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I'll be driving from Pennsylvania to Boston on Friday to see my son. For the members that live in Connecticut and Massachusetts... are you experiencing any long gas lines or stations without gas?
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Any gas shortages in CT. or MA?
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Rhodyspit75
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The price has ticked up a few cents but I haven’t seen any shortages.
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Thanks for your post. I'm more concerned about being able to find gas on the way up and on the way back home.
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No shortages or lines here in central or eastern Connecticut. Prices up about 5 to 10 cents per gallon over the last week.
(Scary to think that hoarders can often create shortages all by themselves, especially when videos of lines start popping up on Facebook, YT,etc ...)
(Scary to think that hoarders can often create shortages all by themselves, especially when videos of lines start popping up on Facebook, YT,etc ...)
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Social media unfortunately can really help fuel shortages - the panic of a shortage for (pick a product) spreads like wildfire.
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I remember Johnny Carson, of course, but I don't remember him causing a toilet paper shortage (but I do remember a more recent toilet paper shortage caused by people hoarding TP in response to COVID - which I never understood).
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We didn't have any such shortage (of course I think the paper manufacturers have a special "sand-paper" blend just for the military 
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Ah - 1973. No wonder I don't remember it - I was in the middle of Tech School in Biloxi Mississippi learning to repair the NORAD SAGE computer system. We were rather preoccupied with things other than late night TV
We didn't have any such shortage (of course I think the paper manufacturers have a special "sand-paper" blend just for the military )
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Hey, this thread is about combustion and now it’s morphed into exhaust products 
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Either way, it's about gas...Hey, this thread is about combustion and now it’s morphed into exhaust products
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I'll bet you've been looking for an excuse to use that emoji!Hey, this thread is about combustion and now it’s morphed into exhaust products
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On July 1, 1941, a requisition was submitted for 150 rolls of toilet paper by an officer aboard the submarine USS Skipjack (SS-184). As the boat patrolled the Pacific, the requested item never arrived with other supplies. In March 1942, Lieutenant Commander James Coe took command of the Skipjack. As Coe settled into his new role, he no doubt learned of the dire situation. On June 19, Coe received a canceled invoice for 150 rolls of toilet paper. The request was the original from July 1941 and was stamped “cancelled-cannot identify.” Coe wrote a response that is famous within the Navy today.
His letter read:
USS SKIPJACK
June 11, 1942
From: Commanding Officer
To: Supply Officer, Navy Yard, Mare Island, California
Via: Commander Submarines, Southwest Pacific
Subject: Toilet Paper
Reference: (a) USS HOLLAND (5148) USS Skipjack req. 70-42 of 30 July 1941.
(b) SO NYMI Canceled invoice No. 272836
Enclosure: (1) Copy of cancelled Invoice
(2) Sample of material requested.
1. This vessel submitted a requisition for 150 rolls of toilet paper on July 30, 1941, to USS HOLLAND. The material was ordered by HOLLAND from the Supply Officer, Navy Yard, Mare Island, for delivery to USS Skipjack.
2. The Supply Officer, Navy Yard, Mare Island, on November 26, 1941, cancelled Mare Island Invoice No. 272836 with the stamped notation "Cancelled---cannot identify." This cancelled invoice was received by Skipjack on June 10, 1942.
3. During the 11 Âľ months elapsing from the time of ordering the toilet paper and the present date, the Skipjack personnel, despite their best efforts to await delivery of subject material, have been unable to wait on numerous occasions, and the situation is now quite acute, especially during depth charge attack by the "back-stabbers."
4. Enclosure (2) is a sample of the desired material provided for the information of the Supply Officer, Navy Yard, Mare Island. The Commanding Officer, USS Skipjack cannot help but wonder what is being used in Mare Island in place of this unidentifiable material, once well known to this command.
5. Skipjack personnel during this period have become accustomed to use of "ersatz," i.e., the vast amount of incoming non-essential paper work, and in so doing feel that the wish of the Bureau of Ships for the reduction of paper work is being complied with, thus effectively killing two birds with one stone.
6. It is believed by this command that the stamped notation "cannot identify" was possible error, and that this is simply a case of shortage of strategic war material, the Skipjack probably being low on the priority list.
7. In order to cooperate in our war effort at a small local sacrifice, the Skipjack desires no further action be taken until the end of the current war, which has created a situation aptly described as "war is heck."
J.W. Coe
His letter read:
USS SKIPJACK
June 11, 1942
From: Commanding Officer
To: Supply Officer, Navy Yard, Mare Island, California
Via: Commander Submarines, Southwest Pacific
Subject: Toilet Paper
Reference: (a) USS HOLLAND (5148) USS Skipjack req. 70-42 of 30 July 1941.
(b) SO NYMI Canceled invoice No. 272836
Enclosure: (1) Copy of cancelled Invoice
(2) Sample of material requested.
1. This vessel submitted a requisition for 150 rolls of toilet paper on July 30, 1941, to USS HOLLAND. The material was ordered by HOLLAND from the Supply Officer, Navy Yard, Mare Island, for delivery to USS Skipjack.
2. The Supply Officer, Navy Yard, Mare Island, on November 26, 1941, cancelled Mare Island Invoice No. 272836 with the stamped notation "Cancelled---cannot identify." This cancelled invoice was received by Skipjack on June 10, 1942.
3. During the 11 Âľ months elapsing from the time of ordering the toilet paper and the present date, the Skipjack personnel, despite their best efforts to await delivery of subject material, have been unable to wait on numerous occasions, and the situation is now quite acute, especially during depth charge attack by the "back-stabbers."
4. Enclosure (2) is a sample of the desired material provided for the information of the Supply Officer, Navy Yard, Mare Island. The Commanding Officer, USS Skipjack cannot help but wonder what is being used in Mare Island in place of this unidentifiable material, once well known to this command.
5. Skipjack personnel during this period have become accustomed to use of "ersatz," i.e., the vast amount of incoming non-essential paper work, and in so doing feel that the wish of the Bureau of Ships for the reduction of paper work is being complied with, thus effectively killing two birds with one stone.
6. It is believed by this command that the stamped notation "cannot identify" was possible error, and that this is simply a case of shortage of strategic war material, the Skipjack probably being low on the priority list.
7. In order to cooperate in our war effort at a small local sacrifice, the Skipjack desires no further action be taken until the end of the current war, which has created a situation aptly described as "war is heck."
J.W. Coe
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Thanks for the suggestion, my wife has Gas Buddy on her phone. I was hoping google maps would have something relating to the gas shortage but I didn’t see anything on there.
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I love Gas Buddy
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I should post up the pic I took this morning. Went with my dad down to the river for some fishing and the Mississippi River north of Memphis is wall to wall barges, pushed up against the bank. A lot of them are gas oil barges. Memphis Bridge is shut down, they found a crack in it. Not allowing any traffic over it or under it. Insane and definetly not helping the issue.
