when a city runs out of gas

[G_j]

one gets a very sobering lesson on just how vulnerable we are. Just a few days without gas, and a community is effected on many levels.
Our society is actually very fragile.
(Asheville NC and some other areas in the SE have been experiencing severe gasoline shortages.
It has been interesting..)

[Seen the light]

1. Charlotte is completely out

So says my parents that live there. A few people have been assaulted waiting in line. And now there's not a single station left that they know of.

[shadowknows69]

2. Might want to think about a lock on your tank

If they can't get it at the pumps peoplel will take it elsewhere.

[hedgehog]

3. Better to have people siphon gas from your tank than to poke an ice pick

though your tank because you have a locking gas cap!

[shadowknows69]

4. Good point. Never thought of it like that

Lousy fuel thief I'd make eh? lol.

[spanone]

5. nashville tn....we've just had a week of no gas or very little....still hard to find premium

3.89 for reg. 4.09 for premium.....if you can find it

[dysfunctional press]

9. those are the prices outside chicago- and we've got plenty.

nt

[RoyGBiv]

6. Does anyone remember the 70's?

Seriously.

I don't mean to minimize your turmoil. This isn't really directed *at* you, but all this talk recently about shortages has reminded me just how long it has been since we've dealt with this kind of thing for an extended period of time. I went a week recently without being able to get gasoline myself and managed to discover my feet and legs still functioned. Fortunately, I didn't have to go to work during that week and so had an advantage.

But I remember the 70s, frequent and extended shortages, and long lines when gasoline was available. I remember driving from Oklahoma to North Dakota with my family one summer and getting stuck in Rapid City because there was no gas anywhere. There were six of us, and we could only barely afford to rent one room for all of us in a fleabag motel. We survived it, of course, and it sucked, of course.

What scares me more than shortages or financial meltdowns is how quickly we forget how these things affect us and how we (myself included) naively refuse to prepare ourselves for it by constructing our lives so we have to have these things that could be gone almost in an instant.

It is quite sobering.

[KoKo]

7. yes...I do....it was not pretty... That, and hostages cost Carter Re-election....

along with Olympics we didn't get to send our athletes to and the Repugs on his tail just like with Clinton...but..yes..it was a terrible time.

[phusion]

8. Seems to me that...

it's a good time to invest in bicycles!