Left Tampa Fl area this am, filled up as I was leaving Floridia, got into Tenn slightly below 1/2 tank and stopped at 3 stations till I found diesel, all were out of fuel. 2 were also out or almost out of gas. Prices atarted at $2.77 up to $2.99 so far. Visiting in Tenn tomorrow, Friday, and home to Mi Sometime Sat as long as I can find fuel.

Got re routed in the Gulf of Mexico to Port everglades on our aniversary cruise, 6 hour bus ride (was better than the 30 foot waves in Tampa bay) and no fuel getting home. Think someone is trying to tell me something.

Good luck to all on the road and God Bless to all in the Devistated Gulf regions.

Don

This fuel situation could cripple the country is nothing is done soon...

Im in Charleston SC at the moment for the month, the HESS down the street was sold out last night, however at like 8pm today they had a tanker there filling the station up.

I heard on the radio driving home tonight that 3 of the major airports in the US are running very low on jet fuel so imagine what that'll do to things.

It's all a load of bs....we have the fuel it is a ploy by the greedy oil companies to make more money.......The ceo's of the the oil companies, refineries and such should be hauled outside and have the **** kicked out of them. Like I have said before....oil and insurance are going to break this country.

Local news is reporting gas stations are recieving notice from their distributors to sell specific amounts of fuel per day.
Overages will result in reductions in future shipments.

It's all a load of bs....we have the fuel it is a ploy by the greedy oil companies to make more money.......The ceo's of the the oil companies, refineries and such should be hauled outside and have the **** kicked out of them. Like I have said before....oil and insurance are going to break this country.

[deadhors]

Go tell that to my friends right now. Working 24/7 over there right now trying to repair the pumping stations, replacing motors and trying to get emergency generators in to start the pipelines back up.

So what are you doing to help?

MikeyB

[deadhors]

Go tell that to my friends right now. Working 24/7 over there right now trying to repair the pumping stations, replacing motors and trying to get emergency generators in to start the pipelines back up.

So what are you doing to help?

MikeyB

Complaining, hoping it will make you work faster............. [whistle] [tapdshut]

Complaining, hoping it will make you work faster............. [whistle] [tapdshut]

Doing so usually makes me work slooooweeer...... [laugh]

MikeyB

Doing so usually makes me work slooooweeer...... [laugh]

MikeyB

Actually, I'm conserving by riding the Harley to work.
That leaves more gas for the scoccer moms in the Ford Excusions to fight over.
5 gallons will last me a week.
Take your time......... [laugh]

I want to get my new coolant in the truck, it has flush in the radiator right now so after this week I'll probably park the Dodge and get out the MB. 21mpg versus 31+mpg. :)

[deadhors]

So what are you doing to help?

MikeyB
I quit burning diesel (well almost, I still start and shut down on it) a year ago. I got over 3200 miles on my last full tank. Converting to WVO has saved 800-1000 gallons for someone else to burn.
Ken

I just went and filled up at lunch cuz guys got me all paranoid :) There is no rationing or outage here as far as I know of. I paid 2.80 for 50 cetane diesel supreme, and filled to the brim. I figure I should stock up since prices are going nuts. I may start riding my go-ped to work, it gets 120mpg lol.... I dont know if I could take the chiding and harassment that comes with riding it though...;)

A barrel of crude costs $70. To refine it costs another $7-14. To market it costs another $10. So, roughly the net price, before taxes (fed & state) = $2.24/gal. The feds get 0.24 and my state adds 0.14. That makes it $2.62/gal. We have one of the lowest state tax on fuel. Currently in Cody the price of diesel is $2.999, in Billings it's 2.799 (which has one of the highest state fuel taxes at 0.2775)

It's funny I haven't seen anything on the refineries being down(I have heard about it ) but thats all.....all you see on tv is that new orleans is flooded......I would think that if it is that bad for the refineries(sp) you would see them on the news since everyone is BIT****, They haven't let one camera crew in the refineries since this has all happened....just sounds a little funny to me........ Just another play to rape the american public. But since you have never compained you can go ahead and speak....Mikey B.

Well, IF the gas prices are a result of higher crude prices, then it stands to reason that the higher crude prices would result in a higher gas prices.

Example......30 bucks a barrel (long time ago), and gas was 75 cents/gal. So, at 60 bucks a barrel, gas should be 1.50/gal. but we all know it was 2.50/gal. So, where is all that extra money going


BUT, since the gas companies are reporting record profits, I have a hard time believing it is anything other than price gouging on a nationwide level.

Like was said, when gas prices fall, it takes a long time, but when there is any excuse to raise the price, it goes up immediately.

If it wasn't greed, then the price of gas should not have gone up at all, but when it was sold out, it was sold out. Instead, they raise the price and get twice as much money for it until it runs out. That is simple greed at work. There was no REASON/NEED to raise prices on the gas that was ALREADY sitting in the tanks of the gas stations when the current issues arise. But they did, because they could.

If the prices hadn't shot up like they did, no one would have paniced and ran out and filled every container they had with gas.

The pure unadulterated greed of most americans are what is gonna drive this countries economy into the ground, and soon, english will be a second language...with Chinese being the primary.


I wonder how long it wil be before employers realize that with the current gas prices, it won't be long before their employees will start 'not showing up' cuz they can't afford the gas to go to work to pay for the gas.

Don't you know...refinery staff get free fuel if they keep their mouth shut about all the fuel/oil the refineries have.
Mike :D

It's funny I haven't seen anything on the refineries being down(I have heard about it )....Mikey B.

I'm guessing that the Chevron unit at Port Fourchon is closed on account of the LOOP being hit head on and the road being washed out. But I haven't heard about the refinery units in Baton Rouge. There were two oil rigs set adrift, but there wasn't any spillage.

Our governor really laid it heavy on the two in state refineries that supply 99% of Montana's fuel today for raising prices 10-20¢ a gallon.
Absolutely no reason for this since all of our crude comes from Montana, Wyoming and Alberta.