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 23:37:25

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Jim Larson wrote:
> RR wrote:
>
>> 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?
>>
>
> Mrs. Peel?

Rocky?

-- 
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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