Nashville gas shortage?

Question

Ok, is it only Nashville that has this SEVERE gas outage? Do any other states have it? I dont see anything about it in national or regular news, only local news. My boss got mad at me for calling in due to an empty tank, anyone else suffering???

Answer 1

All this news about hoarding is complete BS. The Mid Tn market has had a pipeline that has been somewhere between 20% filled and EMPTY for over a week. Both of our cars are on empty, and so are everyone else's that I know. I have enough lawnmower gas to get me to work tomorrow, then it's the bike.



If folks are hoarding gas I'd like to know who they are. I find it a major security issue that TN is only one pipeline and 1 week away from no gas- that's on a GOOD day.

Answer 2

I have no idea, but I live in Nashville, TN as well and this gas issue is a big one and it seems as if no one is addressing it. I haven't heard anything on the news much except for a small segment about them saying that there are only 2 gas stations available in Nashville. This is really a big thing for us because we have to go to work, etc and it seems as if no one cares or is giving us a reason not to panic, so I feel your pain. As far as anyone else having issues, I don't know, but I did hear Atlanta were having similar problems.

Answer 3

Alabama, Birmingham to be specific, has had no shortages that I have heard of. Our prices spiked the day before Ike hit but Gov. Riley declared a state of emergency of the gas prices which allowed them to regulate how high they could go. The typical expensive places went from 3.55 to 4.20 in one day but we are down to 3.99 everywhere and I'm hoping it goes back to the 3.50's soon. How expensive is it at the places that have it?

Usually the reason for an outage is mass histeria where something happens that makes everybody afraid that gas is going to run out so everybody goes out and buys gas. There is no way for stations to be prepared for this so they do run out... until their next shipment. I understand temporary outages right before or after a hurricane but I'm not sure what would be causing a wide spread shortage now.

Its amazing how we are so dependent on such a liquidly changing in price and quantity thing like gas.

Answer 4

I live in Nashville too.

My parents live in a small town outside of Birmingham, AL and said they've had no shortages, just high prices $4.20-$4.65 but the prices have dropped back down to $4.09 and some cheapie places $3.55.



Between me and my husband we do alot of driving everyday to go to work. There was no gas yesterday to fill up and none this morning w/o waiting in a crazy line, which my husband didn't have time to do before work. We'll have to find something tonight and have to wait i suppose because we're on empty right now. And someone stole our 3 gal gas tank out of our backyard...but i guess we were stupid enough to leave it out :-(

I hope this ends soon!

Answer 5

There's really no shortage except that a rumor that Nashville was going to run out started gas hoarding. That led to stations running out. Although Nashville is receiving shipments of gas, supply cannot keep up with the demand. I had gas in my tank last Wednesday and saw empty stations at the Donelson Pk exit last Thursday. Friday, people started lining up at stations to fill up and that continued throughout the weekend. Nastiness and fights have been reported at pumps due to cutting in line and tempers flaring due to the wait. There was a drive by shooting into cars waiting in line for gas at one station.



Since then, many more have run out but it's all due to people trying to fill up and get extra cans filled so they wouldn't run out.

Answer 6

UPDATED: 10:26 PM EDT September 19, 2008



(CNN)

Call it a self-fulfilling prophecy: An estimated three-fourths of gas stations in the Nashville, Tennessee, area ran dry Friday, victim of an apparent rumor that the city was running out of gas.



"Everybody has just gone nuts," said Mike Williams, executive director of the Tennessee Petroleum Council.



He said he has no idea about the origin of a rumor that there was going to be no gas in Nashville. One reporter called him, saying she had heard that Nashville would be without gas within the hour, he said.



Hearing the rumor, drivers rushed to fill their cars and trucks.



CNN called 13 Nashville gas stations at random. Only two reported having gas, and one said it was almost out. The stations said they were being told they would not get more until Monday or Tuesday.



Katie Givens Kime, visiting from Atlanta, Georgia, was trying to fill up her tank for the trip home when she ran into trouble -- when she was already low on gas.



"We panicked and looked online," she said. "And holy cow, there is no gas in the city. ... It has definitely gripped the city, for sure."



One store clerk told her there was no way she could get gas to go back home, she said.



Williams said some drivers were following gas trucks to see where they were headed, and lines at some stations were a mile long. Fuel was continuing to enter the city, however, as pipelines were working and barges were coming in.



He likened it to Southerners rushing out to stock up on bread and milk when they hear it might snow. As stations began running low, the situation snowballed, he said.



One station reported selling as much gas Friday as it usually does in a weekend, Williams said.



The phenomenon seemed to be isolated to the Nashville area, he said.



Givens Kime said she found a station online that still had gas and waited more than an hour to pump it.



"People were freaked out," she said. A "renegade bunch" of men helped direct traffic to and from the pumps, even taking drivers' cash inside for them. She described people filling cans and other containers as well as cars.



She said that the station was not engaging in price gouging but that "emotions were running very high" among drivers.

http://m.cnn.com/cnn/archive/archive/detail/171328/full

Answer 7

No scarcity in michigan, only intense fees that are finally settling down, I agree although approximately no longer letting your tank get under a million/4, usually in what Icontinual gasoline easy does not come on till the tank is especially much empty i could say according to danger some gallons of gasoline are left whilst the low gasoline easy comes on. If its that undesirable although you should pay a a strategies better cost in case you come across any gasoline, only get out the hose and initiate off getting gasoline, i'm only kidding, yet typhoon Ike harm anybody for gasoline, optimistically you come across gasoline earlier your run out.

Answer 8

I live in a northern suburb of Atlanta. We have none. And I am almost empty.

Luckily (haha) my husband just got laid off from his job last week so he doesn't need to drive (more haha), but his tank is also almost empty.

We were just talking that we may have to send the kid to her school with no bus service in a taxi--really. So freaky :(

Answer 9

Tri Cities Tennessee to.Plenty diesel.

Answer 10

Kansas is doing okay, we haven't heard anything about shortages....