Posted on 08/31/2005 6:10:20 PM PDT by Tank-FL
Orange County School Superintendent Ron Blocker announced Wednesday that the school district is running out of gas, according to a Local 6 News report.
The pipelines out of New Orleans that supply the district with diesel fuel have no power and the suppliers have canceled the shipments.
So, the school district estimates it has enough gas to bus students to and from school through Friday, Local 6 News reported. If another shipment of fuel does not come before Friday buses will not be able to run.
"Parents, as early as next week, will have to drive their children to school," Local 6 News reporter Jessica Sanchez said. "We're looking at 73,000 students, who normally take the school bus have to walk or drive to school. You can imagine the traffic nightmare that will create..'
Law enforcement has been notified to be on alert if another gas shipment does not arrive.
Transportation to field trips and after school events, such as football games, has been canceled.
Orange County is doing everything it can to conserve fuel since they don't know when another shipment will be coming in, according to the report.
Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.
Video link on the story
Posted on 09/30/2004 11:56:49 PM EDT by Jim Robinson
NO ONE ELSE THOUGHT OF THIS SO IT DESERVES A THREAD OF ITS OWN!
I think each and every poster on FR should post a new thread stating his opinion on the debate. This way, instead of having only a few threads with hundreds of posts each (ie, discussion threads), we will have hundreds of threads, each with two comments. One the important opinion, and two, the complaint about vanity posts.
Self-fulfilling prophecy--if people make panic buys of gasoline, there *will* be a shortage.
Well put!
Perhaps there is a reason that innocent children should end up "stuck" safely at home in the coming days of woe.
Before we decide this is "bad news," we could check the district's test scores ... could be they'd be better off at home playing computer games!
Interesting...
FYI...in the south suburban Chicagoland area I noticed some stations did not have the "jacked-up" price any my way home from work...and lines were forming there.(2.83 for 87 octane, 3.09 I think for 93 octane) The jacked up prices started at 3.49 for 87 octane, I'm sure its higher within the city. I imagine some price gouging is going on. Luckily I filled both of my vehicles up on Sunday. I've found, through some planning ahead and conservation, I can go about three weeks until I have to fill up both vehicles again.
I'm right down the street from the Seminole County bus garage and all the stations on our road are either dry or going dry. At 6:00pm the lines were in the streets and I could only get what was left of Super unleaded because regular was gone.
Brother in law called in and said Orlando was running out of gas also.
ROTFLOL ;-/
In World War Two, husbands, brothers, sons, uncles, cousins and friends along with the women that provided nursing care, manufactured ordinance and tended to children did so with courage and the conviction that the United States of America would prevail against all odds.
Can that spirit be renewed?
We're out of cable for a day and we're screaming at the customer service rep.
The new toaster oven won't work and we've lost the receipt, we're going to call corporate because we don't get a refund.
A disaster occurs such as Katrina and we turn our eye to those that steal at the expense of others.
Aside from those brave soldiers, volunteers and servants of the people, I'll need to be convinced that we are the rightful inheritors of the title "The greatest generation."
It's hard enough keeping up without everybody out there put up a thread about every single thought that goes through their mind!
I know. Everything that turns up on TV is *not* news!
Something is happening here in Orlando. There is Panic to some degree.
Long lines at pumps in South Orlando - however it has/was started - South Conway and Airport Area
Let's see, back then were 20% interest rates before or after the gas crisis?
If we decide it is, I have a LOT of stuff I need to post.
LOL!
I can't say I consider it much of a negative at all. The first thing that came to mind, was that the unusual situation may force children to be at home, which could potentially be a Godsend IF something suddenly happens that is really really bad. Otherwise parents wouldn't be able to get their children out of locked down schools.
I don't think its possible to have the tinfoil adjusted too tight these days.
Ahh! Florida..another state that bans drilling for oil. I feel so bad fuel is short!
Waitaminute, you've all missed a BIG question.
So this means the school district can ONLY get gas through a contract (can't take busses to stations and fill'er'up), and they also only budget gas 4 days in advance.
WTF is up with that.
This isn't the 70%, most importantly the maturity of the global market means that any initial spike have an extreem likelyhood of being A) Price Gouging or B) Panic induced surge in demand raising spiking prices for a week.
Either way the 'spike', after a few weeks will spead itself over the global market, and as demand rises and prices rise imports will rise, which will increase the global price of crude but blunt what a 'US Only' shortage would entail.
Anyway, after a month of people orgasiming over a women in a ditch in Crawford, its no surpirse how quickly the 'gas shortage' angle willb e played, or the extent to how hard it is exagerated.
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