Posted on 09/25/2008 7:23:52 AM PDT by Between the Lines
No gas nowhere.
Really bad in Asheville.
Oklahoma credit card time yet ?
All that text dedicated to describing the symptoms but not a single sentence to tell us what caused the shortage?
McCain wants to DRILL and the Demoncrats don't.
Demoncrats ENJOY seeing you in pain - financial or otherwise. Then they have CONTROL over you through the crisis's they create, by choice.
Why are there lines and shortages in NC? Are they more directly impacted by the oil issues off the Texas coast than we are here in Michigan? Heck we’re the ones job and industry losses.
I think these shortages in the southeast & midwest may be more responsible for Obama’s swoon than anything else. It’d explain why we haven’t seen a bounce for Obama in the battleground polls, even though it’s been about a week and half now since he started regaining in the national polls.
That was my question, too. There's plenty of gas around here and the price has dropped about 10-15 cents the past couple weeks.
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) A gas shortage that's frustrating drivers in the Southeast has prompted a community college in North Carolina to cancel classes for the rest of the week.
Officials say an increasing number of the 25,000 commuter students at several campuses of Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College aren't showing up.
A spokeswoman for the college in western North Carolina says even professors are calling to say they're stuck at home.
Drivers throughout much of the Southeast have been scrambling to find gas since Hurricane Ike shut down or reduced work at more than a dozen refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast. Some stations don't have gas to sell, while others report long lines.
North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley says more gas is headed to the state.
It’s got to be localized. Plenty of gas in the Kansas City area, and our prices have been drifting lower.
Did NC adopt an emergency plan that froze the price of gasoline like some other southern states?
This reminds me of the 1970s and why I am more than happy to pay the market going price for gas.
We have been asking that question for many days now. We are told the pipeline is running at only 85%, but that is normal in the off peak seasons.
The government excells at creating economic problems, doesn’t it? Perhaps some taxpayer-funded scheme, or additional layers of regulation would alleviate the pain. No?
Who says y'all can't go home again?
Part of the fallout from Hurricane Ike, gas deliveries in some areas of the Southeast are way down. At times as many as 90% of the gas stations in the area where I live, Marietta Georgia (northwest suburb of Atlanta), have been out of gas. A lot of the blame initially was assigned to people ‘topping up’, but as time has gone on it’s pretty plain there’s a serious gas shortage in many areas.
In Asheville, they are Bolshies, believe me when I say there is a whole segment of Ashevegas that is quite happy that more people are taking the bus and driving less.
Asheville is a Wacky Liberal Strong Hold, they like to call themselves “San Francisco of the East”...
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