Posted on 11/01/2012 9:47:24 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Yes I’ve noticed that all the ‘working together’ rhetoric has been replaced - if it ever existed - by the same good old Yankee belligerence. They bring joy to so many Southern locales every time they depart to return home. Unfortunately, some are forgetting to depart altogether.
I also note that gas ‘licensing’ (sic) laws have been relaxed in order to facilitate cross-state-border distribution of fuel. What’s left unsaid is that all the different formulations exist due to the meddling of state EPA/DNR Little Hitlers over the years. Apparently, it’s never occurred to them that someone might fill up in State A while driving (i.e. combusting that fuel) in State B, natural disasters notwithstanding. But patronage jobs at the EPA/DNR are sure vote getters, eh?
Because I spent it all on driving 50 miles to get 12 gallons of gas.
I wounder how fast it would take the U.S. to go tribal if all the Gasoline were to run out?
Pimped the Preezy. Now watch Gov. Kreme show up arm-in-arm with Romney in Ohio this weekend...
It isn’t a “panic”; these people have to get to work, get food, etc., and the cars are the only way to do it. Nobody is waiting in line for 3 hours for gas they don’t really need. Many of our stations are empty now, and many of these lines are starting early in the morning before the remaining stations open; they really need the gas.
Sorry, but that’s panic buying.
Why aren’t Sheppard Smith and Whoraldo out there screaming... “Oh, the humanity!”
If I was going to prep big-time, I'd store gasoline at home...at least 100 gallons. Then again, the people we're seeing in these photos are urbanites. Where would they put such a storage tank?
I was thinking the same. If you are prepped enough for a generator but forget to secure enough fuel, you might as well have saved you money on the generator and bought a bus ticket that left trouble a few days earlier.
Read "Once Second After", by William R. Forstchen. It's a novel about an EMP attack on the US that for practical purposes renders inoperable virtually anything with electronics...which includes almost all vehicles.
Things go tribal, as it were, within a week.
Now, let’s not make fun of somebody’s name because he happens to be gravitationally challenged.
It’s Gov. Chris Crisco.
;^)
If I were an urbanite, I’d go with propane in 20 lb. bar-b-que grill tanks. Expensive, but much safer to store and doesn’t require a fuel stabilizer for long term storage.
No, that’s called “buying gas”.
Now, let’s not make fun of somebody’s name because he happens to be gravitationally challenged.
It’s Gov. Chris Crisco.
;^)
There is no such thing as "gouging" - the price is what the market will bear.
Right now people may be paying $3.75 per gallon in cash, but they are also spending hours waiting in line and are really paying $30 or $40 per gallon in lost time at work or in babysitting.
Gasoline is a scarcer commodity in NJ right now than it is in TX, and therefore it should cost more.
If gas stations were allowed to charge the market rate - say $12 or $15 a gallon or what have you - then producers would be highl;y motivated to ship more gasoline to NJ and to bring generators to power now-dead pumps in order to be able to capitalize on the pent-up demand.
After a few days, supply would rebalance with demand and prices would go down.
But right now no one in his right mind would pay extra transport costs and spend money to reactivate dead pumps if all they were going to get was a measly $3.75 per gallon.
"Anti-gouging" creates worse shortages.
Carter: Now available in black.
There fixed it.
Makes sense.
The Great Die Off indeed.
Gee, with a little imagination, one can imagine the “same lines” as people will wait in for any kind of health care under Obamacare ! ! !
A surreal snapshot of the future? . . .
No “O” on 11.6.12 ! ! !
I'm glad I filled the tank in Massachusetts this morning. I should make it back but I'll be on fumes!
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