Posted on 08/30/2017 3:57:42 PM PDT by TrumpisRight
Edited on 08/30/2017 4:10:34 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
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Texas runs on gas.
Bad news for me! I didn’t fill up before the hurricane! Haven’t actually left the house either! Afraid of getting stuck in water!
Texas is dependent on Trucked gas.
Gas up as your roads are messed up.
I am in NTX and made a quick store run. Gas prices seem OK and no sign of panic prices nor buying.
Please don’t plant rumors.
Buy lots of gasoline; it floats on water.:-)
Gassed up in Eastern NC today - the end of the Colonial Pipeline. So far no problem
This is why we need electric green smart cars and stuff....God bless all you Texans stuck in this madness.Wish I could still do more than praying. Stay safe all.
Bttt.
5.56mm
Not totally unexpected from major Hurricane impacts:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3581937/posts
Port Arthur refinery, largest in US, shuts down as Harvey floods Texas
Some others closings:
https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2017/08/28/lyondellbasell-shuts-several-houston-area.html
My sister is in Fort Worth.
She said there were long lines in the middle of the day and the price went up 40 cents while she was waiting.
The refineries that supply the depots where trucks load gas are shut down as are their pipelines.
And then there are the flooded highways...
OMG!!! Some DFW folks will have to stay home and have a BBQ this coming weekend. The DFW highways may think they’re being ignored. All the poor dears!!! /sarc
In fact, in solidarity with others in Texas south of DFW, the DFW folks ought to stay home this weekend, saving the state’s oil reserves so prices do not spike so much just as Houston opens back up.
In California our prices have been climbing since mid-July. They’ll stay high 10 times longer than necessary to relieve the national supply deficit, because we’re so easy to gouge out here. I doubt very little California gas crosses the state line, but the refineries use any excuse under the sun to gouge us. Easy money...
Gas has shot up 35c here in NC.
We have plenty and I would guess the system is going back on line.
The process is so damn difficult for security reasons.
Irma coming in the back door. Either Gulf or Carolinas. We shall see.
Yup. That would solve the problem.
Let’s see refineries shut down? Yes.
Tanker trucks and refined gasoline storage impacted by hurricane? Yes
So even though Dallas FW wasn’t flooded the ability to get gasoline to market may create spot outages of fuel? Makes sense.
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