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To: ncdrumr

Question? Are Americans the ones making this worse then what it oughta be? Why are folk rushing to the gas pumps when they should just chill and wait for things to settle. I heard folks who have pumped extra gas in cans and are storing them in their homes...WHAT GIVES? I think the mediaWHORES have finally succeed in scaring the folk off! Americans NEED to come together and show solitary with one another. The Katrina looters have already shown the world how despicable we can get when confronted with a calamity! SO SAD! We, as Americans are better than that!! :(


36 posted on 08/31/2005 1:47:53 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: RoseofTexas
Why are folk rushing to the gas pumps when they should just chill and wait for things to settle.

Well, because I was out and not sure I had enough to make it home on. :-)

55 posted on 08/31/2005 1:55:02 PM PDT by atomicpossum (Replies should be as pedantic as possible. I love that so much.)
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To: RoseofTexas
I heard folks who have pumped extra gas in cans and are storing them in their homes...WHAT GIVES?

You're going to be hearing stories about panic-driven people running out and trying to store hundreds of gallons of gasoline in plastic milk jugs and bleach bottles in their houses, and then one night something will happen and the house will go up like a bomb.

63 posted on 08/31/2005 1:57:37 PM PDT by CFC__VRWC ("Anytime a liberal squeals in outrage, an angel gets its wings!" - gidget7)
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To: RoseofTexas

"Why are folk rushing to the gas pumps when they should just chill and wait for things to settle."

Good question. Why don't they have all that stuff already? One of the aspects of being personally prepared (other than being called nuts and paranoid!) is that you don't add to the problem when things DO get a little bad.

That said, and ignorant of the number of pipelines serving the east coast, I'm hoping that there are several other lines coming across further north that can handle more of the load.


70 posted on 08/31/2005 2:01:01 PM PDT by geopyg ("It's not that liberals don't know much, it's just that what they know just ain't so." (~ R. Reagan))
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To: RoseofTexas
Why are folk rushing to the gas pumps when they should just chill and wait for things to settle.

I personally rushed to the station because I was on empty. My local Fred Meyer had premium for $2.73, but the lines were too long. I went to the much higher-priced Shell, where I paid $3.09 for premium, but there were no lines. That was the most expensive fill-up of my life, but I can adapt and overcome.
100 posted on 08/31/2005 2:47:08 PM PDT by andyk (Go Matt Kenseth!)
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