Gas crisis

[bigschweeler]

Last night I drove by 15 different gas stations that were completely out of gas. I finally found one that had some, and waited almost an hour and a half to fill up. The whole valley is like that right now.

There was even one station in Phoenix that was charging $3.47 for a gallon of gas!!

Apparently there is a problem with a pipeline from Tuscon that is getting repaired and in the meantime we have to rely on trucks running up here from Tuscon for our gas.

So once the news got out everyone started stockpiling gas, putting it in milk containers, and topping off every chance they could.

 

[bigschweeler]

Apparently the exec from the pipeline company is meeting with our governor today to discuss the issue. The pipeline company were informed by inspectors that they could still operate it at 50% capacity, and possibly increase it to 80% assuming everything was working correctly.

However, they decided on their own to completely shut it down and now we're in this "crisis".

So the only way Phoenix is getting gas right now if from trucks coming up from Tuscon.

The thing that sucks is I only have enough gas left in my truck to maybe make it to one or two stations that are close. Looks like I'll be calling all day asking "do you have gas yet."

Fun, fun.

 

[WODIN]

Ouchie.... I bet an exec from Exxon-mobile blew the line.

 

[bigschweeler]

Buy and electric car. That'll show em!

Yeah, but I need gas to do that....It's ironic...don't ya think?

 

[WODIN]

Buy and electric car. That'll show em!

 

[Bullit]

Yeah, but I need gas to do that....It's ironic...don't ya think?

Very!

 

[tuc biscuit]

Yeah, but I need gas to do that....It's ironic...don't ya think?

I was once ina very similar situation; I had a black fly in my chardonnay.

 

[Ffactor]

Dang, I thought this was a fart thread. At what time today did you release your stinkiest fart??

 

[alien amp pharm]

Buy one of these:

 

[bigschweeler]

Buy one of these:

LOL....too bad I live 30 minutes outside of town. I've begun the "do you have gas yet" phone calls which I'll be making every 30 minutes. Otherwise I'm stuck at home the whole day. BORING!

 

[HUCKLEBERRY FINNaplex]

It's great,hundreds of our guys have given their lives over oil,and yet the damn gas prices are rapidly climbing while we have control of the pipelines.Somebody's pockets are getting fatter...And fatter...And fatter...Awesome.

 

[WODIN]

Time to order a segway.

 

[bigschweeler]

It's great,hundreds of our guys have given their lives over oil,and yet the damn gas prices are rapidly climbing while we have control of the pipelines.Somebody's pockets are getting fatter...And fatter...And fatter...Awesome.

You are telling me.

As I mentioned earlier one station in Phoenix is selling gas for $3.83 this morning...I just heard that they raised their price from yesterday evening.

Fortunately I paid $1.89 last night and my wife was able to get to work today. But our other vehicle is on low fuel and I have to wait for the local station to get a shipment of gas from a truck. Who knows when that will happen, but the gas they get will probably only last a day if that.

You don't realize how you take being able to get gas for granted. When it's not there it really fucks things up.

 

[bigschweeler]

OK, so I've called 15 different gas stations and none of them have gas.

This is fucking great!

 

[Y_lifter]

Did you call Mckenzie Phillips ?

 

[bigschweeler]

Did you call Mckenzie Phillips ?

Nope. And I didn't call Anna GASteyer from SNL either.