09-22-2008, 09:36 PM
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Join Date: May 2001
Location: Music City
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Originally Posted by wyndhy
not really^^
it's not a shortage. it's spot shortages. if peeps would stop topping off every time they see somewhere has gas, instead of resuming the old routine of filling up when close to empty, this would not be happening.
and nat'l media lose interest in anything not life threatening, low-down, or political in 12 hours flat. ABC nightly couldn't care less anymore, so i don't know why some station a thousand miles away would care either.
AAA still cares.
scotz, i heard AAA is predicting this problem will last til the end of this week. dig in, dude.
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Also, my thinking edzachery  Got under my skin just a little Friday night, after stopping at the shortest line & waiting for a half hour, to see some a$$hole filling up a plastic gas can as well as his tank. I was at least decent enough not to top up my tank when My turn came, just got enough to get where I was going, & back home. And as usual, nice guys finish last...had to borrow wife's car for a Sat nite run.
I also heard on the local news tonite that exacerbating our problems in Nash is the fact that during the summer months, EPA requires that we use a special (read: expensive) blend of gas for meeting emissions standards, & all the fuel stations try to use up all there high priced stuff before the end of the summer. The end date for our special blend just happened to fall as Ike was tearing up jack on the Texas gulf...& just to twist the knife, we got maybe an inch of rain as Ike's remains petered out....
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