Gas Availability

[spinDrAtl]

Gas just down the road from me here in N. Atl was 3.19 for regular yesterday. I paid 2.69 the morning of the media induced panic and 2.45 Monday (the day of the storm).

One idiot was charging SEVEN to EIGHT dollars per gallon. People were paying it because they thought they might not get any anywhere else. His response to news media was that 'no one was coming in the store to buy lottery or groceries and he had to make money somehow.' He later reduced the price. Others around him were charging $4.00 to $4.99.

 

[aquaticbiology]

Sounds like regular Labor Day price increases. It went up 20 cents here in central alabama yesterday.

According to whispers of the station owners I talked to, gas will be back to normal approx 1 week after labor day, after they make their normal labor day profit. They can't do anything other than what they have always done (raise for the holiday) so they don't want to get in trouble with their gas supplier on one hand and the government (which they have convinced over the years that they have to raise prices on travel holidays to cover the 'refining shortfall' vs consumption increase). My grandmother said, "Awww. They been raising gas prices on labor day since the first station opened." Smart little old lady, I'd say.

Also heard from others that they're shifting the port of new orleans action to jacksonville, savanna and newport (virginia), so we can probably assume the reports are true that nola is a dead town.

Be safe

 

[SlowMovin]

What is current status of gas availability in South Walton today please??
Is there any reliable info on this via local media down there??
We plan to head down Saturday but now are not so sure. Friends at Sandestin tell us they had very hard time getting gas last night.
Thanks!!

PK305,
To answer your question, as of this morning there was gas at the Tom Thumb on 30-A in Seagrove. As of yesterday there was gas available in Panama City. I have not checked on Freeport or Sandestin since Tuesday, but there was gas then. However, convenience store owners in Freeport and Tallahassee said a couple of days ago they had been told not to expect deliveries until Saturday or Sunday.

Given the artificially low prices (that's right--artificially low) expect that when the gas does arrive we will see lines of cars topping off tanks and gas cans so that supplies will go back to being low until the next delivery.

 

[RiverOtter]

Gas just down the road from me here in N. Atl was 3.19 for regular yesterday. I paid 2.69 the morning of the media induced panic and 2.45 Monday (the day of the storm).

One idiot was charging SEVEN to EIGHT dollars per gallon. People were paying it because they thought they might not get any anywhere else. His response to news media was that 'no one was coming in the store to buy lottery or groceries and he had to make money somehow.' He later reduced the price. Others around him were charging $4.00 to $4.99.

Some jerk tried this in the Nooga. :nono1: Toooooo small a town. It hit the news and the reporters were on site. All of a sudden this guy couldn't speak english. Ironically nobody and I mean nobody is buying gas from his store.

 

[katie blue]

Gov. Perdue (GA) just issued serious fines for the gas gougers. $5000 per offense, and they consider an offense to be "a tank of gas sold." Yes! Also, until the end of Sept, he's suspeneding 15c/gallon gas tax, which will provide some relief.

 

[pk305]

SlowMovin
Thanks for your excellent response. Helps tremendously!

 

[Lady D]

Gas here should be rationed for tourists and saved for locals. Too many guzzlers from out of state.

What an ignorant statement that is! What are you Floridians going to do without those gas guzzling tourists that also guzzle all of your trinkets and beachwares? Maybe sell oranges and a lemon or two. In 2004 those foolish ,and I might add, by visiting Florida, rather desperate-for-fun(so-called) tourists contributed 59.8 BILLON DOLLARS in 2004 alone, to your otherwise stagnant, lethargic economy. Who the heck do you think is paying your taxes? Not YOU, that's for sure!

What they need to do is keep you lazy, incompetent locals at home and turn the tourists loose!

 

[Miss Kitty]

What an ignorant statement that is! What are you Floridians going to do without those gas guzzling tourists that also guzzle all of your trinkets and beachwares? Maybe sell oranges and a lemon or two. In 2004 those foolish ,and I might add, by visiting Florida, rather desperate-for-fun(so-called) tourists contributed 59.8 BILLON DOLLARS in 2004 alone, to your otherwise stagnant, lethargic economy. Who the heck do you think is paying your taxes? Not YOU, that's for sure!

What they need to do is keep you lazy, incompetent locals at home and turn the tourists loose!

Don't pay ez too much mind....it's not worth your sanity!

 

[Smiling JOe]

As I drove past the Tom Thumb at Hwy 331/98 this morning, I noticed prices for the mid-grade around $2.67 9/10 and prem at $2.77 9/10. I could only guess that regular is $2.57 9/10. Funny thing is that I said to myself, "I am glad that gas is only $2.57 per gallon. Last week at this time, I was saying $2.00 per gallon was ridiculus." I wonder how many people will forget that $2.00 per gallon is pricey?

 

[Smiling JOe]

What an ignorant statement that is! What are you Floridians going to do without those gas guzzling tourists that also guzzle all of your trinkets and beachwares? Maybe sell oranges and a lemon or two. In 2004 those foolish ,and I might add, by visiting Florida, rather desperate-for-fun(so-called) tourists contributed 59.8 BILLON DOLLARS in 2004 alone, to your otherwise stagnant, lethargic economy. Who the heck do you think is paying your taxes? Not YOU, that's for sure!

What they need to do is keep you lazy, incompetent locals at home and turn the tourists loose!

Ladydebubb60, FYI- EZ4144 is a pill. You need a little water to wash him down.

Also, I would like to say that I am neither lazy nor incompetent, and I am a local. I take offense to your statement.

I also bet you that I pay way more taxes to the local govt than you do as a tourist.