Subj : Re: Katrina is being felt all around here in one way or another....
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : RR
Date : Thu Sep 01 2005 23:30:20

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

weirdwolf 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!)
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I forgot about that one.  This will be the third gas shortage I've
>>>>> experienced.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I wasn't exactly driving at the time, but I remember the lines.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I had my own personal chauffeur for much of the year.
>>
>> Me too. Her name was Mom.
>>
>
> How strange mine was called mother, what a bizarre coincedence.

Steed?

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RR

"It's been my experience that every
  time I think I know 'where it's at,'
      it's really somewhere else."
      - William Holden - S.O.B.

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