So I haven’t written about the gas shortage because it doesn’t affect me. This is one of those times when I’m almost happy that my truck got stolen.
Yesterday, I was driving my friend’s truck and I watched her gas hand go down on the trip from her house to mine. I was amazed. She called while I was on my side of town and asked if I could find gas. I drove by gas station after gas station. No prices on the signs. No cars pumping. Deserted.
Finally I made it to the QT on Sidney Marcus. They had people directing traffic to get to the pumps. There was a news crew filming this site. On the news, some of the proprietors discussed how they were putting $30 limits on the amount of gas each owner could get. I have to wonder how people with pickups and SUV’s can even make it through to the next day.
I feel like this is historic. I never thought I’d witness a shortage of anything in my lifetime.
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the world’s going mad …
i’m in africa, we’re used to shit like that, but when it hits the first world …
that’s amazing…i saw something about it in a photojournalist’s piece last week, but I didn’t know it was that bad…
They caught us unprepared. You have to realize that GA doesn’t have much of a coast. So it’s much easier for the states around us to get gas and for us to get left out of the loop.
I can’t believe it’s still going on! Alysia was downplaying it today, but I think it’s more available out their way, plus T has no trouble getting it way out where she works in bumfuck.