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[DarienA]

Sorry if this has already been posted, first the article:

Some stations out of gas; others charge $6 a gallon
By James R. Healey, USA TODAY
Gas stations ran dry in pockets across the East, Southeast and Midwest on Thursday, and prices rocketed above $6 a gallon in isolated areas, as damage from Hurricane Katrina delayed shipments hundreds of miles from where it hit.

Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue declared a state of emergency to activate the state's price-gouging law after reports of gas priced up to $6.19 a gallon in the Atlanta area. "There's been a good bit of price rollback" since the declaration, state consumer affairs spokesman Bill Cloud says. "But we're still getting reports of people raising prices" by $2 or $3 a gallon. "People just decided to make a quick buck."

Gougers can be penalized up to $5,000 for each violation. "I'm going to ask the lawyers if we can call each gallon a violation," Cloud says. "Hey, when you price by the gallon ..."

The federal government is also taking complaints about gouging at gaswatch.energy.gov.

Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said Thursday that he might ration fuel and suspend state gas taxes. That's the first threat of official rationing since Katrina shut down nearly all operations in the energy-rich Gulf of Mexico. Pipelines from the gulf carry fuel thousands of miles to the East and Midwest. Those pipelines are closed or pumping slowly.

Officials say fears of shortages have led to panic buying. That, in turn, has created the shortages. "There's plenty of gas, but everybody and his brother went and filled up everything from SUVs to go-karts," Georgia's Cloud says.

Bob Sloan kept the price at $2.86 at his Oak Park, Ill., station and had so much business Thursday he had to assign an attendant to direct traffic. Most weren't his regulars, he says. "Maybe they'll come back."

And now the link:

http://gaswatch.energy.gov/

 

[themadcowtipper]

Someone report that gas station in Atlanta....that was over 5.00...And yet the oil companies are operating at a 20% profit....

 

[AlphaSnake]

Go sell some medicine bitches. I'm trying to get that OI-HOH!

 

[DarienA]

Go sell some medicine bitches. I'm trying to get that OI-HOH!

"U.N., you got a problem with that, know what you should do? You should sanction me. Sanction me with your army. OH! WAIT A MINUTE! YOU DON'T HAVE AN ARMY! I guess that means you need to shut the f*** up! That's what I'd do if I didn't have no army, I would shut the f*** up! Shut. The. F***. Up."


ROTFLMAO! I love that skit... I had it on my work computer but I can't find it now... damn... anyway another article, this one about international oil support.

Energy watchdog set to send gas to U.S
Fri Sep 2, 2005 9:01 AM ET

MADRID (Reuters) - The West's energy watchdog is preparing to release up to two million barrels a day of oil products to the United States and already has the backing of Spain and Germany in its effort to ease an energy crisis in the world's biggest consumer.

The United States is running short of fuel after Hurricane Katrina tore through the Gulf of Mexico this week, smashing into oil refineries and rigs and killing thousands of people.

The International Energy Agency, which coordinates emergency oil reserves in the 26 main industrialized countries, has stocks of badly needed gasoline held by governments in Europe and Japan. The United States government has only crude oil and a small stockpile of heating oil.

"We are waiting (for the IEA request) and I think we will tell them 'yes'. We are predisposed to accept the request," a spokesman at Spain's Industry Ministry said.

He said the IEA had contacted Spain informally on Thursday and indicated there would be a formal request for oil on Friday. Spain was hoping for a "balanced proposal" involving all IEA countries. These include Japan and EU member states.

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said Germany supported a U.S. request for the IEA to release reserves and that up to two million barrels per day for 30 days was under consideration.

A spokesman for Britain's department of trade and industry declined to comment on the UK position.

"We are negotiating as an IEA member state, not as an individual state."

The IEA has said it is talking to all its members and reviewing the damage inflicted by Katrina.

Itself a leading IEA member, the United States has said it will loan 8.5 million barrels of crude to three Gulf Coast refiners from its national Strategic Petroleum Reserve but holds no gasoline in state reserves.

The IEA last ordered an emergency release in January 1991 as a U.S.-led coalition ejected invading Iraqi troops from Kuwait.

 

[Kiriku]

US $6 per gallon is more or less what you pay in Sweden nowadays...and you would probably pay as much in the US as well, if you were forced to. And with the increasing number of cars in China for example, I'm sure it will only get worse.

 

[Straightballin]

ROTFLMAO! I love that skit... I had it on my work computer but I can't find it now... damn...

Its on comedy central.com but its missing a 1 or 2 parts of it at the end.

 

[AlphaSnake]

You gon' end up selling fake fur hats on TimeSquare. I know Gucci when I see it, nigga I'm rich.

Edit: The said thing is that this is all off the top of my head. I've watched those skits dozens and dozens of times. Even had them rolling in my car via PSP MPEG4.

 

[Zinista]

New Car Fuel Gauge..