Just filled up both my cars - wholesale gas prices going thru roof down south

One 76 station near me had gas for a few days, then ran out again. I guess the BP across the corner from them still has gas, but I'm not sure.

With maybe 100 miles left before I get worried, I don't want to pay $3.99 but may end up doing that anyway. Amazing how the shortage/high pricing can drag on when needed to gain back lost revenue...

 

No gas at either station now. Refineries not back online yet is the 'reason'. I hate buying $5.00 worth of expensive gas just to limp by, but really soon I'll have to.

If I last until Sunday it will be three weeks on a tank. Whoopee...

 

really. I see gas around here at $3.69 and only once in a while see pumps with bags on them. Im supposed to think those pumps are "out" but I know better. There are two tanks in the ground feeding all the pumps so no way can some of the pumps be out. They are just slowing down the next truck delivery some.

 

Three weeks on a tank. I finally bought a few gallons of gas at $3.79 (too high to get a lot) since I'd gone 439 miles @ 45MPG, but I did have to pass by my local BP again when they ran out once more. Didn't see any other stations with no gas but it might have been a good day.

News report said 2 more weeks before complete restore. Maybe THEN the price will go back down...

 

i passed 4 stations on friday looking for a place to fill up. i ended up waiting about 10 minutes and paying 3.83. the guy next to me said he passed several stations that were out of gas too.

 

man i just paid 3.52 @ costco here in the valley. stations around here have been kosher the whole time.

 

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I'm sorry, I know I'm new and I shouldn't make "controversial" points straight away....but let me fill you in on the reality here Zen.

Houston has 2 million people in its inner loop, and something like 4.5 million in the general area. After Tropical Storm Gustav hit, mayor Bill White saw how screwed up it was to tell everybody to evacuate; EVERY highway was bumper-to-bumper for days. The biggest road out of Houston is US-59, that has I believe between 6-8 lanes depending where you go; and few exits (relatively). Then theres the Katy Freeway (I-10) which has four at most parts. Theres also US-290 and I-45, both of which are in the four lane area. Sounds like a lot of roads, but not when there was THREE MILLION PEOPLE EVACUATING.

White saw that even with the most creative planning, it would be damned hard to get everyone in Houston out in time for any kind of major natural disaster; he got a good dose of this after Gustav, so for Ike he said "Don't evacuate. Get supplies. Hunker down." and so we did, myself included.

I personally did not need any rescue aid; the absolute worst thing that happened to my condo (located in the inner loop near Beltway 8 and Westheimer for reference) was that the power went out. I STILL have a shit-ton of food left over that I bought a week before the storm hit. I went 10 days without power, and that was the only thing I wanted - electricity. Fortunately, I can say that my Prius served me well; I was able to get out of the heat occasionally by sitting in the car with the A/C on. With how gas efficient the Prius is, I went through only about 15 gallons in the ten days from right before the storm hit until power was restored in my area.

Everyone else at my condoplex was in the same situation - lots of food, lots of water, lots of charcoal/propane, just no damned power. We all did well, and in fact we had a lot of parties just for fun.

Everyone that I talked to was in the same situation as me - we're just fine, plenty of supplies, we just don't like the heat much. Please give us our power back!

I don't know where you live, but I would bet you would not like it if a huge natural disaster hit your area and lots of people were in a desperate situation, yourself included. IN particular, if you couldn't evacuate. If that happened, you can bet the tax dollars of the residents of Houston would be spent helping your nice person out. So please, please don't bitch about the state's second largest city being hit with a disaster.

 

It was Rita that was the real clusterf*** as far as evacuations go when I was in Houston. Lucky for us it hit a bit farther north east. They won't try to do a big evacuation there again because Texas can't manage the roads to get you out. Realizing this, we left the region. Happiness is Houston in the rearview mirror!

 

I was referring to the people on the island, actually.