenated non-Summer gasoline in the Pittsburgh air quality region is always Sept 15th.

Could it have to due with some refineries already switched over?

[Yardstick]

I’ll bet all those stations got their gas from the same supplier and that the supplier was having some kind of problem.

[sand lake bar]

You’re reassuring me that this is just an innocent glitch in the system.