Posted on 08/31/2005 7:23:20 PM PDT by Rebelbase
Raleigh, NC -- Though the Labor Day weekend is approaching, North Carolina's governor wants you to cut back on your driving. Mike Easley says gas stations across the state haven't been resupplied since Sunday, and are starting to run low on fuel.
The stations usually keep a five- to seven-day supply on hand. But Gulf Coast fuel supplies have been cut off by Hurricane Katrina. Roughly 90 percent of North Carolina's gas comes from pipelines that originate in Louisiana and go through storm-ravaged areas in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
Easley has prohibited all non-essential travel by state government workers, and asks private citizens to do the same.
Meanwhile state officials have given permission to stations with old gas pumps to measure fuel by the half-gallon. That's because the older pumps can't compute prices higher than two-dollars and 99-cents.
And Attorney General Roy Cooper wants consumers to let his office know if they seen any price-gouging.
NC ping.
Well Colonial said they started back up today, but only at 25%.
http://www.colpipe.com/press_release/pr_73.asp
we are going to see a LOT of stories like this in the next week.
We all need to keep our heads, conserve if we have too, but we cannot panic.
I'll be sitting @ home for the next 5 days except for a quick 10 mile roundtrip tomorrow morning!
Lottery! (That's Easley's answer to everything)
Sorry to tell you, it's not just NC that's about out of Gas. THe terminals around Arkansas are all reporting dry or less than 1 day away from it. Pipelines are not flowing.
Agree with you on there being no need to panic - (of course not) - Though the idea of telling the Country to conserve is moving to the fast lane of a recession -
This is a decades old problem in the making (that is first and foremost) - However GWB has done a terrible job with regard to this issue in the past 4 years (and I am as big a fan as GWB as one can be) -
He should have released oil from SPR 10 months ago (in order to keep the spec market more in line) - He should have been championing (and demanding) a repeal of many of the Federal gas taxes (for a period of time), he should have been pressuring the EPA on reducing the number of differing formulations (long ago!), he should have been putting much more pressure on OPEC since day one in office (yet in 2000, 2001 and 2002 OPEC CUT PRODUCTION!).
I just filled up right on the border between NC and SC - Had to wait 45 min for a fuel truck to JUST SHOW UP - They were out of gas...with well over 75 cars blocking the parking lot waiting for the gas truck to arrive. (a la Jimmy Carter days!)
Wow, I didn't realize things were that bad here. I guess I'm lucky I could walk to work if I absolutely had to.
You sir have character and wisdom, those that do not will panic. The feeding frenzy has begun.
This too will pass.
I'm STOCKING UP ON AMMO!
People will panic. Just as they did when Carson was discussing Carter's manipulating the gasoline supply logistics in the 70s.
Carson JOKED about a "growing shortage of toilet paper."
The next day, the department stores' shelves were cleaned out of toilet paper.
If people today are paying $2.99 for a gallon of gasoline, then they are obviously "willing" to pay that much for a gallon of gasoline. Eliminating the 18-cent Federal tax on gasoline will not drive prices down to $2.81 -- it will simply mean the supplier collects more money on his $2.99 sale than he used to.
With the price of gas we've already been reduced to essential driving. I have to put in over 30 miles per day between work and school. I'm gonna need more gas to keep my job.
Everybody slow down on the freeways and combine trips. They try and convince your employers that you can be just as effective for them by working at home 1 or 2 days a week... at least until this passes.
it will, I am sure.
Thankfully I haven't seen any panicking in Ohio yet. But we aren't really running out of gas here either.
Totally agree with you, and let me add a few more: Modern "planning" and "zoning" have forced automobile dependence by having all the houses over here and all the stores over there. The good old fashioned small town where there were houses mixed with small grocery stores, etc, allowed people to leave the car at home.
Plus when I was growing up there were three different dairies that delivered milk, orange juice, butter and cheese twice a week and at least one bakery that did the same. No one ran to the nearest minimart when snow was forecasted because there were no minimarts and all your "bread and milk" needs would come on schedule since the trucks had chains. So instead of one truck trip now we have beaucoup car trips.
O yes, since schools are beginning...we had neighborhood schools and we WALKED. Much less childhood obesity in those days.
Will Jon Edwards keep his private jet in the hanger? Or does he even live in NC anymore?
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