In such situations, prices should have risen to $5-8 a gallon to prevent people from filling up completely and leaving less for everyone else. I only needed 2 gallons.
Oh bull shit. My local station here in NE Alabama ran out of unleaded and unleaded plus so they lowered the price of premium to 2.19, the same price as the regular unleaded. That was the correct response.
I love telling whiners they should have been better prepared and filled their tanks instead of blaming the shortage on those of use who did.