Subj : Re: Katrina is being felt all around here in one way or another....
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Teamhair
Date : Thu Sep 01 2005 15:14:54

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape


"G" <geez@myhome.net> wrote in message 
news:11he48gdbh16c5e@news.supernews.com...
> 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...
>

 Well the oil reserve isn't so much the problem as the fact that the 
refineries to refine the oil are not operational right now. The pipelines 
that distribute the gas to the Eastern US are not operating right now. Even 
though the rigs offshore only produce like 7-10% of what we use, everything 
else coming into the US is getting bottle-necked. Your only ports now are 
either in New England or on the west coast. Everything would have to be 
trucked. In essence stupid people have created their own shortage by 
panicking. If there had been conservation and restrictions before this, the 
gas stations would have been able to hold out longer before receiving their 
next deliveries.
 Here in W. North Carolina we saw the gas station on the corner raise his 
prices $.50 in 30 minutes. This is just a local place not a chain store. I 
paid for "cheap" gas $2.89/gal. Most places are around $3.19-3.29 for 
regular but I have seen here in the boon-docks up to $3.79 at a chain store 
right off of I-40.

 Teamhair

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