Yes, we who got about an inch of rain out of Harvey up here in the D/FW area and now under the hammer. The strike is no repeat no gasoline. All the stations are closed, bags on the pumps, no gas to pump. Just around the corner from us is a Magellan Pipeline terminal. No gas is flow up from the south. I guess we will be getting gas trucked in from Tyler, there is a refinery there. There is yet another one a Long View and still another at Mansfield all of them between Dallas and Shreveport. I am sure there is a refinery at Shreveport too. There are bunch of refineries in Louisiana but that is once again up stream from us. And I am sure there is one at Oklahoma City. But all these facilities are set up to flow one way - up the east coast.
The President has released oil out of the strategic oil reserve to Lake Charles refineries. And I am sure the problem will not be so bad in Louisiana as in Texas. Got to get those refineries back on line now, if not tomorrow. The whole D/FW area will slowly collapse and come to a stand still.
It happened over night. And I am sure by tomorrow we will see cars on the side of the road that have run out of gas. These people will not know what to do. They will panic.
Gouging has already started. Gas stations still open are only taking cash. That means no audit trail to deal with and thus the prices will be hiked way beyond the real number. I hope they get caught and in Texas there is big time fines like up to $250,000 per incident. It is designed to teach a hard lesson. There is always some dope who thinks he can get away with it and will get caught. People will cheer and boycott his business in the future. A really stupid mistake.
I got 10.62 gallons for $33 dollars. The idiot let me use a credit card so there will be an audit trail and believe me I will file a complaint. And I hope the jerk gets fined big time. Put him out of business.
Harvey has struck us too.
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