[Thermalseeker]

There were long lines at gas stations in the Chattanooga area yesterday afternoon. Some I saw had 30+ cars waiting and stations were limiting purchases to 10 gallons. I saw one station at a Wal-Mart that had cars lined out into the street waiting to buy gas. Somebody should tell this author that Chattanooga isn't on the evacuation route......

[murron]

I live in a suburb of New Orleans, and went to the movies last night. On my way to the movies, there were two Chevron stations posting Regular at 3.59 gal. On my way home from the movies, one station was $3.69 and the other was $3.79. In just two hours, the prices had jumped, one by 10 cents, the other by twenty cents.

[kcm.org]

Duh, what gives???

Two months ago, with just the mere Weather Channel mention of the possibilities that hurricanes might strike during hurricanes would cause crude oil to set new highs and hours later that day gasoline dealers would hike prices 10-20 cents/gal?

[Let's Roll]

Remember that guy* who said God must be a dim because he was sending a hurricane during the GOP convention? Well, looks to me like hurricanes are definitely reminding people to:

DRILL HERE! DRILL NOW!

(*incidentally he's married to the SC dim chairwoman who yesterday said that Palin's primary qualification seemed to be not having an abortion.)