Katrina's Gulf of Mexico Wreckage May Spark $100 Oil (Update2)
Posted on 08/31/2005 5:43:25 PM PDT by M. Espinola
Well you must not have minimum mark-up laws like we do here in Wisconsin. If someone wanted to undercut their competitor by $.40/gal. they'd be fined and put out of busness. Ah, the life in a Blue state.
For those in the SE, there apparently is a major pipeline that crosses the northern gulf coast. While there does not appear to be damage to the pipline, you have to have electricity to move the product along and that is something lacking right now. They better get that thing going.
Katrina's Gulf of Mexico Wreckage May Spark $100 Oil (Update2)
I can't believe this. I am also upset at seeing pictures from New Orleans and Biloxi. I see police driving by people who have no food and no water. Where is the leadership? I think those of us close to New Orleans. We in Atlanta are not that far should get together water, food and get as close as we can to help these people. I can not imagine what Gov. Barbour is thinking...there should be martial law and tons of food pouring into affected areas.
It's already going. We got gas last night out on the east side of Atlanta for 2.99 (89 octane) but the pumps were going dry because of this crazy panic buying. When Colonial gets the pipeline up to 100% things'll settle down again.
That is just fabulous news. Most people cannot grasp the enormity of this event. We have got to do a lot of things differently.
I hate to admit it, but I'd gladly pay $4 a gallon for gas if I could find some gas to buy. I topped off on Sunday, but it's almost gone now due to huge traffic jams, gas lines, a few trips to work, and trips to numerous grocery stores to try to find non-perishable food while our power was out. I'm stuck at home now and can't even go to work because I don't have gas and there's no public transportation. I think the situation here will improve as power is restored and IF the news media will quit fanning the flames of panic.
I can't really even explain why that particular gas station a few hundred yards down the road was cheaper -- it's usually the most god-awful expensive place around! From my trusty Google search, I only see that Wisconsin has minimum markup laws, but there may be others. New York sure doesn't (but the scenario I described from yesterday is completely irregular as all of those gas stations are typically within a dime of each other).
All morning on these threads I've joked about how I could stand to lose a few pounds. We have a couple of cans of beans, 1 can of soup, 1 can of tomatoes, 1 can of tomato sauce, and about 1/2 cup of uncooked rice. I figure we can live on that for about four days, maybe more. According to the city officials I talked to this morning, there isn't going to be gas in plentiful supply here for the foreseeable future. They also won't let you buy gas in a can, because so many people are doing that and then charging $100 for a can of gas.
Please don't misunderstand -- I realize how very blessed I am. However, as the gas runs out and people start to get hungry around here, I fear for what is going to happen to us and the many storm refugees living in shelters in central Mississippi.
Being stranded is a helpless, frightening feeling even in non-emergency conditions.
Thanks for your concern. I'm really okay. I have a wheelbarrow and a gas can, and if things get really desperate, I can walk to a gas station. The nearest one is about 7 miles away, but they still don't have electricity there, so I'm just going to try to be patient and hope that the situation improves. I'm sure it will. I wish I could say the same for those poor souls in New Orleans. I'm watching now and it is breaking my heart.
It's truly awful, isn't it? 9-11 was so sudden it had a numbness about it-- this is like watching your own leg being sawed off, an inch at a time, and it keeps getting worse and worse.
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