East coast gas shortage

Im in Winston Salem, just took a quick drive to my parents (in the great big city of WELCOME) - passed half a dozen or so stations, all out.

Last night there was SOME gas. Now nothing.

Hopefully with pipeline back online it'll return soon, supposed to go to beach on Saturday (Dirty Myrtle).

My Fiesta has 440miles till empty, though I wanted to take the MR2, the fiesta gets a LOT better MPG and will run on 87

I'll cancel if I have to, wont be out anything - my parents own the house, so it's free to stay in - but we've been looking forward to this getaway

In reply to Dusterbd13-michael (Forum Supporter) :

I mean, you could cruise down here and I could rob you at gunpoint if it made you feel better.....

On a positive note for me, Terry Crews-cab laid down a blistering 24.1mpg average for the tank of 93 octane. So far I've 3000 miles including towing a 3700lb tractor on Big Tex for a stop and go 25 miles each way and a 150 mile 90mph drive it's pulling 20.6mpg. The high speed drive netted the worst economy obviously, in the low 17s. 

 KellyMofos HR-V is killing it with a 29.8mpg average either driven at 80 or in stop and go traffic. 

The best decisions we could have made was upgrading the Focus and the Wrangler.

hybridmomentspass said:

Im in Winston Salem, just took a quick drive to my parents (in the great big city of WELCOME) - passed half a dozen or so stations, all out.

Last night there was SOME gas. Now nothing.

Hopefully with pipeline back online it'll return soon, supposed to go to beach on Saturday (Dirty Myrtle).

My Fiesta has 440miles till empty, though I wanted to take the MR2, the fiesta gets a LOT better MPG and will run on 87

I'll cancel if I have to, wont be out anything - my parents own the house, so it's free to stay in - but we've been looking forward to this getaway

This is basically the situation I was in; wanted to got to my cabin in VA but didn't think I could get the gas I needed on the way.  Canceled my plans.  I'm not out anything but I really wanted to get away from work for a while.  Hard not to be a little bitchy about it.

its gotten a bit better overnight, likely will get worse today.

6am CT: % of stations without gas:

AL 9%

DC 47%

DE 5%

FL 31%

GA 49%

KY 3%

LA 0%

MD 34%

MS 7%

NC 71%

NJ 1%

SC 54%

TN 34%

TX 0%

VA 55%

WV 6%

I wonder how accurate Gas Buddy is.  I checked Winston Salem, and I only see 4 stations without fuel, but a lot with 'limited availability', which I am guessing means they only have premium.

Or maybe that is only diesel?

ProDarwin said:

I wonder how accurate Gas Buddy is.  I checked Winston Salem, and I only see 4 stations without fuel, but a lot with 'limited availability', which I am guessing means they only have premium.

Or maybe that is only diesel?

i think that is only diesel

Stock up but no sudden stops!

In reply to 914Driver :

It gets worse.

=~ 0

Never under estimate the stupidity of the common man

In reply to Javelin (Forum Supporter) :

I bet she can really light up a party. 

It looks like we have a winner (second shot is what they where carrying). 

News article (guess what state?):  https://www.chronicleonline.com/news/local/hummer-destroyed-in-fire-one-person-hurt/article_b7d2ba02-b34f-11eb-a432-cb80308881fa.html

I'm glad no one was seriously injured, but I feel bad being happy that one more H2 no longer exists.

I'll predict that they filled the four 5 gallon cans without actually taking the cans out of the truck (dangerous!)  Therefore, the rear portion of the truck filled with significant gas fumes which ignited shortly afterwards

My wife is finding GasBuddy to be very inaccurate in central SC. 
 

They say there is gas, but there isn't. 
 

I told her to stop worrying about it and stay home. 

In reply to aircooled :

In fairness, they probably needed those 20 extra gallons of gasoline just to make the 10 mile trip home. 

So apparently service was restored by...paying the ransom.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-13/colonial-pipeline-paid-hackers-nearly-5-million-in-ransom

Duke said:

SVreX (Forum Supporter) said:

Of course there is a gas shortage. Don't be ridiculous. Just because the cause was panic buying doesn't change the fact that there is a shortage of fuel. 

No, there isn't a shortage.  There is plenty of fuel supply.  It's just currently in the wrong places.

There is a problem and that problem has multiple causes and faults, I agree.

But the problem is made exponentially worse by panic buyers and hoarding.  Remember all that "flatten the curve" stuff from last year?  Panic buying gasoline right now is the exact opposite of flattening the curve.  It's as if everybody started holding love-ins the month after COVID broke out.

 

I love you Duke, and I always will, but this is really silly. 
 

If I lock you in a room and pump out all the oxygen, will it be ok if I say you have no oxygen shortage?  There's plenty of oxygen- it's just in the wrong room. 
 

The Southeast has been experiencing fuel shortages at the pumps caused by panic buying. Period. 

The extra absurdity of this, and points to the fact that it's all panic.

Florida was experiencing 31% without gas (as shown above).

Florida gets NONE of it's gas from the pipeline! 

GameboyRMH said:

So apparently service was restored by...paying the ransom.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-13/colonial-pipeline-paid-hackers-nearly-5-million-in-ransom

Lovely.   That will certain discourage any future attacks....  

I remember there was a caller on CarTalk saying her husband is always absent minded about filling up the car so he started carrying a gallon in the trunk.

Of course that elicited a, "You're NUTSO!"

aircooled said:

The extra absurdity of this, and points to the fact that it's all panic.

Florida was experiencing 31% without gas (as shown above).

Florida gets NONE of it's gas from the pipeline! 

Not quite none, but close: https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/dont-panic-south-florida-gas-industry-expert-on-colonial-pipeline-hack/2449596/

SVreX (Forum Supporter) said:

Duke said:

SVreX (Forum Supporter) said:

Of course there is a gas shortage. Don't be ridiculous. Just because the cause was panic buying doesn't change the fact that there is a shortage of fuel. 

No, there isn't a shortage.  There is plenty of fuel supply.  It's just currently in the wrong places.

There is a problem and that problem has multiple causes and faults, I agree.

But the problem is made exponentially worse by panic buyers and hoarding.  Remember all that "flatten the curve" stuff from last year?  Panic buying gasoline right now is the exact opposite of flattening the curve.  It's as if everybody started holding love-ins the month after COVID broke out.

 

I love you Duke, and I always will, but this is really silly. 
 

If I lock you in a room and pump out all the oxygen, will it be ok if I say you have no oxygen shortage?  There's plenty of oxygen- it's just in the wrong room. 
 

The Southeast has been experiencing fuel shortages at the pumps caused by panic buying. Period. 

But let me alter your analogy a little to make it a little more realistic:

You lock me in the room but only pump out a little less than half the oxygen, and it will only be for a short time.

If I minimize unneccessary activity I will be perfectly fine, if a bit uncomfortable.  There will still be enough oxygen to get by until the air gets refreshed.  And it will get refreshed, because there is another room full of good air right on the other side of that wall.  There is no shortage oxygen; we're not on the moon.  It's just in the wrong place for little while.

But if I start doing jumping jacks, I'll be unconscious in short order.

This situation was always going to be uncomfortable.  It didn't have to be a crisis, except thousands of idiots started doing jumping jacks.

aircooled said:

Never under estimate the stupidity of the common American

Can't even divide this up by gender anymore, over the past 20 years it's been made painfully clear to me that modern Americans, as a group, are some of the stupidest people to have ever existed in human history.

Sure, individually, there's some smart ones, but a broken clock tells the right time twice a day.