Gas Panic: East Coast Gasoline Demand Soars 32.5%, Outages Spread

Breitbart ^ | 5-11-2021 | John Carney

[matt04]

Don’t worry, resident Biden was dumb enough to take a question from the press either today or yesterday, and said not to worry. The question was if we can’t stop some rogue hackers, how could we stop state sponsored hackers. Biden said we could stop them both before wandering off.

Last I checked it was some road crackers that took out one of our pipe lines that we couldn’t stop, just don’t tell Biden that because that’s not what the Teleprompter told him to say.

[matt04]

There’s a very interesting video from AT&T about how they helped pipelines operate back in the 50s or so. At the time they created basically a promotional video of how their services could help pipelines, railroads, businesses, etc. operate and since then they’ve posted several of them to YouTube.

[Grampa Dave]

Prices north of Gay Frisco:

Regular

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$4.39
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Midgrade

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$4.53

One of our Gene Pools has over a hundred pickups in his fleet. They expected regular gas for all us to be over $5/gallon by memorial day. Now, they are saying in a little over a week.

Thanks to savant idiot Joe Xiden and his masterminds in charge of this disaster now known as America.

[Grampa Dave]

Much better these days to have some “carryover” Diesel cars where storing and hauling Diesel is much safer.

Try selling that excellent reality/suggestion to IVY league top management.

[SGCOS]

some valuable cars in this pic..sigh...

[CJ Wolf]

Filled up yesterday with my grocery store discount. $1.75, used the whole dollar off. Love that store. Drove by the same gas station today. They had big lines. Not 70s style yet. Gas was 2.99 for regular. Up almost a quarter overnight. I expect they may be out tomorrow. Reporting from northern Virginia.

[ronnie raygun]

deliberate

[GOPJ]

The media has to offer the same excuse for cartels filling every kiddie whore house in the US (and now dumping kids to die in open areas before they cross the border),

then for Iranians thugs and their speed boats taking on our navy,

Palestinians bombing Israel,

and international thugs taking down our pipelines...

The media has their work cut out for them...

Who's next to kick sand in Biden's face? I'm guessing the Chinese... then the EU... led by Germans, then South America will empty into Texas... like the Mariel boatlift - only much worse.

[DownInFlames]

No it’s not. The mooslems have nothing to do w this.

[Nifster]

Pure panic porn

The same idiots that bought a years worth of toilet paper last year are topping off and loading any container they’ve got

Such insanity

[Paladin2]

When gas went over $2/gal, I suddenly discovered VW m/t TDI station wagons that could get 45-50 mpg. That was back before the Diesel Sulfur limits were reduced and Diesel was less /gal than gas.

They stopped building and importing the cars at the end of CY 2004. So, in early 2005 I rounded up one veh. in Milwaukee and one in Missoula. Still have both. And about 100 gal. worth of 5 gal Diesel jugs for a tactical reserve.

The cars both have ~170,000 mi so they have been withdrawn from long distance use. I’m apparently going to have to revise that thinking.

[BobL]

“The Jones Act requires vessels moving between U.S. ports be built, flagged and crewed in the United States.”

It would sure be nice to figure out why we need the Chones Act to begin with and what we can do to make ourselves somewhat competitive again.

[shaven_llama]

So I’m down in central Florida planning a move across the country, with an f150 and all my belongings in a trailer, and no place to live locally after the middle of next week.

And now I’m worried I won’t be able to make it to my destination.

[TalBlack]

People are probably starting to “top off” their tank when only down a quarter or a half. They say that was what happened back in the 70s gas “shortage”.

[Mr.FixIt]

I had a GM pickup with two 20 gallon tanks, and also a bunch of 5 gallon jerry cans.

I had a motorcycle and a big block gas guzzler (10 mpg on it's best days). The neighborhood gas station had one pump island with three pumps. Only two could fill at one time, one on each side of the island.

I would put a 5 gallon jerry can on one of the buddy pegs of the bike with a bungee cord over the seat hooked to the other side shock. I rode to the exit side of the island, without blocking the island, since that was the exit end. I would take the can off the peg and fill it up with the unused pump, never had a problem.

Motorcycles didn't have the even / odd day restriction and there was an open pump that no one else could use, so what the heck. I didn't see a gas shortage other than the price. ; )

[gathersnomoss]

Bought my first locking gas cap in the 70’s.
A mere 50 years later, bought my second now for the motorhome. First to buy a cap at Autozone. Won’t be the last.

[gathersnomoss]

BS, topping off IS NOT the issue.
Marxists want you to buy that crap.

[TalBlack]

Until these hackers came along Xiden was responsible for the rising gas prices. Handy that...

[msrngtp2002]

I know some want to make this political but my question is why do we have critical systems connected to the internet such that hackers can disable them? If control needs to happen remotely then maybe build your own network? Run your own fiber while you build the pipeline? This is actually inexcusable on so many levels. Lots of people need to lose jobs over this and stock holders really need to get involved to get these companies to control their systems. This is just one severe example, there have been hundreds of other examples involving healthcare and banks. I can’t believe these hackers are so much smarter than the network admins if these companies or perhaps they are due to hiring the wrong people.

[diplomatic_immunity]

The most remarkable thing I noticed from this photo is there is not even one non-commercial truck and only one van. Now we are around 60-70% pickups and SUVs in northern Georgia, many with thirsty V8s.