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originally posted by: Steak
Obama's Energy Policy is working just a well as his Health Care Plan.
originally posted by: LanceCorvette
Ostensibly because of the Alabama gas pipeline break, there's been a gas panic here in Asheville. All stations are out of gas, starting yesterday (9/17) and continuing today with no end in sight. The governor has declared a state of emergency so that deliveries can be made, not sure what one has to do with the other (something about restrictions on deliveries?). Local news article:
LINK TO NEWS ARTICLE
So far there's been *zero* explanation of why a gas pipeline break in Alabama would result in stations running out in Asheville, N.C. or why a state of emergency had to be declared, but from watching the news it seems like no one has even bothered to ask. There was no announcement that there would be shortages, only that prices may increase. All of a sudden folks were lining up.
Interesting factoid: the same thing happened almost to the date eight years ago, right before a major election. Coincidence?
Link to that article: Same Thing Eight Years Ago
Makes you think: just an announcement that prices may rise results in a run on gas, that's all it takes to start a panic. Do you have your survival supplies laid up?
originally posted by: LanceCorvette
a reply to: Mobius8
Which brings up a broader point: how can a pipeline break in just one pipeline result in an entire State running out of gas?
Don't get me wrong, I understand the factors: It's a weekend, probably no deliveries scheduled until Monday, and there's probably stores of it somewhere just waiting to be delivered.
But why the panic? And why Western N.C.? If they hadn't announced it, likely nobody would even have known and would have gassed up routinely, i.e., people wouldn't have felt the need to rush to "top off" their tanks. It may have resulted in a slight price increase but no one would have noticed.
I'm thinking, someone is trying to see what the minimum amount of information can be used to cause a panic.
North Carolina is one of about five states in the southeast dealing with the shortage after the pipeline, which carries fuel from the Gulf Coast to the Northeast and supplies gasoline for an estimated 50 million people on the east coast, was shut down Sept. 9 after it spilled about 250,000 gallons.
originally posted by: MisterSpock
originally posted by: NarcolepticBuddha
originally posted by: MisterSpock
Humans are such fools, it doesn't take much if anything to "heard" them around.
Oh I absolutely agree. I mean ...take away a resource used by everybody, daily, and it's like they all be actin' a fool when that highly necessary resource is gone.
What jackaninnies, right?
High five, bro!
Nothing was "taken away",. Also, this may come as a shock, but being able to drive around hundreds of miles a day is not a necessity for survival, most people are acting on nothing more than unnecessary fear and have actually created the scenario.
originally posted by: LadyGreenEyes
a reply to: LanceCorvette
False flag scare tactics - that's my first thought! Panic the people, cause unrest. This, on top of terrorist attacks, a military blunder, and a candidate reported dead? The crazy news just keeps coming.
originally posted by: LanceCorvette
a reply to: Informer1958
" What caused the accident in the first place? "
Could be another whole topic, but personally I find it very coincidental this happening right when pipelines are in the news that is, the South Dakota / Indian thing. My instinct says sabotage to prove how "unsafe" pipelines are.
originally posted by: PLAYERONE01
chances of this getting any airtime in the national cable MSM, people should realy work this on the social media platform and just see how facebook plays it. i'd like to see if the blanket it on social media.
A storm-related gas shortage in the Southeast that has left some places bone-dry and others with two-hour gas lines is expected to continue for at least another two weeks, energy experts and industry officials say.
The shortage began two weeks after Hurricane Gustav hit the oil-refining regions of the Gulf Coast on Sept. 1. Operations that shut down before that storm were just coming back online when Hurricane Ike hit, forcing another shutdown. The gas shortage, now in its third week, is particularly acute here in sprawling Atlanta, in Nashville in parts of the Carolinas and in Anniston, Ala.
"I don't go anywhere once I find some and get my tank filled up," says Alicia Woods, 32, who waited 45 minutes to fill up Sunday morning at a QuikTrip in Cobb County, Ga. "Going out, visiting friends, all that just has to wait. I have to keep my gas for getting back and forth to work."
Long gas lines continued to plague the Charlotte area over the weekend. Asheville, N.C., shut down some government offices Friday.