CNN: fights breaking out at a gas station in Houston

[tgnyc]

People filling up plastic containers. They're not even evacuating. A straight panic.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. oh no...... i was afraid of this

[Guaranteed]

2. When I filled up today, the station was in the process of raising

the prices, and the people waiting for the pumps to turn back on were berating the attendants.

[daninthemoon]

10. Here in OK I filled up for 1.799, then went around the corner and saw 1.49

Whose setting these prices?

[Rainscents]

23. $1.79 and $1.49??? Where are you buying gas from???

[The Backlash Cometh]

27. 2.79 & 2.89 in Central Florida.

[daninthemoon]

30. See where my mind is? 2.49 & 2.79.

[mark11727]

38. You were remembering a simpler, happier time...

... when gas was under 2.00. (sigh)

[daninthemoon]

42. Way way back. Seems like almost a year now.

[wakeme2008]

3. Did they say what city nt

[Pirate Smile]

7. Houston.

[tgnyc]

8. Houston.

[daninthemoon]

4. Is this somewhere in the storm path, or just general public panic?

Just saw another thread asking if the TX National Guard is coming back from OilWar II.

[tgnyc]

12. Sounds like both.

Some are leaving, some are not. But even those who are not are in panic mode.

[lebkuchen]

16. Had the NG been there NOW manning the gas stations

in an area where there is apparently a dearth of stations, it would have helped in a big way to prevent chaos from breaking out.

[BootinUp]

39. You darn liberals are just lookin to blame our preznut again!

:sarcasm:


No, you're absolutely right. I haven't been able to watch the news coverage, probably a good thing cause it would just depress me.

[political_invader]

21. Gov. White said earlier 5,000 tropps have been activated nt

[AspenRose]

24. White is the mayor...Rick Perry is the dumbass governor

eom

[lebkuchen]

25. Where have I heard that before?

[dhinojosa]

44. You mean Mayor White?

[Oreo]

5. This is their new looting story

The traffic jams are potentially deadly if it's not cleared when the storm comes. CNN and the rest of the "media" will be going to every gas station in TX looking for a scuffle now.

[mandyky]

13. Looting redneck style!

LOL But they wait until a black person starts a ruckus. Kayne West was right about the media AND GWB and crew!

[mandyky]

6. Hey, it's Teaxs

Land of only the strong survive. Sorry Texan DUers, YOU ALL know what I am saying - It's a Texas thang. :)

[Guaranteed]

14. Well, in 2005, all you need to be strong is a gun.

And that's never pretty.

[back2basics909]

9. "fights"?

Must be black people, if it were white people it would be disagreements. ;)

[incapsulated]

11. Everything is breaking down...

:(

We can't take another one of these disasters, and it's very possible there will be another, we are still in hurricane season.

All those refineries are going to be shut down or washed away for who knows how long.

The Gods have abandoned Rome.

[oasis]

15. It looked to me like a few guys commandeered a gas pump , filled

up gas containers and were selling them.

[tgnyc]

19. Yes. And the reporter said people were snatching nozzles

out of one another's hands.

[MSgt213]

17. I went out an about today. I'm not in the storm surge area, but the gas

station down the street from me was jammed packed. I drove past that one a little further down the road where there are two stations on each corner of the street and one gas station was almost completely empty while the other looked like a normal day. Yet 3 blocks away everyone was trying to get into one station. Didn't make a lot of sense to me.

[daleo]

33. Maybe one gives more air miles. n/t

[daninthemoon]

18. Good thing we don't need any of those National Guard troops here.

[AllegroRondo]

20. All we need now is some idiot with a gun

it is Texas, after all.

[TahitiNut]

22. Bizarre. Station REFUSING cash, only accepting credit cards.

The station owner should be prosecuted and jailed for refusing "Legal Tender For All Debts Public and Private" .... and discriminating against people (like the POOR) who don't have credit cards!

[lebkuchen]

26. Why would he refuse cash?

[Rainscents]

28. Lot of poors don't have credit cards. Buy doing this, poor can't buy gas.

Can you believe this shit?

[peekaloo]

29. fear of being robbed?

[TahitiNut]

32. That's all I could guess. They gave no reason in reporting it.

:shrug:

[lebkuchen]

34. Hell, people will steal the gas before the money

not that the thieves would be able to make a clean break either way~

[pacalo]

36. Accomodations should be made to all forms of payment during evacuations!

[lebkuchen]

37. It's cash that's being refused, not credit cards

the credit cards will come after the hurricane, then no type of currency will be accepted.

[pacalo]

40. I saw that after I posted & edited it.

I'm still traumatized about the "cash only" experiences on the road, I guess.

[lebkuchen]

47. Well, it is incredulous that cash wouldn't be accepted

why would anyone think it wouldn't be?

[pacalo]

50. When the credit cards can't be authorized by machines due to downed lines,

they will not be accepted. As for why cash is being refused under any circumstances, I'm as baffled as anyone else.

[A-Possum]

43. Driveaways?

Maybe it's intended to prevent people from filling up and driving off. Not saying it's right, just a possible explanation.

[Guaranteed]

46. They might be afraid the banks will close. nt

[lebkuchen]

48. Drive away to where?

that Houston stau must be a hundred miles long.

[tgnyc]

31. They just ran out of gas. Diesel only.

[lebkuchen]

35. What % of vehicles in TX use diesel do you suppose?

In Europe, it's the cheapest gas, it's commonplace, and it's standard fuel fare.

[cynatnite]

45. Probably higher than most states...

diesel pickups aren't uncommon.

My folks had two when we lived in Oklahoma. My stepdad was a farm mechanic.

[Javaman]

41. Remember the car chases that were big news a few years ago??

This type of stuff has replaced that.

Watching people from a police helicopter kicking the crap out of each other for a gallon of gas is the new breaking news flash from the MSM.

How quickly our society crumbles when the have mores piss off the have nots.

There is a seething reptilian anger lurking below the surface of this country. Give it time folks, it's not a matter of if but when it will explode.

colossal racist failures*.

[lebkuchen]

49. I always thought that was the type of behavior Texans took pride in

rugged individualism, every man for himself, survival of the fittest, and all that.