Gas lines here!

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mntetn · #1 Post by **mntetn** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 9:33 am

With more and more stations running out of gas, lines have formed at the few stations that still have it, or when a station gets a delivery. The lines started building up Friday afternoon and continued all weekend. Typically it's one or two blocks in both directions from the station, with reported waits of over an hour.

We're told it's a local situation because we depend largely on a pipeline originating in Louisiana that had run dry. We are also told that the corresponding refineries are back in operation and that the pipe is again at full capacity, but the stuff only moves at 3 to 5 mph. By the end of the week, we are supposed to be back to normal.

Meanwhile, it feels like the '70s all over again. I've been fortunate since I had two full tanks going in, and my wife has been too sick to drive. Well, that part's not fortunate, but it has helped. It also helps that I am only 6 miles from work. Nonetheless, I had run my car dry by Saturday night, so I am driving the van this week.

Amazingly, the gas that is available is selling anywhere between 379.9 and 429.9, sometimes within just a few blocks.

Technology has improved since the '70s. Back then, we didn't have digital signs. Someone figured out how to post OUT.9 on one of the Interstate billboards, so you wouldn't bother to get off.

Idle question: if we're so dependent on one pipeline, why are there so many brands of gas? For that matter, how do we get the 3 blends?

Articles and pictures here: http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll ... /1001/NEWS

Bob Juch · #2 Post by **Bob Juch** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 9:43 am

Colonial is blaming the refineries:
http://www.colpipe.com/home.asp