[MnGirl]

and this is no joke (although, I know some of you guys will turn into that).
No gas in the Villages at either of the gas stations on 466. Yup, you heard it right, better start using your golf cart!

[Sidney Lanier]

Yes, I went out to get gas on my way to the post office and was more than a little surprised to find that neither station on CR-466 had gas. I asked at the Oxford P.O. where to go, and the clerk sent me to the CITGO station a couple of miles south on 301 (toward Wildwood) where I filled up with regular at $3.63/gallon with no problem. Strange....

[MnGirl]

I think they have gas, and they're holding it back, to sell it for Mondays prices!
What a rip.

[billethkid]

The Shell was out when I went to get gas this morning. The other one had lines to the curb.
Went to Wildwood (I don't buy Chavez gas!). Interestingly the only station closed down for "out of service" was Shell (again).
No problem at the other stations except some were high like $3.85.

I guess if there is one thing I do not like about TV, it is the hair trigger too many residents have. I knew when I saw the words FL...gas...shortage...in the morning's happy paper there would be a rush...and there was...and the operators here play the game for us!!!!

BTK

[graciegirl]

Shell station is out of gas is one scary sentence!

[renielarson]

Yesterday afternoon one of our teacher's father called to tell her that he was in a nearby town and the gas was priced at $6.10. The teacher became frantic and told everyone she could. Well, in a small town like the one I teach in word travels fast and when I left school an hour later, the 3 stations had cars 20 deep lined up waiting to fill up.

I had no choice but to fill my tank since I let my needle drop below 1/4. However, I decided to keep traveling the 25 miles home and waited until I found a station with only 3 cars lines up with a price of $3.91. I'm thankful I filled because today the prices are close to $4.20 a gallon! I didn't fill up because I feared the prices or shortages...I filled up because I had to.

The shortage of gas will be a result of PANIC!

[JohnN]

I tried 3 stations on highway 27 - across from Lowes , out of gas. By the post office, one was out of gas and just as I was filling up, it ran out of gas too.

[Hoosiervillager]

We're on our way back to TV. Drove from Indiana to north of Atlanta today. We saw gas prices today ranging from 3.799 to 4.599. Only saw one station out of gas - I believe it was in TN.

[Russ_Boston]

Is this a local situation? We seem to have plenty of gas up here in MA. The average price is around $3.39

[billethkid]

There is plenty of gas here to. The running out is being caused by the panic buying over such a short period. One of the transportation adminiters from the fuel terminal said there is no shortage. They are dispatching tankers as usual but not as fast as stations are being run dry. And there are "stories" of those that have not run out but have bagged their pumps waiting to raise prices on Monday.....rumor!

BTK

PS also indicates we can cause an increase in inventory in a short time if we all don't buy gas over a period of time!!!!

[Mikitv]

Here in Ark the gas rose yesterday by more than 30 cents a gallon, no reason just price gouging. At least our attorney general is investigating it. There were no runs on the gas stations even though we might get hit with some of Ike's rain and possible flooding in areas already hit by the last storm. The manager of one of the stations said corporate called them yesterday morning and told them to raise the prices, no reason.

[zcaveman]

I got a call yesterday to get gas because it is running out. Someone punched the panic button. There is plenty of gas in our area. Fortunately , I got gas on Thursday and that will last for two weeks.

[F16 1UB]

Originally Posted by Russ_Boston

Is this a local situation? We seem to have plenty of gas up here in MA. The average price is around $3.39

We have plenty too in northern KY. Yesterdays price 3.69 todays price 3.99 robbing :edit: And 20 years ago the price of gas didn't go up when hurricanes arrived.

[BUC]

I had to get gas in the boat on my way to the lake this morning. 3.99 a gallon several places were either out or just bagged all pumps but premium, go figure, but did manage to catch several bass, and had a good lunch at a little hole in the wall diner that has great home cooked food. So it was a good day.

[rdmills]

They raised the price of gas at the circle K on 466 by 24 cents in less than 12 hours. I thought that it was kind of strange since they didn't have low or middle octane gasoline. The finally went dry. I watched as folks put high octane gasoline in golf carts !!!!!The whole industry is one big rip off.