Consequence
1800 miles, 12mpg, fuel averaging $3.80 across five states. Utah, you fucking suck at road construction. Visit scenic Idaho:
Anyways, I return from vacation and suddenly I find out that we're experiencing a massive gas shortage. Or a massive rise in Southern stupidity, depending on how the story's been written. According to some experts, I've been hoarding gasoline since I started driving. I'm sorry. Meanwhile the Georgia governor is demanding that Bush open up the national reserves -- and taking other hamfisted measures against this localized shortage. On the flipside, North Carolina's governor is blasting fuel distributors for the supposed shortage.
So according to these reports, fuel supply is nearly at pre-hurricane levels, shipments are flowing uninterrupted across the country... demand is down, and has been down. Prices had been dropping, refineries were running at partial capacity, and distributors had cut their stockpiles all due to the decrease in fuel demand. Sensing a surge in fuel prices in the wake of the hurricane season, and having been presented with a convenient excuse, it appears that many fuel distributors in the Southeast are currently rebuilding their stockpiles and artificially cutting supplies. They've created a local crisis that has sparked nationwide fears, incompetent politicians rushing to set up an even larger crisis, and more discussion of the "peak oil" myth. Impressive.
Anyways, I return from vacation and suddenly I find out that we're experiencing a massive gas shortage. Or a massive rise in Southern stupidity, depending on how the story's been written. According to some experts, I've been hoarding gasoline since I started driving. I'm sorry. Meanwhile the Georgia governor is demanding that Bush open up the national reserves -- and taking other hamfisted measures against this localized shortage. On the flipside, North Carolina's governor is blasting fuel distributors for the supposed shortage.
So according to these reports, fuel supply is nearly at pre-hurricane levels, shipments are flowing uninterrupted across the country... demand is down, and has been down. Prices had been dropping, refineries were running at partial capacity, and distributors had cut their stockpiles all due to the decrease in fuel demand. Sensing a surge in fuel prices in the wake of the hurricane season, and having been presented with a convenient excuse, it appears that many fuel distributors in the Southeast are currently rebuilding their stockpiles and artificially cutting supplies. They've created a local crisis that has sparked nationwide fears, incompetent politicians rushing to set up an even larger crisis, and more discussion of the "peak oil" myth. Impressive.