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Prisoner_Number_Six Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 08:52 PM
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Five empty gas stations in a row- this place has gone nuts.
I was in Addison (Dallas) doing some work, and had planned to gas up on the way home. Too bad all the gas stations were out of gas! A good thing I finally found an open pump-- a Shell station pricing theirs at $2.66. Remarkable, to say the least. That particular little station is usually far and away the most expensive!
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progmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 08:55 PM
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1. Here in Ann Arbor there was a long wait for gas at the nearest station...
It was 9:30 at night, and there were 4 or 5 cars waiting at each pump. :wtf:
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 08:55 PM
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2. Empty as in "Out of Gas"? In Addison? Whoa! n/t
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Prisoner_Number_Six Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 08:57 PM
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3. Yep.
All the nozzles, including diesel, sacked.
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 09:10 PM
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7. If this is happening in lily-white Addison....
the people driving up from Houston are screwed.
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salin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 08:57 PM
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4. word around Indiana is that gas will climb to 4.00 tomorrow am
but I had no problem finding a number of stations at 2.69 with no line... yet...
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NJCher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 08:58 PM
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5. I filled my tank with no problems at 2.85 a gallon this a.m.
Cher
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ellie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 10:00 PM
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15. We topped off the
Honda tonite for $2.53 a gallon at a Citgo station. It was packed.
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gulfcoastliberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 09:10 PM
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6. Civilization is very very fragiile
A fact that's hiding in plain sight.
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barb162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 09:27 PM
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12. thanks for mentioning that; I was thinking of doing a thread
Edited on Thu Sep-22-05 09:52 PM by barb162
just on that subject. And we are just about at our limits on energy( and civilization)and I think things will deteriorate soon.
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gulfcoastliberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-23-05 01:49 PM
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16. You should!
I'm glad I never had kids. What kind of place are we leaving for the future generations? It's like we're all republicans in that sense: leaving behind an unimaginable mess for others to clean up later.
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 09:14 PM
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8. Well, dummy, according to Gov.Perry it's ALL YOUR FAULT. He
warned everybody two days ago to gas up and get out. What's your excuse? If you get caught out in the storm and die, it's your own fault.

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:
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Booster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 09:19 PM
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9. Not that I'm one bit cynical, but do you think they're just saying
they're out of gas because they know in the next week they can charge $5 per gallon for it? It's just suspicious that they would all run out at the same damn time, and the worst possible time for the people.
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Toots Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-23-05 01:56 PM
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17. If they have a gas station left that is....
:shrug: just saying...
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 09:22 PM
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10. Archetypal auto-town Dallas won't enjoy the post-petro world. eom
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crispini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 09:25 PM
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11. Dallas, proper, is a fine city for cycling.
Lots of small residential streets that you can go a long way on. Also, it's very flat. We have a fine set of marked bike routes (on street).

Of course, nobody but us nuts knows this. And it's true, the burbs suck.

I think we're gonna get a few more nuts out there, tho.
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 09:32 PM
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14. I did use to bike when I lived there decades ago -- but the drivers ..
.. were extremely belligerant ... I couldn't use major thoroughfares and could barely cross them safely, even with a traffic light ... That was in the era of "drive 90 -- freeze a yankee" bumperstickers when many Texans were proud to say only commies wanted recycling ...
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barb162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 09:29 PM
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13. The evacuation and the reporters talking about people going
a hundred miles in 14 hours, and everyone running out of gas, etc., shows the TX evacuation plan isn't going so hot.
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