Gas stations closing in Atlanta "out of fuel"

[Bo]

I have received calls from friends asking where they can buy gas.

[mnhtnbb]

1. Gas lines in Carrboro, NC

I got gas where cars were waiting in line tonight after hearing on the radio that our Governor had advised there would be gas shortages as a result of the pipe lines from Louisiana being down.

[KyndCulture]

2. ok wtf is going on in Atlanta...

I keep hearing all these stories from Atlanta... 5.00 gas, gas shortages now they are closing the stations... I live near Minneapolis and that's not happening up here? Why just atlanta?

[CottonBear]

4. See this thread: Gov. Perdue (R) decalred an "energy emergency"

and said no price gouging would be allowed but didn't do a damn thing to stop it and it's the first thing that happened.
It is chaotic and frantic at the gas stations here in the Athens, GA area. Some stations were out by 2:30 pm today.
:scared:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4533428

edit: The big Colonial and Plantation pipe lines run right through GA from the refineries on the Gulf Coast. The refineries and oil rigs are down and out due to storm and no electricity. Some oil rigs are gone or washed ashore. Oil industry workers have no homes or may be dead. 95% of Gulf oil and gas production is stopped.
25% of our oil and gas come fromthe Gulf.

[kenny blankenship]

5. We're a little crazy.

you might have sensed that watching the people most of the Atlanta area sends to DC. Gingrich, Bob Barr, Saxby Shameless, Zell Miller.

My representatives have been largely agreeable to me: John Lewis, Cynthia McKinney, but I live in intown areas. Out in the *flight zones outside the perimeter, you have to understand that the mentality is different like the elections are different. Those people living in *flight areas inhabit a kind of perpetual panic. Something is going to eat them. They're sure of this and that's why they keep moving out moving out, buying bigger faster trucks and cars and guns and voting for major league crazies like Bob Barr. (McKinney is no model of mental health I'll grant you, but folks on the other side of the aisle like Barr and Gingrich are representative of the pervasively militant irrational and paranoid Republicanism that bubbles around Atlanta like a witches cauldron.)

[htuttle]

6. I would expect that since Georgia had a pipeline from the Gulf refineries

...there weren't many large-scale gas storage terminals, as there are in the rest of the country. Which would mean that Georgia might have less gas on hand at any given time than Minnesota.

I heard at the gas station today in WI that the terminal was out of gas, so all they have is what they currently have in the ground. I'm not sure if he was talking about the Port of Milwaukee gas terminal, or the much smaller one here in Madison.

In any case, the refineries have been down since the day before the hurricane. Regional and local distributors don't keep much more than 10 days of supply on hand at any given time.

It's entirely possible that MN and WI will be looking at shortages by or after the weekend, unless they get the Gulf refineries going tommorrow or so. They have no electricity right now, so that's unlikely.

[CottonBear]

3. We got a heads up from a local fed employee about 1:30 pm today

She had gotten an e-mail about Gov. Perdue's speech and started spreading the word. It was WILD. Lines everywhere. Chaotic and frantic. Tanks running dry. I filled up and am Mr. CottonBear filled up the other two cars and we filled up two gas cans.

[dogday]

7. Well I would say it is Oil Storm now

Oil Storm was the name of a movie that claimed just this exact event. A Huge unexpected storm slams into NO tearing up the refineries and drilling platform. This eventually leads to rationing, then lack of gas completely.