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originally posted by: tigertatzen
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.
I'm leaning that way too, but I'm staying alert...too many crazy events one on top of the other lately, and it feels sketchy.
Out of curiosity, if this were to actually become a full blown crisis situation across the south, do you think that would be sufficient cause to suspend the election?
originally posted by: SentientCentenarian
Let me know when they cancel NASCAR and all the football games. I've always wondered how much energy is squandered to watch race cars drive around in circles added to all the people driving to and from the games...
originally posted by: FamCore
a reply to: LanceCorvette
I'm not, but who really is? Most people who are saddled with debt and expenses couldn't afford to adequately prepare for such scenarios. I assume many people would also probably be screwed if SHTF
originally posted by: Reverbs
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.
the pipeline that ruptured in Alabama feeds NC SC Georgia... etc all the South Eastern States. Brings it straight from the Gulf coast where the USA has most of it's refineries that turn oil into gasoline. Fun Fact Gasoline is our biggest export. Many people don't know that. So imagine a pipe like a faucet always pouting this gas way closer to us, but now it has to be trucked in from much further away.. Probably trucked from texas but I'm hugely ignorant of what pipelines around here are or whatever but that is a long drive from Texas.
Gas prices seem to be unusually higher in Western North Carolina. I lived in Boone for two years. I think it's more out of the way or inconvenient somehow to get there. It is in the mountains afterall.. Food prices are a bit higher too. Gas stations in my hood chapel hill are running out.. Chapel Hill is like middle of the State. I commented in the car earlier it was odd a gas station said the gas was 0.00 dollars.
This escaelated quickly.....
And with the OTHER pipeline having issues being finished..
Who knows if there is a connection? I surely don't.
I walk everywhere I go so who knows maybe I'll get extra hours at work cause I'll be one of the only people who has the ability to walk a few miles..
We shall see.
So yea Chapel Hill running out of gas at a few stations.. I'll see if any local news is out. try to.
Sort of local Raleigh is 30 minutes east.
North Carolina stations run out of gas (WRAL news)
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: OrderOfIntent
Just spoke with a few friends in Asheville. Confirmed...there is no gas and the 'talk of the town' is a question as to whether or not this is somehow connected to Obama soon residing there. There is a rumor (according to a friend of mine), that Obama and family will be moving there very soon. Not sure about the validity of this or whether or not it is common knowledge...just thought that it was worth mentioning.
originally posted by: OrderOfIntent
Just spoke with a few friends in Asheville. Confirmed...there is no gas and the 'talk of the town' is a question as to whether or not this is somehow connected to Obama soon residing there. There is a rumor (according to a friend of mine), that Obama and family will be moving there very soon. Not sure about the validity of this or whether or not it is common knowledge...just thought that it was worth mentioning.
originally posted by: rickymouse
I suppose that gas will jump up fifty cents a gallon here, even though it doesn't effect us at all. What a scam these things can be.