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Claire Oh Nette

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20. Drove from WV to south of Asheville Monday.

Reply to 2naSalit (Reply #2)

Tue May 11, 2021, 09:53 PM

May 2021

It's not a shortage. It's a temporary distribution disruption.

Drove from Parkersburg to Asheville area, through WV, KY, VA, TN and NC. The only place with gas lines backing up ten and twelve cars deep into oncoming traffic, creating accidents and bigger clusters is...NC. Prices were stable on both ends of the trip, with maybe 10¢ increase.

Station near my house backed up, but Sam's across town had less than ten cars total, and was still $2.69 at 10 this morning.

The idiots topping off and bringing their 55 gallon drums are might be overreacting.

YMMV

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Gas lines in Eastern NC. [View all] littlemissmartypants May 2021 OP

It is a cyber attack on the gas line up the whole eastern coast. katmondoo May 2021 #1

Due to the pipeline hack last weekend... 2naSalit May 2021 #2

Drove from WV to south of Asheville Monday. Claire Oh Nette May 2021 #20

You have year old gas in your car ? dweller May 2021 #3

Gas stabilizer is a good additive to use when you know you will be doing that Shermann May 2021 #7

Oh-k everyone! OhZone May 2021 #4

Gas is not stable enough to leave in your car for over a year... RegularJam May 2021 #5

I went grocery shopping at the Pig this afternoon in Maysville NC. marie999 May 2021 #6

It's a shortage mostly caused by the panic Shermann May 2021 #8

One frantic text is not a statistically significant data point of a fuel industry conspiracy. brooklynite May 2021 #9

I live in east NC and there are lines all over dsc May 2021 #16

Might be a local distribution problem. No issues in NY. brooklynite May 2021 #18

North Myrtle Beach SC No Gas tinymontgomery May 2021 #10

This message was self-deleted by its author hamsterjill May 2021 #11

Colonial pipeline ransomware attack and Texas refineries are only at half capacity due to ice storm. haele May 2021 #12

I'm in eastern NC too XanaDUer2 May 2021 #13

There is no gas shortage, just hoarding obamanut2012 May 2021 #14

And hoarding creates the shortage. JustABozoOnThisBus May 2021 #15

Ok, but they're leaving the TP alone, right? Xavier Breath May 2021 #17

scary to need to go somewhere and no gad... hope you get some Demovictory9 May 2021 #19

And there we have it... littlemissmartypants May 2021 #21

Gas Supply Panic littlemissmartypants May 2021 #22

Awww. Thanks! I added the two other threads I posted on the issue. Rhiannon12866 May 2021 #24

Three news threads on the gas shortage which explain the issue: Rhiannon12866 May 2021 #23