Nashville is out of gas

J double R said:
honestly, i smell something fishy. this whole deal just seems too weird. if a pipe didnt work right, it looks to me like it would be easy enough to circumvent with trucks traveling a little farther. too many obvious plain ways to fix it and seemingly none of them done.

its not like that area of the country is like an island. and if the "shortage" was really that bad, why is gas here plentiful and down to nearly less than 3.00 a gallon?
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Ok, I've been lurking and trying not to rant but now I have to. I'm North of the Atlanta Metro and yes, this area is basically an island when it comes to gas delivery. We basically get all our gas from the Southern Gulf refineries and pipelines. NC has gas, but SC doesn't; Ky has gas, but Tn doesn't... That is because those are basically the demarc points that have the ability to receive from multiple regional distribution points. Down here, we don't have that option.

I haven't bought gas for over a week now. I'm fortunate that I can work from home. Most people don't have that option though and this area is notorious for long commutes so alot of people really do need to get the gas just to get to work everyday. They're are of course idiots filling 5G cans after they fill their car, but that is a very small minority.

As far as the EPA changes, yes they were made. Because of the air quality in Atlanta and Nashville, the EPA required a cleaner grade here. That grade is refined in smaller quantity than the standard. The ask wasn't to change the refinery lineups, but rather to allow us to utilize the gas mix that exists in larger supply. To give you an idea of the "perfect storm" of supply interuption and government blundering we're in right now... this has been 20x worse than when Katrina hit and actually damaged the infrastructure. Perdue asked today that the Strategic reserve be tapped.

Awww.... the South, it's a great place to live but I don't want to have to drive here.
 
You know whats funny? Only mainly from CLT and west is having a gas shortage. Raleigh and Wilmington have no gas shortage,neither does Charleston SC from what I understand. Reason is they have their gas shipped in by ship not pipelines.

Seems to me this could all have been taken care of by trucking in gas from the North and Midwest where they have plenty of gas. What happened to being United States? Seems to me its Divided states.

What happens if terrorists decide to take out the pipeline? The Southeast will come to a grinding halt.Talk about an economic tragedy in the making.

Another possible solution would be to have gas employees walk the line of cars and look at gas gauges. If you have half a tank or more they refuse to sell to you. That would help stop the panic buying and help the stations build up their supply instead of having cars follow tankers into stores and waiting overnight because they heard a tanker was going to make a delivery at that store.
 
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