Hurricane Ike and Gas Prices
Has the price of gas gone up by you yet?
Are people where you live starting to panic?
We may live in a small town in Wisconsin but Hurricane Ike is causing a panic already in our town. It looked like every single one of the 2,000 people in our town were racing to buy gas today. The gas station was packed almost all day. In the afternoon gas had already gone up 6 cents. This created more of a panic and everyone raced to get gas before it goes up even more.
I was just about on empty and James was at half a tank. So we decided to fill up before prices went up. We went from $3.69 to $3.75 this afternoon. I know that is not very bad but I figured better safe then sorry so we filled up. Who knows what will happen to the price of gas tomorrow.
I was shocked by what I saw and heard at the gas station. In a small town a gas station tends to bring out neighborly conversations. People were waiting in line talking about how high prices have gotten down south. Others were discussing how the hurricane could wipe out the oil refineries in Texas and cause prices everywhere across the country to go way up.
Many of the people at the gas station said that they were gassing up everything they owned. People brought all of their vehicles, gas cans, lawn mowers, and even their recreational vehicles. We did not go that far. I did make sure that the vehicles were all the way filled up though. The amount of gas that James goes through driving between the stores he runs makes me wish that we had a way to buy fuel in bulk while prices are low. Wouldn't it be nice to have your own gas pump at home so you could stock up on fuel when prices were lower?
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My wife and I went grocery shopping last night. After we left, we decided to fill up our mini-van. The price of gasoline was $3.59.
After we got home and unloaded the groceries, I decided to take our Taurus and fill it up too. Ya never know, right. So forty-five minutes later, I was out the door and decided to go to the same previous place to fill it up.
By that time, the price of gas had gone up to $3.65.
Today, Friday, my wife found out that by lunch time, no one in town had regular gasoline! So people were having to fill it up with premium, which was over $4.00 a gallon.
We just have too much technology and industry to be susceptible like this.
Between yesterday morning and 5 pm yesterday gas went up from $3.50 to over $5.00 and sold out along Hwy 19 in the Nantahala Gorge in extreme western North Carolina. You had to drive 30 miles 1 way east or west to hope to find gas.
prices here in soth carolina upstate are at 4.60 as of this morning and most stations are out of gas...it's crazy!!!!!!!!
That's a crazy amount for gas, but then again, the coastal states always have it way worse.
Mommie
The shortage might be caused bu everyone panicking and store extra gas at home ... that's why the prices shot up.
I just think the danger of stocking too much flammable material at home is dangerous ...
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