RALEIGH, N.C. – The gas shortage that slammed the South over the weekend continued into Monday and Tuesday, with drivers across the region frantically trying to find pumps that were selling gasoline.
“I went to like six stations in Durham. I could not find any gas,” Stephanie Murriell told North Carolina’s WRAL.
Eventually she ended up in Raleigh, and along way the way saw four more gas stations out of gas. All total, she saw about 10 stations out of gas before she found one, an Exxon, that still had some.
“I even went on Facebook and posted on Facebook, ‘Please help me find gas in Durham and Raleigh,’ and this is the first place that I’ve come to that had gas.”
But the Exxon that did have gas was limiting customers to $10 gas purchases – and it ran out hours later.
“The people need gas. Everybody needs gas. We are almost out of gas. Too many stations here are out of gas,” Exxon station manager Jimmy Alkhateeb told WRAL.
The gas shortage throughout the South was sparked when the Colonial Pipeline – which carries gas from Texas to New Jersey — leaked more than 250,000 gallons of gasoline at a location in Alabama. The pipeline provides gas for around 50 million people.
One man who bought gas at the Exxon station, Jeff Hawkins, had stopped at two other places that did not have any gasoline. He had driven about 160 miles from Charlotte to Raleigh and said the $10 in gas “would not help me at all.”
“That would probably not even get me home,” Hawkins told the TV station.
It even has affected law enforcement. Durham County Sheriff deputies have been told not to let their cars idle when they could be shut off, the Raleigh News and Observer reported. The deputies fill up at county-owned pumps.
And when people do find gas, they have to wait in long lines for it. In Youngsville, North Carolina, Michelle Bowers told the newspaper she saw one station where the line was “20 cars deep.”
People, she said, are hoarding gas.
“I … got behind a man filling up 10 big gas cans. The big ones,” Bowers said. “I finally told the attendant directing traffic that what he was doing didn’t seem quite right, especially since they were telling people they were almost out.
“It even has affected law enforcement. Durham County Sheriff deputies have been told not to let their cars idle when they could be shut off,…”
No doubt that would save a life or two (NOT pig life), under the right circumstances.
“People, she said, are hoarding gas.”
They’d be better off hoarding food, water, and AMMO.
This is another manufactured event.
It takes about two weeks for fuel to be pumped the length of the pipeline.
The tank farms have to be built with the capacity of that time delay.
Trucking and trains have the capacity to make up for the shortfall.
Does anyone know people that work at the fuel tank farms and tell the readers if the tanks are still full and how fast they are being drained……. If at all?
I don’t know but somethings up, the Exxon refinery is shut down here in Torrance California because we had a very convenient power outage so they have to reboot their system. I read also that the refinery in whiting Indiana is offline for at least 3 weeks.
I grew up less than 5 miles from that facility. Most (80%, I read somewhere years ago) of the Napalm used in Vietnam was manufactured there by Dow Chemical, back in the 60’s. You can’t drive down Crenshaw Blvd. past it without breathing noxious fumes.
Not to mention that after the Sheriffs, Torrance pigs are some of THE worst in L.A. County.
Merely one more of the numerous reasons I live in Oregon now.
Wow, I never knew that but it figures. I’m working on getting the hell out of here. This place has been overrun with foreigners and fruit loops. I’d say everybody down here is f*cked up beyond repair.
That’s not the half of it. Part of that land used by Dow is where the Old Towne Mall was erected back in ’72. My younger brother worked at an aquarium shop there in the late 70s. There was already an unusually high (and steadily climbing) cancer rate among those who had worked there since the mall opened, or soon thereafter.
It’s been rumored that Dow buried a sh#t ton of toxic cr@p there. I believe it to be far more than mere rumor, even though they were never prosecuted, and likely never will be.
I grew up in Lawndale, btw. Right down the street from the golf course, Alondra Park, and El Camino College.
It still amazes me all the sh*t these as*holes still get away with. Small world though. I was at El Camino recently for welding certification. Was also up in Medford by the Rogue River at the beginning of August. As soon as we crossed the commie border of California, the depression set back in. Didn’t want to leave.
I moved all my stuff into storage in Corvallis in Jan., 2015. I quit my job of 12 1/2 yrs. and moved to OR in the middle of Feb., then moved here (Sweet Home) in March.
Never, EVER going back.
For ANY reason.
I LOVE THIS PLACE!!! MOUNTAINS, TREES, RIVERS & LAKES!!!!!
I can respect that. I would’ve been there already but I have 2 little kids so I move a bit slower. Soon enough brother out of here!
Honestly, Scott, I’m not attempting to rub it in or anything… it’s just that I’ve been here long enough now that I’ve gotten used to the incredibly slower pace, and regardless of family & friends there, it’s inconceivable to me to go back to that madhouse ever again.
No, I agree 110%. Honestly the only thing stopping me is a job. I’ve been looking in Oregon, Montana and Idaho for a couple of months now. My wife is cool with it, just have to find it. Human beings aren’t supposed to live like this. I literally can feel the tension in the air from all the pieces of sh*t walking around……or maybe it’s all the electro magnetic frequencies, can’t confirm that one yet.
Once I came to an understanding of the full implications of Agenda 21, I realized that although the time may be of their choosing, the option of choosing the place was mine.
I believe I’ve chosen wisely.
Hey, don’t worry about all of that. Let’s talk about that ridiculous pressure cooker explosion that happened in NYC. That’s way more important. (Sarcasm)
Unfrigginbelievable……
I heard that!
Lol.