[TheForge] OT--Gas prices, gas shortages, price gouging?

Sat Sep 13 12:13:08 EDT 2008

It was around $4 when I wne to work last night, not sure where it's at now.

--- On Sat, 9/13/08, Rob Fertner <rfertner at cox.net> wrote:

> From: Rob Fertner <rfertner at cox.net>
> Subject: RE: [TheForge] OT--Gas prices, gas shortages, price gouging?
> To: "'Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA'" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Saturday, September 13, 2008, 9:49 AM
> Crap, today it's up to $3.59
> 
> Rob
> 
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> In Wichita, KS gas jumped 10 cents to $3.49 today.
>  
> Rob
> 
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> [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of
> Washington, Aubrey O.
> Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 2:33 PM
> To: Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA
> Subject: RE: [TheForge] OT--Gas prices, gas shortages,
> price gouging?
> 
> Here in Norman, OK the 7-Eleven jumped from $3.29 to $3.39
> last night.  I
> guess I still don't have much to complain about.
> 
> Aubrey
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> [theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On
> Behalf Of Jim Beard [regionalchaos at gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 12:37 PM
> To: blakkpawss at yahoo.com; Blacksmithing List Sponsored by
> ABANA
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] OT--Gas prices, gas shortages,
> price gouging?
> 
> We haven't had any run on gas out in Oregon.  We've
> been staying
> around 3.75-3.80 a gallon for a while.
> 
> Jim
> Drain, OR
> 
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Jonathan Barnhart
> <blakkpawss at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > So, yesterday, in the tri-state area I live, the gas
> stations were told by
> their parent companies to raise gas prices 20-30 cents a
> gallon.  This was
> mainly due to the refineries shutting down for the incoming
> hurricane in
> Texas.
> >
> > Simultaneously some naer do wells decided to start
> rumors that the gas
> price, which had been anywhere between $3.40-$3.75 a
> gallon, would be going
> up to $5.00 overnight and possibly higher in the next week.
>  Several of
> these no goods also rumored that we would shortly run out
> of gas with no new
> shipments in the forseeable future.  This lead to a panic
> which caused
> people to run out to fill their tanks.  A lot of the rumors
> sited things
> like the 911 crisis and hurricane Katrina as examples of
> what would happen,
> since we experienced higher prices and some mild shortages
> then.  They also
> were saying that for some reason or another(I heard several
> and none of them
> really made sense to me) that it would be much worse than
> these previous
> times.
> >
> > With the high volume sales, gas stations started to
> raise prices due to
> demand.  Some even made it as high as the $5 mark.  I
> suspect some of these
> were gouging.  However, some were stations low on gas and
> waiting for
> shipments, that didn't want to have to pay to reprime
> their pumps.  Several
> places were full of cars and starting to line up.  But, it
> was starting to
> die down.
> >
> > Finally, as if this weren't bad enoughthough, a
> local T.V. station decided
> to report on the high traffic at the pumps as well as
> report the rumors.
> They didn't substantiate or debunk these rumors they
> just reported them as
> rumors.  Unfortunately, it appears as though the people
> watching focused on
> the bad parts of the rumors and missed the fact that they
> were just rumors
> and so the buying went on.  Once again the cars started to
> line up around
> the block at the stations.  Some places were much worse
> than others.  It
> seems as though some places kept their wits about them and
> took a wait and
> see attitude.
> >
> > It's my understanding that we now have several
> local stations that either
> are out of or low on gas.  So, regardless of wether or not
> the rumors were
> true, the panic mass of people have made them true.  I like
> to call it "self
> fulfilling prophecy" or "never underestimate the
> power of idiots in mass
> amounts".  Either way, if you knew about it yesterday,
> you were pretty much
> forced to buy, if you could afford to.  That way you
> wouldn't get stuck with
> the higher price that the idiots had scared up.
> >
> > Depending on who you talk to today, this is either a
> real thing that and
> we are going to run low or out of gas within the next week
> if the storm goes
> bad, or it's a hoax and this was only occuring here in
> southern Illinois,
> Southeast Missouri, and part of northwest Kentucky.  So,
> I'm asking people
> here if they have experienced anything similar in the last
> couple days and
> trying to make heads or tails of this insanity and idiocy.
> >
> >
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