While Gramps Cuts & Runs, There's a GAS CRISIS in the South !

[K Gardner]

Hey.. McCain, yeah you.. with your back to us, slithering off. Sure, there's a crisis - a big one; but there's "little" ones goin' on too. Our kids may not be able to get to school down here. We got people driving across state lines to get gas. And that's the LEAST of our problems. You can't deal with us, down here? It's too much for you? If ya can't walk and chew gum at the same time, mister, just go away and stay away. We don't need ya, you worthless lump. We'll take the guy who stands up, stays up and shows up...Obama.


Knoxville Pilot Sends Gas to NC So Schools Can Stay Open

Pilot Travel Centers will ship gasoline from a storage facility in Knoxville into Western North Carolina, at the request of U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler. The shipment will allow public schools in North Carolina to remain open.

David Dobbins, Pilot's director of supply and distribution, said a tanker truck holding 8,000 gallons of fuel will leave a Middlebrook Pike storage facility and head to Asheville on Thursday. This gas will fuel the area's school buses.

Dobbins said Shuler's office is coordinating the arrangements.

"There is virtually no gas in Western North Carolina," said James A. Haslam III, CEO of Pilot. "Congressman Shuler contacted us and said schools would have to be shut down because there is not enough gas to run the school buses. We agreed to help by sending over some of the gas we have here in Knoxville."

Dobbins said that Pilot will send another 8,000 gallons into the same area on Friday if necessary. He said sending the gas to North Carolina will not cause Pilot to run out of gas at its Knoxville locations.

Congressman Shuler, a former star quarterback for the University of Tennessee football team, has a close relationship with Pilot and the Haslam family.

Meanwhile, Tennesseeans Drive to Ky to Fill Up

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) -- The price at the pump may be better than it was a week ago, but local gas retailers say they are still dealing with low supply, and it’s not just a problem in East Tennessee.

Other major cities across the Southeast are struggling with gas supplies.

Kentucky is the only neighboring state with a decent supply for their pumps. Alabama, Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee are still operating on a tight supply.

Kentuckians Wonder Why So Many Cars from TN Crowd Their Pumps

A normal day for us is about 12,000 gallons," says Franklin Marathon manager Billy Perry. "Friday we pumped 27,000. So, this additional traffic had to come out of Tennessee."

Could that many customers be coming from Tennessee? With an eye on our watch, we took note of every car license plate that drove into this Marathon for five minutes. The final tally? 46 vehicles stopped in over five minutes. 32 of them were from Tennessee. According to Marathon manager Perry, that many new drivers could eventually take it's toll. "Those folks being out of gas in Nashville are coming here, they could very easily run our supply out," Perry explains. But this Marathon's doing fine for now, meaning these drivers don't have to add more miles to their search for gas just yet.

I'm just glad I can find gas in Kentucky cause I'd be sitting at home watching TV if I couldn't," driver Harry Rooks concludes.

[peace13]

1. Interesting. This is how its works and there is surprisingly little in the news about this.

We were in TN on Sunday just a day or so after Ike hit Texas. Ike who had slowly crept across the Gulf for how many days? Sunday morning gas was $5.49 a gallon with a $35 dollar limit per car. They were hitting the consumer even before the supply was down.

I guess I am not surprised that there is so little on the news about the shortage. In Ohio we were without power, phones and cable for almost a week from the same storm. When we got power back I got online to see what was being said about the storm damage and there was very little. We have a full system communication failure in this country. This does not bode well as we slip closer to Martial Law. But hey...if a little white girl goes missing we will know every detail. Go figure. Thanks for posting these. I feel for you.

[K Gardner]

2. How ironic.. my son lives in Ohio and was out of touch with us for days, I had no idea why. Turns

out, there was a horrible storm (post-Ike) in Ohio, they had no power, the wind blew his cell phone out of his hand and it broke, LOL.. and I had no idea what was going on because there was NO television coverage.

Unfortunately, I'm right with ya fearing the worst is sneaking up on us. Something is up, something just not quite right in the "ethers". I'm not the only person I know feeling this way :-)

:hi:

[K Gardner]

3. Kicking for the day crowd.