Subj : Re: Katrina is being felt all around here in one way or another....
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Jim Larson
Date : Thu Sep 01 2005 16:30:04

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Nick wrote:

> G wrote:
> 
>> Well I live in Upstate SC. My wife came home and told me all gas
>> stations within a 15 mile radius have no gas. Ones that do have very
>> long lines going for blocks. People here are panicking saying there
>> is going to be a gas shortage or something? I guess they forgot the
>> federal oil reserves we have. So now every bob and jim have run out
>> to fill up. All there containers with gasoline. Gas has soared to $4
>> to 5 a gallon here. I saw a sign on TV in Atlanta saying $5.89 a
>> gallon. Getting rather crazy here and I am in SC. No where near those
>> other states that where directly hit... 
>> 
> 
> The problem is being exacerbated by all the idiots who are suddenly buying 
> a lot more gas than they usually would.  It is a self fulfilling prophecy.
> 

Exacerbate this, prophecy boy.

(I am waiting for them to start restricting when you can gas up based on 
license plate numbers[1]. 1973 here we come!)

-- 
Jim

[1] I wonder what people with vanity plates do then.

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