All that text dedicated to describing the symptoms but not a single sentence to tell us what caused the shortage?
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.
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.
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”...
Yea, I wondered that myself. Why is there a shortage? There is ample gas in the US, what’s going on in NC to cause this?
Refinery shutdown for Gustav and Ike put kinks in the hose. But we definitely need a bigger hose, and full.
This Week In Petroleum {lowest gasoline stock level in 40 years}
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2089437/posts
Also a fire temporarily shut down the only pipeline serving the greater area. The fire would have been no big deal except stock level were already very low.