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[AlohaDawg]

A-Cap, you make it sound like it is poor Golfhaus's personal fault. I am sure he has no price controls, much as he might like.

From the AP:
Gasoline can't go more than five MPH. Who'd have thought?

What the hell? We have gas here, there was never a problem, and it's selling for less than $3.50 a gallon today.

[pmcd9]

It's a localized problem.

[littlefallsmets]

Did... 'nev just insult my mom in Klingon?

[theinevitable]

it means "Happy New Year."

P'tagh!

[Arachno-capitalist]

A-Cap, you make it sound like it is poor Golfhaus's personal fault. I am sure he has no price controls, much as he might like.

I just find it very hard to conceive of tanker drunks driving a couple towns over to sell gas for $3 when they could sell it in his town for $5. Something is frustrating that system from taking place.

[Doc]

Maybe the people contracted to supply via the pipeline are a different company than the people contracted to supply via the trucks?
Presumably they think getting to nearly double their prices on remaining supplies will earn them more than organising a new supply line for a problem that will probably only last a week.

I'd also guess that it makes little difference to the people delivering the fuel how much the service stations get to sell it for, I can't imagine the suppliers vary their prices week to week (let alone day to day) the way servos do.

[jay-ell]

The gas shortage is statewide; it's not a matter of driving in from the next town.  Up here in Raleigh, we've been having on-again, off-again difficulties, stemming in part from people expecting a shortage and causing gas runs. 

I had to go to 2 stations yesterday before I found one with gas, and they were out of everything except mid-grade.  I was late to my kid's dentist appointment because of it.  I only put in 3 gallons because I am convinced that the shortage will end and prices will drop by the time I need to fill up again this weekend.  (Plus, it was $4.07 for mid-grade and I paid $3.83 for regular last week and the price jump made me a little ill.) 

[Golfhaus]

If I had price controls, it'd be $15 a gallon for everyone in NC except me, JL, and inev's parents. We'd have special cards with Ray on the front like that bank card he had.

The news tonight said 160,000 gallons were on the way to Charlotte. After some quick math, I can predict that will last about 45 minutes.

Granted, my math skills suck. But I think that's about right.

[lprkn]

The best thing about mental hunting is that there isn't any mental gutting, skinning, hanging, cleaning, cutting or wrapping; you can just skip straight to the mental eating, if you like.

Today I'm gonna lust after new mp3 players, because I filled my iPod. I will do this even though I don't have the money for a new player.

[Doc]

So yeah, I actually had to decide "belt hatchet or 8" folding bone saw" when setting up the pack.

Why not both? Two birds with one stone.

[theinevitable]

Why not both? Two birds with one stone.

More like... one bird with two stones?

[Doc]

More like... one bird with two stones?

Ding ding ding.

[Arachno-capitalist]

This weekend was the perfect storm of young alumni, rugby, construction equipment, legal documentation, and copious alcohol consumption.
Why did they leave the keys in the bulldozer?
After a meeting Friday, we started forming articles of incorporation. Then I bought a blackberry, can't wait to get it in the mail.
The future is looking better and better every day.

[wombat]

This weekend was the perfect storm of young alumni, rugby, construction equipment, legal documentation, and copious alcohol consumption.
Why did they leave the keys in the bulldozer?

Please don't tell me that no one had a camera.

[Arachno-capitalist]

Please don't tell me that no one had a camera.

Sadly there was no camera. However there is something awesome to be felt by meeting with attorneys all afternoon to form your "corporation" with friends and then just hours later hijack a bulldozer. One day that story can be told on a corporate retreat. "I tried to drive straight, but in reality, I was doing violently fast 360 turns until I hit a wall." The important thing is that we'll soon be a legitimate corporation and that I have a reason to own a blackberry.