Posted on 08/31/2005 5:54:43 PM PDT by rfmad
Reports are the pipelines from LA to AL,MS,GA,NC,VA, all the way to NY are at very low capacity. Is you area out of gas yet or being rationed? What are you hearing? This will be very helpful for those who are traveling in the near future.
NY: ARM/LEG/1stBORN
Looks like plans are already made for us. Panic stricken motorists are out gobbling gasoline in cars and containers is making problems for everybody. Happened in the 70's. Panic buying is not the answer, but remaining calm and buying when you REAALLy need to is. I believe that rationale thinking on everyones part will make the gasoline go farther, quite frankly, they're worse than looters in NO.
Bullfrog
I'm thinking of getting one of them.
By tomorrow I expect all the stations will be over $3.00 and the gas stations were so busy...there were lines, like the ones you would see before a blizzard is coming.
Well, I hope Gov. Perdue spells 'abberation' as 'gouging' and busts his ass up and down Peachtree Street first thing tomorrow on his way to court.
Well, if there's a "run" on gas, I'd say what's going on is Supply vs. Demand.
$2.60 yesterday $3.39 today
AMidst all this destruction, all this disruption of energy supplies, all this widespread human suffering and the ripple effects of this horrible NATURAL disaster......Does this not bring into focus the absolutely crippling effects a nuclear attack would bring upon this country, in say a nexus of technology and energy like....HOUSTON?????
Austin, TX / Cedar Park TX, anywhere from 2.49 - 2.89 for regular. The one station that had 2.43 yesterday was 2.60 this PM.
Paid 2.83 in San Diego. The first station (Arco) I went to had no gas. However, I've seen this before at this station so it may have been some other problem.
NE Atlanta.
All stations in my neighborhood are out.
NE Atlanta.
All stations in my neighborhood are out.
Longwood Florida, filled up all cars at 2.59 a gal.
Balimore County, Maryland - On my way home from work tonight I saw a worker at a gas station raising the prices on the sign over $3.00 per gallon for regular.
FYI...in the south suburban Chicagoland area I noticed some stations did not have the "jacked-up" price any my way home from work...and lines were forming there.(2.83 for 87 octane, 3.09 I think for 93 octane) The jacked up prices started at 3.49 for 87 octane, I'm sure its higher within the city. I imagine some price gouging is going on. Luckily I filled both of my vehicles up on Sunday. I've found, through some planning ahead and conservation, I can go about three weeks until I have to fill up both vehicles again.
Station around the corner went up only 14 cents in the past two days to $2.73/gal (we'll see about tomorrow ;). A couple miles up the road another place had it for $2.95 -- not too many cars there though...
I traveled from Southern to Mid-Michigan today...my girlfriend was traveling North...same deal.
This is really not good.
This makes for a dry run for Homeland Security.
That's because everyone is panicking and topping off their tanks...that happened here in Arizona when the pipeline from Cali broke and prices went to 3 bucks overnight... There were long lines to get gas...After about 2 weeks when people realized they werern't gonna die without gas, things calmed back down...
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