Shit- gas lines again - echoes of the 70's

[packman]

Waited in line, extending out into the road, for 1/2 hr. Passed station after station with pumps closed with the yellow bag over them. I lived thru this crap before and really am too damn old to tolerate it again .

[hlthe2b]

1. Where?

[packman]

4. Panhandle of Florida - to the east of Pensacola

[DFW]

2. We heard about that.

We're coming back to the USA in July. I hope this is resolved by then--and no toilet paper shortages as a consolation prize, either.

[spooky3]

3. So far, no TP shortage in my town, but prices are high. Nt

[DFW]

7. I just checked the average price in our town back in Germany

It US$ per gallon, it was $6.71 when we left in mid April. It is now $7.23 per gallon.

For us, it's Euros per liter, so the exchange rate comes into play, too. It was €1.47 when we left, €1.57 now. Included in the price we pay is a tax on the tax, which you don't get hit with in the USA.

[PortTack]

5. Brought to you by your russian loving qgop and their hack of the pipeline!

Russia..helping out their friends...ppl get pissed here when gas prices rise. This is a direct shot at Biden.

[gldstwmn]

17. Agree. They're going to do everything

they can including voter suppression again and to kick the poor in the teeth by taking their $300 a week away in states with GOP governors. In the meantime the anti vax and anti mask crowd should come to grips with the fact that they are complicit in the deaths of 600,000 of their fellow countrymen.
But if anyone can beat these bastards it's Joe. I was very hesitant about his candidacy. But I was wrong. At least I can go to sleep at night with the reasonable assumption that I will wake up tomorrow.
And yes, this whole thing has shades of what they did to President Carter.

[onenote]

6. Multiple reasons:

https://www.pnj.com/story/news/2021/05/10/pensacola-gas-cyber-attack-causes-gas-shortages-local-stations/5022970001/

[cinematicdiversions]

8. $2.61 a gallon and no line at the Costco this morning.

Just North of Tampa. Must be a regional thing.

[keithsw]

9. Our little town in Western NC

Only has 4 gas stations and they all were out of gas by noon today

[hunter]

10. Been there, done that. Escaped a 70's gas station riot in Los Angeles when the pumps ran dry.

Hours of my life waiting in line, wasted. Angry people were vandalizing stuff when I fled.

Fortunately I had just enough gas to get home. Next day my brother drove me to work and picked me up. He'd scored a full tank of gas.

History never repeats itself but the echoes can be just as dangerous.

[gldstwmn]

18. And here we are still so dependent

on oil.

[LeftInTX]

11. No gas shortage in San Antonio yesterday

[csziggy]

12. Posted from in Tallahassee

The place where she got gas at the beginning of the video was in Miccosukee, Florida, about 10-12 miles east of Tallahassee.

I'm glad I filled up my Honda Fit at that Costco last week!

[MissB]

13. Picking up my EV this week

Sold my gas powered car this weekend for 90% of what I paid for it (used) three years ago.

We do still have a truck but it’s our brush dump truck, or our out of town truck. Pretty low usage overall. I filled it up this morning, because the fuel light was on not because of any shortage. It should last until June.

[alphafemale]

14. I live in Low Country SC and had just filled the tank.

Work from home and do not have to drive if I get deliveries.

I should be able to wait the pipeline shutdown out.

I do get a bit pissed when the stations raise the price of gas that was already in their underground tanks for a week.

[NutmegYankee]

15. It's related to the Colonial Pipeline shutdown - caused by ransomware.

The pipeline has been restarted and you should have gas with a day or so.

Interestingly, Connecticut seemed unaffected. We must get our supplies from tanker terminals on the Long Island Sound and not from the New Jersey terminus of this pipeline.

[customerserviceguy]

16. Yep

Happening here in coastal South Carolina. The first station we went to was out of gas, the second one had a long line for the pair of pumps that were still working. And we're talking about 10:45 on Monday night, I predict that by Wednesday, there will not be any gasoline in our area, unless this thing gets fixed.

And I lived through it, too, '73 and '79. And Hurricane Sandy while I was living in the Northeast. It's one of the reasons I bought my hybrid car in 2012, I wanted to have a vehicle that could get my ass to work through a two week crisis on one fill.

[Rhiannon12866]

19. Gas is over $3-a-gallon as of today here in NE New York

It's been steadily rising, has been stuck at $2.99 most places, so we knew it was just a matter of time.

I've belonged to GasBuddy for a long time - since gas prices went up significantly before. It lists gas prices in your area - and whether they have gas at all:

https://www.gasbuddy.com/