I work in oil and gas marketing. I am not a high-powered consultant type, but one thing I have noticed over the years is that the market reacts just as strongly to an EXPECTATION of a disruption of supply as it does to an actual disruption. I’ve told my wife to make sure she keeps her gas tank full.
Thank you for letting me know that. I actually did not realize that was the case. Therefore I will keep that in mind and remind myself to not take gas for granted ever- you especially shouldnt be doing that when we dont even have an adult in the white house to control our oil availability.
Luckily for me, I will be working as a graduate student in small towns in Virginia and Tenesee where people do have some sort of responsibility and self reliance and so oil shortages and gas hikes wont cause the quite clusterf__k we will see on other parts of the nation where people are used to having govt clean up after them.