while that sounds like a great band name, it is actually to reference the fact that i spent two hours in line to pay $4.70 a gallon for five gallons of gas and started two fights with line cutters today.

its like fucking mad max around here

holy shite

Two hours?

If you sell your car, quit your job and live under a bridge, you won't have to worry about things like this.

truth

And Nashville has some nice cozy overpasses, if I remember correctly

so theres that to look forward to

I topped off my tank today at $3.38 a gallon, cuz I was assuming that's the lowest it's gonna be for awhile.

fuck you, "topped off my tank"

literally saw two people run out of gas in the line and push their cars into the station

Yeah, we got gas last night...$3.39/gallon. No lines though. I'm amazed at the 2 hour lines. Damn. Couldn't you wait til the middle of the night?

I've seen coverage of this; something about a rumor that Nashville was running out of gas, which, of course, led to mass hysteria.

Are we in the 1970s?

there was a serious gas distributorship problem where trucks just werent coming to nashville. there were like 5/30 gas stations in my area that had gas and they all had lines around the block. cnn reported that nashvillians were 'following gas trucks around town to see where they stopped'

I've seen a ton of stations that are either out of gas or only have one kind of gas in the last three days; something's gotta give today or this work week is gonna be really short for a lot of people.

It's all fucking manufactured by complete stupidity.

I think we both know who is to blame here.

What the fuck is wrong with you people?

And from my favorite reading material, the comments section of the ajc:

$3.78 yesterday at Sam's Club with a long line and multiple people from Sam's managing the lines.

We had a guy with a baseball bat attack someone at a BP in South Asheville and the cops had to come and keep peace. Basically, there were about 5 or 6 places in the greater Asheville area that had gas yesterday. We just went from empty to half a tank in one car and called it even.

Today my wife found one of the stations that got a tanker and paid $4.01/gal to put 3 gallons in so her car could do a couple of trips to and from work.

We're in the same boat as Nashville. People are being stupid and essentially hordeing gas. There's folks that keep taking the car out every day to a station to 'Top Off' when they don't need to. We should be back to a regular supply in the next few days - or by the end of the week, at worst according to our officials here.

There's been a ton of messages that have gone out via the papers and the news media saying that you shouldn't get gas unless you are under a half tank. If people weren't so panic-y and a little more conscious of their actions, we wouldn't be in this situation in AVL. For all the hippies that live here, you wouldn't know it from the way the gas situation went down.

I was on empty yesterday so I got in a line (2 cars long, counting me) for gas for the first time in my life.

Paid $3.97 (not really that high for this area) for QT gas which I normally wouldn't use. I was going to just get a few gallons, but I just went ahead and filled up.

The whole thing does feel pretty silly, but I needed gas for this week and didn't want to have to worry about it later.

It was all created by a couple of news stories about a possible gas shortage. People panicked and pumped the tanks dry. It's been a never-ending cycle ever since. Until these gas stations quit gouging the price and limiting intake to 5 gallons per car, there will never be a reserve built up and this will continue for much longer than by the end of the week (as reported by our local news media).

My experience: I had been running on empty since mid-week when the panic started. Friday, I drove, in vain, to an out-of-the-way station (in hopes of finding the holy grail of gas supply, I guess?) that is ironically 1/2 mile from a huge BP oil supplier to find it empty. You can see the gigantic tank with BP logo from over a mile away.
Later that night, my roommate hears of the Exxon on 12th & Broadway getting a refill so he heads there and I give him $10 and 2 gal portable gas tank to fill up. He waits one hour in line and fills his car and my portable tank.

Cut to Saturday night and I need to drive across town to pickup femdisco (her car is out of gas), so I blow that 2 gal. pretty quickly.

Yesterday: Femdisco's father has been in KY all weekend so he stops in Bowling Green (little over an hour from Nashville) and buys 3 of the last 5 gal. portable gas tanks and fills them up to give to his 3 adult children who are all nearing empty. I get a gallon from him and that gets me to East Nashville last night around 7pm where I happen to be driving up to a Citgo station where I see a tanker pulling out after a fresh refill. It was truly organized chaos with the owners of the station gouging the price up to $4.50 a gallon for regular. They closed off one side of the lot to direct traffic. I got 5gal because most of my trips are short and within a 5 mile radius. Judging by reactions/behavior since this all started, I'm sure not everyone was considerate and by the time the clock struck Midnight, the tanks were dry.

I was lucky over the weekend that I live in a neighborhood where grocery and restaurants are within a few blocks, so I walked. I guess the only way I felt the pinch was on Friday night when I realized that 95% of gas in Nashville was gone. I couldn't help but feel trapped in my own neighborhood with my DTE (Distance to Empty) monitor reading 3mi. Luckily, a buddy had gas and picked a few of us up to go see his band play over in East Nashville. Femdisco lives in a suburb about 35min. from my neighborhood. Until last night, she hadn't been home since Wednesday when all of this started.


The latest from our local paper, replete with idiotic comments

LOL @ people that can't think ahead.

Wasn't an option Dalen. Gas supply ran dry mid-week last week and not everyone realized it. The only other option for those waiting in line on "empty" was to stand in line with a portable tank or have a friend or family member get gas for them.

Jesus stu.

Who run Bartertown?

Friday night, as I mentioned, I rode with a buddy to see his band play over in East Nashville (which is pretty much like East Atlanta crossed with the residential part of L5P). The 5 Spot, where the band played, was playing "Mad Max" on their TV. It was disturbingly funny and poignant.



It's just frustrating to watch play out the individualism of human nature/American way. It's like a social experiment. In the end, the mass public doesn't give a shit about their neighbor. Watching this unfold has been depressing and it just feels like a big deal in the current social spectrum.