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Asheville is out of gas, this has went on for a long time now and they are saying there will be gas next week and that is what we heard last week. This is madness. Things are out of control, cops, fighting, 1/2 mile gas lines for what little gas is available. Local news video. local news I remember the 70s and it wasn't this bad then. Lots of retirees and tourists in this area seeing ths sights and buying up the gas and working folks can't even make it to work now. I ride a motorcyle some times (all the time now) that is a small 200cc one and gets 80 mpg and so I got enough to last me a week or so and then I will be out of gas. This is unreal. Cops escorting fuel trucks and lines of cars following the trucks to where they dump. Reminds me of that movie "road warrior"
 
Plenty here. Price has dropped over the last couple of weeks too.
 
What is weird is that some places are totally unaffect while others are completely out for the most part and if someone does have it the prices are outragious. They aer investigating one place in a nearby town who had plenty of gas for $5.59 a gallon. Still, people would gladly pay that right now for some gas and piece of mind.
 
Utah is a bit of a strange market, as we have our own refineries here locally (I used to work at one) and even some local sources of crude -- rest comes from Canada. Our prices are dropping as well. I'd send you some if I could.
 
Plenty in PA too.
 
Plenty in OK too at $3.19 but nearly all has 10% ethanol.
 
Here in NY we had the "IKE Spike" for a day. Went up, then down, then down, then down. I barely noticed. Paying #3.63 which is still wrong.
 
Drove to downtown Waynesville this morning and of the six stations along the way, only the two Exxons had fuel and both had plenty of cars waiting in line to fuel. This evening, drove the same route and only the Enmark had fuel. Their lot was full and the auto parts store next door was full of waiting cars. Kind of crazy. Worked at a bed a breakfast on a fountain tonite. Guest said they came through Candler, (between us and Ashville). He said they saw two fist fights at a gas station.
My son in Charlotte had a hard time finding fuel tonite as well.
 
hilsideser said:
Drove to downtown Waynesville this morning and of the six stations along the way, only the two Exxons had fuel and both had plenty of cars waiting in line to fuel. This evening, drove the same route and only the Enmark had fuel. Their lot was full and the auto parts store next door was full of waiting cars. Kind of crazy. Worked at a bed a breakfast on a fountain tonite. Guest said they came through Candler, (between us and Ashville). He said they saw two fist fights at a gas station.
My son in Charlotte had a hard time finding fuel tonite as well.
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Hey, a local. I live in arden about 1/2 mile from the city limits and work in Hendsersonville (there now on the night shift). No gas anywhere on Highway 25. There was one station with gas in mills river and there wer people pulled off in the grass on side the highway for at least a half mile. Its crazy.
 
Kim - if you can find any gas, this Saturday is the British Car Club of Western N.C. car show. It's in Hendersonville this year. I'd like to go but will have a brother in from Fla and a brother in-law in from Wilmington, so can't go. (probably won't have any gas anyway...)
https://www.autumninthemountains.org/aitm_2008/index.html
 
hilsideser said:
Kim - if you can find any gas, this Saturday is the British Car Club of Western N.C. car show. It's in Hendersonville this year. I'd like to go but will have a brother in from Fla and a brother in-law in from Wilmington, so can't go. (probably won't have any gas anyway...)
https://www.autumninthemountains.org/aitm_2008/index.html
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I work just a few miles from Jackson park in Hendersonville, but right now I am on 12 hour night shifts and that looks to continue that way though the weekend. Its a long story but it all has to do with the refineries shutting down and shortages of material at my work and so now a major rebuild of some equipment is going on and I got the short straw and got the night shift. I might swing by there and look at the cars on the way in to work if it works out. Hey, there are saying now that at least 5 and as many as 10 days before gas in any amount will be coming into the area. Not hardly any coming from Spartanburg where almost all the gas comes from. Hess is the only ones getting any fuel and it is coming in from Wilmington. The one on 25 going into biltmore sold out in 3 or 4 hours. They went through 18,000 gallons in that time. That was 3 trucks full. There is talk of bringing in the national guard to keep order at the gas stations when the fuel comes in. What a mess. A friend in Erwin, TN said they got plenty over there at a decent price. It might be worth a trip to get some gas to hold us over. If I do that, I am going to take a lot of gas cans.
 
Plenty in Puerto Rico and just dropped below
$4.00 a gallon for regular. I paid $6.50 a
gallon last week when I accidentally pulled
up to a full service pump. The guy had $20
pumped in before I got to the cashier and
realized my error.

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That is what I don't understand. Some areas are completely unaffected while almost every gas station in my area has been out of gas since the 13th or before. You would think that there would be some way to truck some gas in from elsewhere. I saw a lady who looked to be about 60 and in line for gas and the car ran out of gas and she was trying to push it. I was stuck in traffic and could not help her. The news keeps saying we are panicking and we need to be patient, when people are out of gas what are they supposed to do in a rural area? Things are actually much worse now than they were a week ago. People were told that in a week or so the supply would be back to normal, and its not and now they don't believe a word and just want a tank of gas. Now they are saying next week. We didn't have it near this bad after Katrina hit and it was never this bad in the 70s during the opec embargo and rationing.
 
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