Posted on 08/31/2005 2:26:45 PM PDT by Pyro7480
WSB, via Hannity, reporting that a urban legend is going around about gas shortages, causing a panic in people, who are rushing to gas stations. Reporter said regular gas prices at one station was above $4.
*L* .. so did I
But worse case scenario ???
I have to *gasp* walk to the grocery story
I think I'll survive
CNN just reported that gas was nearly 4.99 in some stations in Atlanta. They said stations are rationing people to ten bucks worth of gas.
Blamed the culprit on a shut off east coast gas pipeline.
I seriously wonder if this is true?
A coupla rolexes on your arms will fix that right up.
I'm in the Savannah area, and I passed at least one station on the way home that was out of gas.
Regular was between 2.47 and 2.69 this morning; it seems to be uniformly 2.99 this afternoon.
I also passed what looked like two gasoline trucks, but they were not major brands, so the tankers could have been carrying a different fuel, or they could have been empty.
FWIW
Expect the 2010's to be the boom time of new ways to extract energy.
Remember the fears on 9/11?
Thank god! The liberal single-mom mobiles will be off the road.
The face is cartoonish, but the bounce is sooo realistic!
According to Georgia Public Radio, that part is true, and the governor is urging people not to panic and saying the pipeline should be operational again by the weekend. That report said that 80% of Georgia's gasoline was delivered via the pipeline (which I found a bit hard to believe, but that is what they said.)
Well they DID panic in our small NE GA town and all the gas staions are now OUT OF GAS.
I heard that last night. Brother in law called. Hung up the phone and said "Nah--but honey, let's go fill up just in case." So we did.
You should see it here. People are acting like soylent green was being handed out. Literally 40 deep at the pumps and sticking out into major roadways causing accidents.
I'm going to ignore all the posts and just watch that graphic for a while...
spoke to a gas station operator in L.A. Apparently Union 76 stations have been warned about allocations out here...not sure about other brands.
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