Sigh: fear of gas shortage amidst Alabama pipeline leak, causes Metro Atlanta to go into a gas hoarding panic
I like the people bitching about the cost of a fill-up hitting $33. Did they not live here in the ancient time of 2009?
The state of Georgia was put into a state of emergency because there pretty much was no gas, on account of a hurricane or something. Gas was at $4+ a gallon, and provided you could find a station that had gas, they were often times a $40 limit, which in most cars, would not equate to a full tank of gas.
And then we have people complaining about $33 to get 17 gallons now. How quickly we forget perspective and live in the present.
The worst part about all this is that in my opinion, it’s the fear of a gas shortage that has caused people to panic, and actually create a gas shortage, because they all went out en masse to hoard fuel and fill up everything they could. And I’ve got a quarter of a tank left, and will probably need to fill up within the next day or two.
And honestly? As someone who can actually remember as far back as seven years, where I waited 20 minutes to pay $40 for 5/6 of my tank, then this “scare” is bullshit, and people are doing what people do: being stupid.
What is going to suck though, is that this spiking in prices is going to get all the petro companies all used to the influx of money all over again, and I can’t imagine that once the “scare” dies down, the prices are really going to follow suite. That’s the way of the world unfortunately, and all I can really do is wish I were Nightcrawler or Quicksilver, and didn’t need a car to go about my business.
But here we go again, another gas scare in Georgia. What is this, 1980?
