Nice gas lines on CNN....

[BlueJac]

Someones going to pull a gun.......

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Possibly

[SodoffBush]

2. probably

it's Texas

[Cocoa]

3. lots of guns in Texas

or so I've heard.

[Burried News]

4. Runnin out of gas in Yeewstun Texas. So many ironies so little time.

[enid602]

7. grapes

Sure hope Ma Joad has 'nuff ham'burgs for the whole fambly, and that granma makes it to see Californie.

[ClintonTyree]

5. Today Houston..

next week the rest of the country. Gas lines will be a part of the landscape for quite a while if this thing hits Houston head-on.

[karlrschneider]

6. It won't...Rita has changed track toward Lake Chuck

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[MadHound]

8. Don't know that yet, we're just going on the best educated guess'

Hurricanes are notorious for taking lots of little jigs and jogs, that is why the strike cone is so large. Sure, it looks like it is going to go north of Houston now, but not that far north. That could change by the hour, and any real certainty won't be until a couple of hours before it makes landfall.

Myself, I'm not taking any chances, storing twenty-five gallons of gas tonight at the "low low" price of $2.49. For no matter where Rita hits on the Gulf coast, by this time next week gas will have jumped to at least four dollars a gallon. After all, Big Oil has yet to meet a natural disaster that it can't profit from.

[enid602]

10. Houston

That's good news for Houston, as it gives them a northwestern exposure from the Hurricane. The northeastern exposure is the dirty side. Sorry, New Orleans. All in all, the best news I've heard all day. Oh, and sorry Lake Charles.

[rainbow4321]

9. Regular gas running out in part of North Texas...

Plano, TX. Just north of Dallas. Several gas stations have the word "empty" on their station's regular signs. Gallon bottled water also getting scarce in my neighborhood.

Between all of us locals filling up/topping off, the large number of evacuees now here, and the soon-to-be shut down TX refineries, things will only get uglier before they get better.