Station ran out of fuel!!!

[smalldisplacementfreak]

Ok, this fill up freaked me out. There was an SUV in the front fill station and I hear him telling his wife that they are out of fuel. He asks me and I said I'm filling, but it kicked off right around 10 gallons. But then after my tank kicked off I couldn't top off. So clearly the station has no more regular gas. Ack! Is this harbinger of things to come?

[Jay2TheRescue]

I don't think so. Just a poorly managed station that doesn't know how to order enough fuel.

-Jay

[RoadWarrior]

OMG that's TSHTF right there, grab your BOB and load up the BOV and head for the hills!

[theholycow]

That's happened to me many times before...

[smalldisplacementfreak]

Whew, thanks. It's a relief that many have lived through such thing before. Sorry for being overly excited about it but this was a first in a long time since the oil embargo in the 70s.

-SDF

[MrChoi]

happens all the time.

[mini-e]

The end time is here, for it is written....

Narrator: My life fades. The vision dims. All that remains are memories. I remember a time of chaos. Ruined dreams. This wasted land. But most of all, I remember The Road Warrior. The man we called "Max". To understand who he was, you have to go back to another time. When the world was powered by the black fuel. And the desert sprouted great cities of pipe and steel. Gone now, swept away. For reasons long forgotten, two mighty warrior tribes went to war and touched off a blaze which engulfed them all. Without fuel, they were nothing. They built a house of straw. The thundering machines sputtered and stopped. Their leaders talked and talked and talked. But nothing could stem the avalanche. Their world crumbled. The cities exploded. A whirlwind of looting, a firestorm of fear. Men began to feed on men. On the roads it was a white line nightmare. Only those mobile enough to scavenge, brutal enough to pillage would survive. The gangs took over the highways, ready to wage war for a tank of juice. And in this maelstrom of decay, ordinary men were battered and smashed. Men like Max. The warrior Max. In the roar of an engine, he lost everything. And became a shell of a man, a burnt out, desolate man, a man haunted by the demons of his past, a man who wandered out into the wasteland. And it was here, in this blighted place, that he learned to live again...

[Mr Incredible]

I read in a recent article that many stations are feeling the pinch of the high prices. They have to front the money for many thousands of gallons of fuel and then sell what they have. They must sell what they have to get the cash to buy more. The high prices make that difficult. More like a poor station than a poorly managed one. Of course, one could say both, too.

[bowtieguy]

several stations in my area have closed, including 2 chevrons. pitty 'cause one was very convenient for me to refuel and i believe it(chevron) to be a good quality gas.

my observation is that the other stations have increased in business as a result.

on another note, the shell station that i was using until recently, is about to reopen with new underground tanks. hopefully this will mean less chance of getting contaminants upon fueling up there.

[Erik]

A few months ago, a couple of stations closed in my area because their older electronic pumps could not be programed to charge over $4 per gallon. Rather than spending lots of money to install new pumps, they just quit.

[Lug_Nut]

Glass half empty...
or half full?

The station didn't have too little fuel... The SUVs used too much!

[KU40]

Bad station. We are not running out of gas. If we were, gas in my area would not be down to 3.35 at some stations, 60 cents less than just 2-3 months ago.

[Jay2TheRescue]

Agreed. I paid $3.389 today. We're not running out.

[Cruzedriver]

Originally Posted by Erik

A few months ago, a couple of stations closed in my area because their older electronic pumps could not be programed to charge over $4 per gallon. Rather than spending lots of money to install new pumps, they just quit.

The smart thing to do would have been to keep the prices at 4.00 and then say you have to buy something in our store... huge draw in due to the price and huge amount of sale of goods!! Then they make them buy something in the store that they get a huge profit margin on and bingo your still positive

[Mr Incredible]

Originally Posted by Jay2TheRescue

Agreed. I paid $3.389 today. We're not running out.

You bet!

OPEC Mission Statement - "To manipulate supply so that prices stay high."

[GasUser]

Originally Posted by Mr Incredible

You bet!

OPEC Mission Statement - "To manipulate supply so that prices stay high."

aka.....supply and demand.....haha

Anyway, If it was just that one station that was out then it was just them.

[02sl1]

I don't know about you guys, but in sc, there's been a huge gas scare over Ike. At every single gas station, there were 30+ cars in line to fuel up last night. I counted (in Irmo, a small suburb of Columbia) 7 gas stations out of fuel. I didn't buy into the scare, even though I go through gas like its nothing (driving at least 100 miles a day). The news is broadcasting gas going up to $5 a gallon, and some paranoid stations in sc have already raised prices based on suspicions that all the refineries will be damaged. This picture was taken in sumter, about 60 miles from columbia. The most expensive in columbia right now is 4.29. I'm still not buying into it. I'm going to ride the problem out, and wait until gas prices go back to normal (but still too high for me!).

[KU40]

Ugh I hate the media and all this speculation. We went through decades of hurricanes without much problem, but now all of a sudden since one closed some down a few years ago, EVERY hurricane is going to cause a catastrophic meltdown in our supply and the whole country is going to be out of gas. The hurricane could probably be headed for Canada and people would still think this.

I wish somebody would build another refinery or two for the first time in 30 years to alleviate all this stress. Maybe that would rid people of the hairline they think we walk in terms of gasoline production. Our refineries have typically shrank production to 60% or so every spring of the last 100 years to do regular maintanence, but only in the last couple years has this been a big problem (this extends to being limited by effects of hurricanes).