Gas Supply Is Gone; Sitting Tight...

[motordavid]

For the next several days here in HillbillyHeaven.

I noticed huge lines at several gas stations today, while running some errands in town. In my lil' town, most stations are out or v.low and limiting buys to 10-30 bucks. And, regular is $3.10-3.25 here. (It was 2.45 a couple days ago.)

Watching the local news out of Asheville this afternoon, it was explained that the major pipeline that flows most of the refined gasoline north through GA, SC,NC and VA, from the Gulf area, is shut down due to no power to pump and flow gasoline through this line.
The talkingheads say, that the pipeline guys say, that it may be early to mid next week before it's running. In our case, this pipeline supposedly dumps into a big terminal in Spartanburg,SC, (yeah, that S'burg), and 18 wheeler tanker trucks flow in and out 24/7 for delivery to gas stations in western NC, upstate SC, etc. Thus, no supply, no gas, no ticket, no wash.

We were going to see friends in TN this weekend, but we may just sit tight. The 3 cars each have over 1/2 tank, but I don't wanna get stuck or sit in some line for hours.

Beyond that slight inconvenience, the utter despair for most people affected by 'Cane K in LA, MS, AL, etc., is beyond comprehension, imo. My opin is there will be be some serious short to med. term ramifications from this disaster. For most of those people, life in the ol'USA, may never be the same, again. BR,md