Makes me real glad I am able to bike just about everywhere I need to go. Hopefully things will get better soon.
Nashville is out of gas
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They tried that jacking the prices up here in florida but the only thing was Charlie Christ issues states of emergency whenever a hurricane comes anywhere near florida which means that gas stations cant raise their prices above a certain amount over the price they purchase it for so right after the hurricane people went crazy thinking that we got our oil from TX and were buying all the gas so stations started raising their prices(one Flying J raised their prices 3 times in the matter of an hour to almost $4.50 a gallon) but since Christ had issued the state of emergency they set up a hotline for people wanting to report price gouging and there were thousands that were caught and when they are caught they are FINED huge amounts of money much much more than they had made during their illegal price raises :devil:
The Gate station down the street here in Jacksonville went up to $4.15 last Sunday. Crist made announcements about price gouging not being tolerated and by Monday afternoon they were down to $3.85. On the flip side, they still had fuel while everyone who had not raised prices were sold out.
it is nothing more than greed, the tanks were full the refineries are full, supply is not a question, ike did not change any of that, the supply of crude is out of sight. the problem now is where to store the crude now. the supply of gas is high, storage tanks are in short supply. even with laws against gouging it still happens and no one cares.
We have fuel in Clarksville. Deliveries here resumed on Tuesday, I think. You might check some of the other surrounding towns too. Not sure why Nashville's having so much trouble; it's really got my girlfriend on edge (she lives in Hillsboro) watching people wait in line for gas.
I spoke too soon. Normal delivery shedule has resumed, but each delivery is only 30-40% of normal. A lot of the stations are cutting off their unleaded tanks while still half-full and selling only high-test. *******s.
Odd...I know here overnight the prices rose like 40 cents a gallon (3.50s to near 4), and it's back down to the 3.60s...One thing I noticed at the Walmart where I fuel up is they are only selling regular (87 octane) gas, and every tank/pump they got (even what was normally the high octane ones) are all regular at the moment...works for me 
It's almost 2 weeks and the situation hasn't changed. And I just read that Atlanta is starting to have the same problem. Now they are blaming the pipeline that carries gas, saying there isn't as much flowing through as before the hurricanes. Wait! That was their first excuse, then they blamed drivers for buying gas, now they are blaming the pipe again. And they are saying that this could last until at least this weekend. My husband works at a big hospital, and he said that people can't get into work because they can't find gas. Can't even carpool if you can't find gas, and this is including Dr's who can't get into work.
