Gas Shortage Fears Rise in Georgia -understatement-Metro Atlanta panicked!

[Iris]

Cars are lining up and waiting in line for hours to fill up on $3.50+ gallons of gas here in metro Atlanta. I tried to go down to my local gas station and the street was backed up for blocks. There were 3 police cars in the turn lane with the officers standing next to them directing traffic into the 2 gas stations on the block - both with cars streaming out from all sides.

Damn - this is a time when I wish I had a camera phone.

The Governor has requested citizens to cancel their Labor Day travel plans.

http://www.wsbtv.com/money/4919369/detail.html

[napi21]

1. Hubby told me there was a station in Duluth that was out of gas

this morning, just before noon. He also said there were 8-10 cars in line at the little gas station about 1/2 block from here when he passed this AM around 11 O'clock. This is really strange for Ga. to experience this, don't ya think?

[xultar]

3. OMFG that is out by me. I refuse to go out in this mess.

[htuttle]

7. I was just told that the gas stations in Madison, WI can't get more gas

The manager of a BP station near me just told me his boss called him to tell him the terminal is out of gas (probably the Port of Milwaukee one).

He's at $2.99 now (for E10, 10% ethanol), but will be going up to $3.09 very soon. Of course, if he can't get any more loads of gas next week, that won't matter.

[Iris]

10. Especially since our gas prices are usually much lower than average!

[napi21]

12. Yea, that sure hasn't bee the case lately, huh?

I've been asking that question for over a month now. What happened to Ga. having the lowesst state taxes on Gas in the country? I guess we also have the greediest sellers too, huh?

[Eloriel]

20. At least one QuickTrip in the Austell area, or thereabouts closed too

Late afternoon.

[Supersedeas]

2. cancel Labor Day....Mission Accomplished?

[xultar]

4. Labor is hard work.

[Arkansas Democrat]

5. This is Terrible!

Do they think those prices will go down soon?? This sounds like gouging to me!!

[napi21]

9. No, I think they're switching the concern to just getting gas at all!

Check my post above. I can't imagine why a station in Duluth Ga. would have been out of gas this morning. I think this is the perfect opportunity for the gas companies to scare Americans even more, not of high gas prices, but of getting gas at all!

I just don't believe all this BS of $70+ barrel oil, gas shortage & ability to refine enough is real. I accept the idea that there is going to be a big problem with refining because of shutting down 12 of them in the Gulf...for a while, but the rest of it is BS!

[Zhade]

21. You think that's bad, check post #7.

WISCONSIN can't get gas?

They've gotta be kidding!

[BootinUp]

16. Not sure what to believe myself, but

I saw another thread with news about shutdown pipelines on the Gulf Coast that bring gas to GA. It seems to me that its possible stations could be running out assuming the pipelines were shutdown Sunday or Monday due to the storm.

[BooScout]

6. Rumors started on the net....

.........and spread from there. Gas prices have jumped nearly a dollar at some stations in Atlanta today. I cannot believe what I just saw on the local news.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

8. That's "rumors on the internets"

[ConcernedCanuk]

13. I watched the price change from $1.05 to $1.25 a litre -

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Standing at a local gas station in my wee Northern Canuk town of 2,000 souls, my friend the owner, got out his ladder (after getting a phone call from the price-setters) crawl up the pole and replace the Zero with a Two - the gas station across the road beat him to it by about a minute

A gas station down the road was at 1.04 as I biked into town (yeah - BIKED), and was still at 1.04 on my way out,

BUT

this time there was about 15 cars in line - that's a TRAFFIC JAM in this part of the world!

[Roland99]

17. Apparently for good reason.

[tazkcmo]

11. Take a deep breath America

Put down the gas nozzle and slowly back away from the pump. There's no need to panic. Sheesh.

[Straight Shooter]

15. Herd mentality.

Granted, though, there's a tendency to become alarmed when you think you may not be able to get to work because you can't get gasoline for your transportation x(

[Sequoia]

18. Maybe I should take the bus

Have to march along a rural road and jump in weeds and ditches when cars come by to get to the bus stop about 20 minutes worth of walking time.

[Iris]

19. Yep. If I can't get gas somewhere between home and work tomorrow,

I'll have to bring something home on Friday. I'm grateful I can at least do that.

[barb162]

14. Every guv should tell people to cancel Labor Day travel

as gas will be short the next few weeks easy.

[Bo]

22. $5.25 a Gallon in Atlanta

www.atlantagasprices.com

[DS1]

23. That's nice. My browser says 2.49, which is 50 cents cheaper than

it is here in MA.

:eyes:

[BooScout]

24. Bastards.

The governor has promised to go after price gougers. Hopefully they will be in jail by the morning.

[Liberal Ohioan]

25. $3.09 in Mansfield, OH

[Liberal Ohioan]

26. $2.33 yesterday

[jbm]

27. I'm in Missouri..

and the station nearest my house ran out of gas this afternoon. I was talking to the manager earlier this evening and she told me their supply man never arrived, no one ever contacted her to tell her if or when he was coming, and she had been unable to reach anyone to find out what was going on. As far as I know, there is still gas available in town, although the price has gone up again to 2.83 a gallon.

[BayCityProgressive]

28. Where I am in Michigan

gas stations are running out. This country is going to hell in a hand basket.

[toopers]

29. Yea, but you gotta remember . . .

this town runs out of milk at the first site of a snowflake. This is all a self fulfilling prophecy stirred on by hysterical minds!

[rustydad]

30. Folks.....

Don't you see the reality? We are at peak oil. We are never going to have more oil to pump into our wastefull live styles again, only less. Katrina is a bump in the road, a down hill road. paying $3+ for a gallon of gas is just the begining. If you really need to go from here to there, say thirty miles, to work or get food for the family, and it now costs $10 instead of $6 are you going to forgo the trip? Not likely. Gas will go up until someone or lots of someones drop out of the bidding, vehicles on empty. At that point what will happen to the economy and life *style* of americos will be interesting, from the outside. The tipping point was very near, Katrina ( I really do like the Rusky name) pushed us over the cliff. Gotaparachute? Bob

[katamaran]

31. $6 a gallon...here's a pic from another thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4537101

[Malikshah]

32. Yup-- and, no, it's not photoshopped as some have said

I saw it on Hardball w/ tweety-- they were panning around to two gas stations-- the one across the street was 2.79 or something...

strange, though...