Nashville Runs Out Of Gas
I have never seen anything like it. I traveled from the east side of Nashville to the west side this evening, and if I had stopped at the one or two stations that still had gas, it would have taken hours to get some, and who knows, they may have run out before my turn.
Can you relate? Do you know when we will have gas again, or where in the suburbs they still have it? I heard it might not be until next week.
One more thing, I’m not sure what he did, but this has somehow got to be George Bush’s fault.
I just tried to get gas. About half are closed in M’boro, the other half are pretty busy and charging $4.25 for reg.
I was listening to extremist conservative radio host Michael Savage. He called Bush a fiscal socialist and blamed the republicans for creating a move toward gov’t run financial systems, a state run economy like China.
This gas shit is pretty scary. Glad I drive a 38mpg Civic.
I agree, so does Michael Savage, it IS George Bush’s fault. Vote for change.
Yeah, yeah and if Bush had signed the Kyoto treaty we wouldn’t have had any hurricanes. That son of a bitch.
Seriously, Savage is an idiot, an absolute disgrace. You and him are a lot alike, like mirror images of one another.
Btw, I was in my 30 something mph Corrolla (not the 16 mph V8 Tundra). I couldn’t believe how far I went on no gas. I was prepared to walk, but somehow made it home. Thank goodness for the lawn mower gas.
I’ve heard stories of multiple fistfights at the BP station on Almaville Rd. in Smyrna.
As long as I can make it to the Titans game on Sunday, I’ll be just fine. There’s fuel coming in next week, when the pipeline reopens.
I hope..
Who is this Savage of whom you speak? My radio never allows such utterances as his to spew forth.
I’d much rather listen to NPR, really. Or one of those hard-to-tune AM stations in New Orleans or Cincy or St. Louis…or that one in Chicago, giving drive-times in minutes.
Suckers.
Fuck the government! I want my hard-earned dollars to go to Exxon!
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I laugh at all of you, having filled up my 2004 Yamaha Vino Classic for $5.12 (a record, btw!). I can only go about eight days of normal travel on that.
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Yeah, but I can run over you in my pickup.
Truthfully though, I respect anybody that saves money. Scooters, low CC motorcycles are cool with me.
Yeah, but I can run over you in my pickup.
Yeah, but you’re not Rusty or Odd.
You seem to actually have a conscience, at times.
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All this while the state and the oil industry spokesmen blame the high prices and shortage on… the consumer. Seems that the state has no way to define “gouging” and the paltry $1000 fine would hardly seem fit as a deterrence for the gas wholesalers that have made an easy five million dollars in excess profits in TN this week alone.
Consumers want to blame it on the station owners, while the real crooks are the wholesalers. Of course they make big contributions to campaigns and you can bet that as long as the Republicans are in power with their “hidden hand-markets are perfect” mentality we will continue to be financially raped at every opportunity. http://www.markmartinphoto.com/
JP, answer me this: how in the world do you manage to carry those 50-lb. bags of cat litter from Wal-Mart to your house three times a week, on your scooter? I know you’ve some inherent imbalances, but that’s got to be rough.
I guess you could get the small 20-lb. bags and make a trip or two every day..
Mark Martin, how long have you been a socialist?
Federal bailouts = socialism
The McCain - Bush idea of privatizing social security doesn’t look so good right now. McSame STILL supports it. McSame defended his support for privately investing Social Security money in the same markets that had tanked earlier in the week.
Nice
Mark Martin, you have this all wrong. The anti-gouging laws are the cause of this shortage. If gas stations were allowed to charge what they want, you know respond to demand, a few of them would still have gas right now. Running out of gas a 3.99 is absurd. I wish I’d had a truckload of two and a half gallon containers full of gas. I would have sold them for twenty, thirty dollars each until the storm troopers arrested me.
I was supposed to go somewhere this morning. Last night after making it home on fumes, I poured the lawnmower gas into the car thinking I’d get some this morning. Wrong, I barely made it back to the house. Oh well, I have plenty of Diet Coke, Miller Lite, eggs, and bacon. I’ll make it.
Btw Mark Martin, I hope Kyle Busch puts you in the wall this Sunday.
Glen, some kinfolk in Stevens tell me that they’ve plenty of gas. No worries.
Most gas stations will refill today. I had to work this morning though. Guess I’ll just have to sit home and watch the Bama game, then the UT-UF game, then Auburn and LSU. Poor me. Roll Tide!
Oddly, none of the TV stations could figure out that they were major contributors to the situation. I mean, they helped fuel (no pun intended) the panic then breathlessly reported their handiwork.
What did the hope to accomplish?
Oh, that’s right. Fear produces higher viewer numbers.
Nevermind.
I linked at @TAC. Go Vols!
http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2008/09/20/out-of-gas/
Vols? Bama?
Oh, the NFL’s *cough*cough*minor league*cough* feeder teams.
I usually wait for the draft to check out those prospects..
;D
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Mark my words - this fuel shortage is a democratic dirty trick - forced on us by the democratic governor and mayor to punish the republican majority in middle tennessee. I bet they knew about it - they still do nothing!
Definitely a regional thing. Notice no one is paying any attention to it on a national scale.
There’s plenty more serious things to worry about than a bunch of redneck hicks running out of fuel.
They actually made fun of us on CNN news.. likening Nashvillians to the people who “stock up on bread and milk every time it snows.”
It’s really irritating that it was an announcement on the news that stated we’d run out of gas by Friday.. I don’t know of anyone who got more than one they needed after that announcement…
At any rate - it was noticed on the CNN headline news - and sadly - nobody does care about a bunch of rednecks running out of fuel. I’m sure if it was their city it would be much more important.