There is no gas in Charlotte. Something about oil companies having a monopoly on the market and dragging their feet to get back online after Hurricane Ike. Gas stations in much of the southeast are not getting their full shipments and people are starting to panic. Mix the two and you get a lot of empty pumps.
I actually have enough in my tank for another 100 miles and I passed up two chances to fill up early in the day because the authorities are telling everyone to be patient and only take what they need. My altruistic side won out.
They say more is on the way and tomorrow things should be better. Or by the weekend, for sure. But that means trusting the oil companies (hah, right) and the Governor who swears he's been talking to the oil companies (course he's in Raleigh where they have plenty of gas).
Trust schmust. When I got home tonight, a friend called desperate because she's on E . We went out with my gas can and drove for probably 30 minutes before I had to finally call it quits out of fear I'd run out of gas, too. Not a single station had anything - regular, premium, super. Nada. Nothing. Just one gas station after another with pumps tied up in plastic shopping bags to signal "No gas here. Move on please."
Altruism be damned. This is capitalism. I bet everyone's topping off their tanks the minute they find a pump with some petrol. And after my failed quest tonight, I'm doing the same thing tomorrow, first open pump I see.
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