Ahyoka
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...is anyone else in the U.S having severe fuel shortages?
Here where I live in Alabama things are starting to get hectic. They started rationing gas, and the county I live in is completely out. Thankfully, where I live is very close to the county line so where I get my gas is the next county over. But our neighboring county is quickly running out and as of right now there are only a few gas stations with gas and they are going to be out by tonight. The city of Talladega only had one gas station with gas and the police had to be called to keep order at the pumps, but the word from the gas station owners is that they won't have gas until mid-next week
I have never seen so many people buying gas before. The place I get mine is a tiny country store and people from 20 miles away were buying the max amount of gas ($30 max w/gas at 3.99 a gallon) and people were lined up to get it....and to make it worse, our fire department's piece of shit brush truck only had 1/8th of a tank of gas, which is dangerous because that behemoth's fuel economy is more effectively measured in 100's of Feet per gallon rather than Miles per gallon, so an 1/8th of a tank is pretty risky. All we could do was put a 5 gallon bucket's worth of gas in it so it would have enough to even get to the store (if they even have gas by tomorrow)...if anything bad happens we're f***ed.
All this just don't set right with me, folks around here are getting kinda anxious and I just hope this event won't be the harbinger for worse things to come.
Here where I live in Alabama things are starting to get hectic. They started rationing gas, and the county I live in is completely out. Thankfully, where I live is very close to the county line so where I get my gas is the next county over. But our neighboring county is quickly running out and as of right now there are only a few gas stations with gas and they are going to be out by tonight. The city of Talladega only had one gas station with gas and the police had to be called to keep order at the pumps, but the word from the gas station owners is that they won't have gas until mid-next week
I have never seen so many people buying gas before. The place I get mine is a tiny country store and people from 20 miles away were buying the max amount of gas ($30 max w/gas at 3.99 a gallon) and people were lined up to get it....and to make it worse, our fire department's piece of shit brush truck only had 1/8th of a tank of gas, which is dangerous because that behemoth's fuel economy is more effectively measured in 100's of Feet per gallon rather than Miles per gallon, so an 1/8th of a tank is pretty risky. All we could do was put a 5 gallon bucket's worth of gas in it so it would have enough to even get to the store (if they even have gas by tomorrow)...if anything bad happens we're f***ed.
All this just don't set right with me, folks around here are getting kinda anxious and I just hope this event won't be the harbinger for worse things to come.