So far I've been lucky and not had to pay more than $2.78 /gal for gas. It has been as high as $2.99/gal for regular unleaded (and goes up from there for the 'better' gas), but one of the gas stations on my way home had it for $2.56 up till they ran out. Now, for the past week, the gas at the other local stations on my way home (which are the cheapest in the area) have gas for $2.78/gal, if they still have gas. A number of gas stations have run out of gas, and have been out for 3-5 days now, with no assurances of when they'll get their next load in.
Did many of you see the made-for-tv-movie "Oil Storm"? I think a lot of the panic with gas prices and such is because of the coincidence of what the context was of that movie and the reality of Hurricane Katrina. And because we get our gas from the fields in Mississippi and Louisianna, here in the south, specifically AL, we are running out of gas and hoping to be able to get some from some of the other gas pipelines (ie: TX) before it becomes critical. Heaven knows I'm not letting my van fall below 3/4 of a tank of gas, a) because it's cheaper to only put 1/4 tank of gas in (approx $20.00 a fill-up) but also b) because who knows when we'll be short on gas at all the stations and I'll need to be able to not fill up for a while. Oh, and some of our gas stations are limiting the amount of gas you can buy at one time. The worst is the gas station on the military base. There, you're limited to $15.00 of gas at any one time, because they were the first ones to run out and have been getting gas from other military installations (those shipments redirected to us here) in order to continue to be able to offer any at all. So that's yet another reason to keep my gas tank as full as possible.
Here's hoping that things start improving in the next couple of weeks, else I may just have to walk... Wonder how long it'd take to walk from home to the office, if it's a 30 minute car ride... Hmmm....
CountriGal
Peer Moderator Edited by countrigal on 09/09/05 04:28 PM.
